Tag: Cloud Security
‘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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‘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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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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‘Our partnership with IBM reinforces our commitment to innovation and our conviction in the tremendous benefit of QRadar customers adopting Cortex XSIAM for a robust, data-driven security platform that offers transformative efficiency and effectiveness in defending against evolving cyberthreats,’ says Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. Cybersecurity superstar Palo Alto Networks completed its $500 million…
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“AI is certainly the topic of topic of the day, but I think we are going to think of AI differently,” says incoming TD Synnex President of North America Reyna Thompson. “It’s not just that AI is emerging. It is how do you monetize AI?… We’re actually focused on how do you build a business…
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‘Lots of MSPs, they want to use AI … You need to have your data in the cloud. And if you’re not doing that, you’re really not going to be able to leverage the full power of AI,” Nerdio CRO Joseph Landes says. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop management vendor Nerdio continues to invest in its…
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The goal of the partnership is to ensure Citrix Service Provider partners ‘have the level of coverage, service, technical support, so on and so forth that they need to be effective in their business and maintain flexibility in the model in which they want to consume,’ says Ethan Fitzsimons, Citrix’s channel chief. Citrix, a business…
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The new hires come as Microsoft continues to assert leadership in the growing AI space while furthering efforts to increase the security of its products. A Microsoft artificial intelligence CEO, a CTO of worldwide defense and intelligence, and a corporate vice president of core data services are among the most consequential hires at Microsoft so…
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CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy dives into Cortex AI and Iceberg customer momentum, the impact of Snowflake’s recent cyberattack and how AI will ‘c ontribute materially to revenue’ in 2025 . CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy was bullish about his company’s AI future during Snowflake’s Q2 earnings report on Wednesday, while also downplaying his company’s recent cyberattack and unveiling…
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