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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ConnectWise Upgrades Its Marketplace To Include Buying
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘If someone wants to go buy one of these third-party products, they can go do so, whenever they want. They can choose how many licenses they want to give, and also upgrade and downgrade the licenses and we’re also providing usage-based licensing, where appropriate for the product,’ ConnectWise chief product officer Jeff Bishop tells CRN. -
D&H Distributing Cloud Executive Bystrak On His First Project And Why ‘We’re Starting To Get Into The Groove’
by O’Ryan Johnson
Prior to his job at D&H, Bystrak was vice president of worldwide channels & distribution for Axcient. Before that he spent 22 years at D&H competitor Ingram Micro where he helped to build that company’s cloud computing plan. -
ServiceNow Picks Partner’s Disaster Recovery App For Internal Use
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘We are particularly honored to have ServiceNow implement MaestroRS because ServiceNow provides the platform and ecosystem in which we operate,’ Aaron Callaway, managing director, Fairchild Resiliency Systems tells CRN. ‘ServiceNow recognizes the domain expertise in their partner community.’ -
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Automation Startup Liongard Integrates With IT Glue
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘We are the level four engineer that doesn’t sleep at night, that goes out to the systems and loves documenting all the details across all the systems that push into IT Glue,’ Vincent Tran, chief operating officer with Liongard tells CRN. -
D&H Distributing Hits $4B In Sales, Focuses On Vendors With ‘Channel Integrity’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘We’re not the supermarket of distributors. We don’t sell every vendor. We want to have the best in breed and drive disproportionate share for you,’ says D&H Distributing Co-President Dan Schwab. -
CACI CEO Resigns, New CEO Named To ‘Ensure A Smooth Transition’
by O’Ryan Johnson
Kenneth Asbury will resign at the end of June and will be replaced by John Mengucci, CACI’s current chief operating officer. -
Conduent Names New Chief Accounting Officer
by O’Ryan Johnson
The business process services company turned internally for its new top accounting executive, naming a replacement just two days after it was disclosed that current Chief Accounting Officer Allan Cohen would depart. -
Tech Data Grows In Americas, Shrinks In ‘Less Robust’ Europe
by O’Ryan Johnson
Sales in the Americas were $3.8 billion, up 5 percent over last year, driven by growth of cloud, security, software licenses, and data center hardware, as well as PCs, the company said. -
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Conduent Accounting Exec Plans Exit For ‘Other Career Opportunities’
by O’Ryan Johnson
Allan Cohen is the latest C-level executive to say that he is leaving the company, after CEO Ashok Vemuri announced he would resign later this year. -
Mist Systems Makes Deal With Ingram Micro ‘To Help Us Accelerate’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘AI-driven Wi-Fi allows for a smarter, more flexible, high performance network. It also helps bring the channel partner closer to the customer,’ Eric Kohl, VP of advanced solutions, networking and security business unit at Ingram Micro, tells CRN. -
DXC On ‘Lumpy’ Path To Digital Growth, CEO Says
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘It's like a whole different world, which is just so exciting,’ CEO Mike Lawrie tells investors during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. ‘And as we continue to drive more of this digital revenue, that becomes more and more what the company looks like.’ -
SolarWinds Revamps Event Manager With Security Edge
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Our goal with this is really to advance SolarWinds offerings that we felt weren’t really being addressed or met by enterprise level security software vendors that are out there,’ Brandon Shopp, vice president, product strategy, security at SolarWinds, tells CRN.
