Tag: Application and Platform Security
For the week ending Sept. 13, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including ConnectWise, Todyl, AWS, ServiceNow and Blue Mantis. The Week Ending Sept. 13 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is ConnectWise for its Axcient and SkyKick acquisitions that will boost its data protection…
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Microsoft seeks ‘to raise the bar on our operational excellence,’ CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella said in a statement. Microsoft has a new chief operating officer and executive vice president tasked with helping the vendor “drive continuous business process improvement across all our organizations and accelerate our company-wide AI transformation, increasing value to customers and…
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In an Oracle CloudWorld keynote, the Oracle founder and CTO also held up the company’s new alliance with Amazon Web Services as the start of the “open multi-cloud era.” Oracle’s next-generation network security technology, which leverages AI and biometric authentication to thwart cyber threats, is now available in the Oracle Cloud, Oracle founder, chairman and…
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‘The strategy behind acquiring both SkyKick and Axcient was to further expand our cybersecurity and data protection portfolios,’ said Ameer Karim, executive vice president and general manager at ConnectWise. ‘As cyber threats evolve, data protection and cybersecurity must go hand-in-hand.’ In a move to bolster its cybersecurity and data protection capabilities, ConnectWise has acquired Axcient…
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Oracle and AWS unveiled the partnership just ahead of Oracle’s first fiscal quarter earnings call, during which Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison gave a bullish account of the AI market. Oracle has inked a partnership with Amazon Web Services, creating Oracle Database@AWS, and revealed the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud as the artificial…
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‘We are super excited to scale and become a North America superpower,’ says Blue Mantis CEO Josh Dinneen, who is already in discussions with three potential acquisition targets. Blue Mantis is stepping up its fast growth security-first, next-generation technology service provider sales offensive under a new private equity majority owner, Recognize. The New York-headquartered Recognize,…
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‘We sincerely apologize this incident occurred,’ according to a letter to Avis customers. Avis, the car rental company, has disclosed that threat actors accessed one of its business applications and accessed customer personal information. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company has sent letters dated Sept. 4 to customers whose information was accessed in the breach, according to…
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Own Co. CEO Sam Gutmann founded Intronis in 2003 and led the company for about seven years as CEO. Barracuda Networks bought Intronis in 2015. Salesforce plans to buy data protection and management vendor Own Co. for about $1.9 billion in cash amid the customer relationship management vendor’s big investments in the emerging artificial intelligence…
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“It’s a perfect fit for our platform,” Kiteworks SVP Amit Toren told CRN in an interview. Kiteworks has purchased 123FormBuilder in a move that promises to boost the data privacy and compliance tools vendor’s secure data collection capabilities – and the vendor is still hunting for more acquisitions following a $456 million growth equity investment.…
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‘We have a lot of prospects interested in SuperOps, and my focus will be on reaching out to them, engaging in meaningful conversations and understanding their needs,’ says Brandi Crown, SuperOps’ new U.S. head of sales. ‘We aim to help MSPs not only manage their operations more effectively but also to capitalize on tools and…
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