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April 19, 2024
Not good: researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have found that if you feed OpenAI’s GPT-4 a CVE advisory, it can exploit the associated vulnerability all by itself with an 87% success rate. That’s up from 0% on GPT-3.5, by the way. Progress! But really, why bother sneaking into a target environment via CVEs?…
April 16, 2024
If attendance equals success for tech conferences, then last week’s Google Cloud Next show in Las Vegas was a triumph. The event drew 30,000 people (roughly double last year’s attendance), including 6,000 there to attend the event-within-an-event Google Partner Summit. “We’re seeing a 2-3x number of partners at this event than we’ve ever experienced at…
April 12, 2024
This turned out to be a pretty good week for PCs. Canalys reported a 3.2% increase in shipments during Q1 just a day after IDC put the number at a more modest 1.5%. That second figure doesn’t sound like much, but after eight straight quarters of declines (and compared to the 28.7% plunge IDC recorded…
April 5, 2024
Looks like private equity may be gearing up to start buying again. Following a miserable 2023 in which high interest rates and low exit rates sent deal volumes into reverse hockey stick territory, a little over half of U.S. PE firms see strength in the M&A market, up from 38% last year, according to January…
March 29, 2024
Devoted Channelholic readers might recall something I wrote last November about the difference between Kaseya’s Oracle-like wish to sell MSPs everything they use and ConnectWise’s Microsoft-esque ecosystem strategy. Mike Adler, N-Able’s chief technology and product officer remembers the piece well enough to have referenced it briefly during our conversation this week at the vendor’s Empower…
March 22, 2024
I trust few will disagree when I observe that opinions in IT about private equity are…mixed. I know plenty of MSPs who groan in anticipation of reduced support and increased prices whenever a favorite vendor gets acquired by PE. It’s not hard to find even less subtle perspectives in gathering spots online either. Thanks for…
March 15, 2024
Time flies when you’re a channelholic. Hard as it is to believe, today marks this blog’s one-year anniversary, a fact I know in part because my first post ran immediately after CompTIA’s 2023 Communities & Councils Forum, and my latest one is appearing two days after the 2024 edition of that event. A highlight of…
March 12, 2024
There’s a reason an estimated 800 people flew into Las Vegas last week to attend this year’s Right of Boom security conference. A few reasons, actually: 78% of MSPs call cybersecurity a top IT challenge for their clients, according to research published by Kaseya last week. The second most listed challenge on the list—AI and…
March 8, 2024
If anything at all was predictable about this year’s HP Amplify Partner Conference it was that the company would be very, very excited about the imminent arrival of its first AI PCs. And sure enough: “This is a very, very exciting year, because the journey will start this summer as we start launching the first…
March 1, 2024
It’s a measure of how young generative AI is, though well into its second year of celebrity status, that people still can’t decide whether to love it or fear it. And I’m talking about the same people in a lot of cases. Latest example, from JumpCloud: 79% of IT professionals believe AI will be a…