Tag: Application and Platform Security

‘We are not going to be successful driving adoption, sales of any of these things without our ecosystem of partners—the service partners, the MSPs, pretty much the entire constituency,’ says Bargav Balakrishnan, IBM vice president of product management for Power. IBM will incorporate its Spyre Accelerator in future Power products—including its Power11 system releasing next…

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IT systems are moving beyond the data center with edge computing and Internet of Things devices playing an increasingly important role in distributed data collection remote computing. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are two edge computing/IoT startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should be aware of. Spread Out!…

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For the week ending Nov. 15, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel, including Presidio, Secuvy, CoreWeave, SAS and Snyk. The Week Ending Nov. 15 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is solution provider superstar Presidio for a strategic acquisition that will expand its expertise and…

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Partners should see ‘a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,’ especially with continued frustrations over price changes at rival VMware, said Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat’s senior director of hybrid cloud platforms. Updates to Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, Edge Device and Developer Hub should offer partners more ways to do business with customers, executives with the…

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Presidio makes its second acquisition in one month with the purchase of ServiceNow Elite partner Contender Solutions. Channel powerhouse Presidio has acquired a majority stake in one of ServiceNow’s top partners to boost the $6 billion company’s ServiceNow business, specifically around software management services and implementation. Presidio CEO Bob Cagnazzi (pictured) said the acquisition of…

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For the week ending Nov. 8, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Ingram Micro, CrowdStrike, Accenture, Cynomi and Nerdio. The Week Ending Nov. 8 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is distributor Ingram Micro for its latest steps to help solution providers work with…

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Left unchecked, ‘generative AI in the software development process is going to produce worse outcomes from a software security perspective,’ says software security pioneer and Veracode Co-Founder Chris Wysopal. While generative AI continues to deliver massive boosts to workplace productivity as adoption climbs, the trade-offs for security are becoming increasingly evident, as well, according to…

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‘Our acquisition of Adaptive Shield takes us another step forward in giving our customers the best possible protection against modern cyberattacks with the Falcon platform,’ said CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas. Cybersecurity all-star CrowdStrike is significantly boosting its Falcon platform with the acquisition of SaaS security startup Adaptive Shield. CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas said the purchase…

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‘Our customers, the business and our shareholders will feel good about this long term,’ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s latest quarterly earnings call that the vendor expects to spend more than $75 billion on capital in 2025, most of that going toward Amazon Web Services and generative…

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins weighed in on what the fully renovated Cisco 360 partner program means for partners, who tell CRN that the “devil will be in the details.” Cisco 360, revealed this week at Cisco Partner Summit 2024, marks the biggest overhaul to the partner program in the company’s history and partners are eager…

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