About
O’Ryan Johnson is a veteran news reporter. He covers the channel beat for CRN and hopes to hear from channel partners about how he can improve his coverage and write the stories they want to read. He can be reached at ojohnson@thechannelcompany.com.
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Triple Threat: Private Equity Deal Paves Way For $1.3B Tech Powerhouse
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Why in the hell are we not coming together?’ We collectively sold it to Court Square and said, this is what we think is right for our customers. This is what’s right for our vendors,’ Stephen Ayoub, founder and CEO of Data Blue, -- who will now step into the roll of president and chief revenue officer for the soon-to-be created company -- tells CRN.
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Tech Data Sees Growth In Cloud-Based Security
by O’Ryan Johnson
Tech Data has partnered with Akamai, which previously catered to enterprise telecom companies, to bring cloud-based security solutions to managed service providers.
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‘Pandemic Crisis’ Of MSP Ransomware Attacks Will Grow In 2020, Experts Say
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘I mean if you just go with basic data. We’ve seen an explosion of MSPs getting encrypted en masse, from one a month, to three, four, per week right now. Its an up trend. Its here to stay,’ says Kyle Hanslovan, founder and CEO of Huntress Labs.
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Continuum CEO Says Consolidation Coming To MSP Platforms—And 'That’s A Good Thing'
by O’Ryan Johnson
'I think you're going to see over the next two or three years some of these tectonic shifts where some of these major platform providers will get consolidated and, frankly, I think that's a good thing for the market—not a bad thing,' Continuum CEO Michael George tells CRN.
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Accenture Ends Year On A High, Looks For Growth In 2020
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘What we see is most of our clients are in the very early stages of their transformation journeys. The starting points and speed are different by industry and company, but the scope of the ambition is consistently broad … clients choose Accenture for their largest and most complex transformation programs,’ says Accenture CEO Julie Sweet.
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Arbitrators Slam HPE Financial Services’ CFO For ‘Altered Documents’ In DXC Case
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘A document alteration that is not disclosed is a very serious matter … Thus, no argument based on them is given weight. In sum, exhibits numbered TX 1615, TX 1616, and TX 1617 are not authentic documents because they were altered from the original, and the alteration was concealed by HPE,’ a panel of three arbitrators wrote.
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Lexmark’s Kinlaw: Industry Experts Now Available To Help Partners Pull Deals Over The Finish Line
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Since Lexmark began we’ve established industry expertise and really gained years of data and experiences, and now we’ve acquired a whole collection of industry consultants who understand the ins and outs of what our industry needs and what are best practices,’ channel chief Sammy Kinlaw tells CRN.
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ConnectWise Control Used As Entry Point In Texas Ransomware Attack
by O’Ryan Johnson
As attackers have discovered the power of remote access tools in spreading viruses, ConnectWise has been reinforcing its products, educating its customers, and joining forces with competitors to eliminate the scourge of ransomware. Beginning Oct. 1, ConnectWise Control will enforce multifactor authentication by default.
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MSP At Center Of Texas Ransomware Hit: ‘We Take Care Of Our Customers’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘There are similar things that have happened recently regarding ConnectWise and ScreenConnect. Even since my attack, there have been some additional attacks. Same MO. ... There’s another issue that I’m concerned about that has not yet been resolved to my satisfaction that I can’t talk about yet,’ says Rick Myers, founder of TSM Consulting.
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Judge Blocks DXC Technology, HPE Attempt To Keep Documents Secret
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Those documents are, in short, essential building blocks of whatever decision this court may issue in this proceeding,’ U.S. District Court Judge Valerie E. Caproni wrote. ‘Their commercial privacy interests cannot possibly justify extinguishing wholesale the public’s First Amendment interest in understanding the activity of the federal courts.’
