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May 31, 2024
Statistics are all about context. For example, just 30% of IT jobs are held by women at present, according to 2024 data from CompTIA. Pretty bleak, but actually better than last year’s 26% and better still than the state of play in cybersecurity, where a mere 20 to 25% of the workforce is currently female,…
May 17, 2024
Editor’s note: Covering the channel is a marathon, not a sprint. Savvy channelholics rest up now and again, so I’ll be snoozing on a beach somewhere next week rather than posting. Back on the job and loving it two weeks from today though. It’s a tough time to be in venture capital. “Publicly traded tech…
May 15, 2024
I came home from last week’s RSA Conference with lots of news and insights from the world of cybersecurity. I also came home with a sinus infection of some kind, which is why the RSAC follow-up coverage I originally promised to post on Monday isn’t appearing until now. Worth the wait, I hope! CrowdStrike wants…
May 10, 2024
Editor’s note: I came home from this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco with way more news and observations than I can write up in a single post, so I’m covering the observations here and will have a bonus post about the news on Monday. Some people obsess over the song of the summer. Channelholics…
May 3, 2024
It would be a mistake to call Kaseya unpopular. You don’t get to be as big as the company is or achieve the roughly 94 percent renewal rates it claims to have by being unpopular. On the other hand, though all its major competitors have critics too, Kaseya sure appears to have more—and more vocal—haters…
April 30, 2024
Editor’s note: Channelholic usually appears in your inbox on Fridays, and will again this week. But given the extraordinary interest in the mystery announcement Kaseya has long been promising to make today at its Kaseya Connect Global event and Channelholic’s early opportunity to discuss that news under embargo with Kaseya CEO Fred Voccola yesterday, we’re…
April 26, 2024
It’s kind of a glass half full or half empty question. Which has more of your attention these days, AI’s risks or its rewards? We hardly need to belabor the scale of the potential rewards by now, and I’ve written repeatedly in recent months that IT providers needn’t wait years to begin cashing in on…
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…