Tag: Managed Security
‘Cautious customer behavior once again elongated sales cycles, then drove prioritization of needs over wants and cost savings over expansion. Capital investment in complex solutions, particularly those tied to data center and network modernization, continued to be downsized or put on hold. And there was growing refresh activity in client devices,’ says CDW Chair and…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was named this week as CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive of 2024. Microsoft executives came armed with data to show a growing artificial intelligence business and assurances that the vendor’s growing expenses to meet AI demand are done responsibly during the tech giant’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday.…
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Here’s a look at the tech industry companies that saw the biggest share price gains and losses in the first six months of 2024 including Nvidia, Dell Technologies, UIPath and Lumen Technologies. A Booming Year For Many Tech Stocks – So Far Fueled by anticipated growth from new AI technologies and products, many IT companies…
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CrowdStrike, AI and Copilot+ PCs are expected to come up during the quarterly earnings call Tuesday. The CrowdStrike update incident. Details on the cost and revenue from artificial intelligence. And updates on the rollout of AI PCs. Microsoft executives have a lot to cover Tuesday during the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s fourth fiscal quarter earnings…
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For the week ending July 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including ServiceNow, Mimecast, Google Cloud, Liongard and Accenture. The Week Ending July 26 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is ServiceNow for a strategic acquisition focused on GenAI-based search technology. Also making this…
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‘We are showing them how they can monetize and really be the trusted advisers around delivering managed attack surface capabilities, which are necessary to avoid problems,’ Liongard CEO Michelle Accardi tells CRN. Liongard this week unveiled its innovation road map and a build-out of its attack surface management platform to better equip MSPs to identify…
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New data from cloud insurance firm Parametrix sheds light on the financial cost of the massive CrowdStrike outage last week that affected millions of Microsoft devices. The massive CrowdStrike outage that affected millions of Microsoft devices is predicted to cost U.S. Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in total direct financial loss, with an average loss…
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‘We did send these to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation,’ according to a CrowdStrike spokesperson. CrowdStrike has confirmed to CRN that it sent partners Uber gift cards that stopped working – a gesture of appreciation mocked online as the cybersecurity vendor and solution providers deal with the fallout…
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‘Over the weekend, we saw about 50 new email domains that were purchased by cybercriminals to impersonate CrowdStrike,’ HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks tells CRN. Phishing emails have been circulating around inboxes after news of the CrowdStrike IT outage with scammers impersonating support teams to remediate the issue, and HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks said the messages…
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‘As a follow-up to the CrowdStrike Falcon agent issue impacting Windows clients and servers, Microsoft has released an updated recovery tool with two repair options to help IT admins expedite the repair process,’ Microsoft says. Following the faulty CrowdStrike update that caused chaos for millions of Microsoft customers and businesses, the software giant has now…
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