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Kaseya Datto’s Global State of the MSP Report

Kaseya’s Datto with their new Global State of the MSP Report.    It’s pretty cheerful -- 95% of the 1,800 MSPs surveyed say it’s an excellent time…

Two competing sets of jobs data to parse

I want to pull from an Axios story.  Quote: Right now, the two surveys are sending distinct signals about the trend in employment. It could…

Apple’s new data protection offering

With some significant add-ons to their data protection, Apple launched end-to-end encryption for iCloud backups.     Called Advanced Data Protection, Apple will expand the number of…

Has the JEDI saga reached its conclusion

Remember JEDI?    That was the ten billion dollar contract the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft. Amazon challenged and was canceled.     The DoD then launched The Joint…

Alphabet soup of certification

Here’s an interesting warning -- Recruiters and employers are starting to warn applicants against getting too many cybersecurity training certifications.  This coming from reporting in Axios.    …

Rackspace confirms ransomware attack

A follow-up to Monday – that outage at Rackspace has now been confirmed as a ransomware attack.   Rackspace says that the investigation, led by a cyber…

Rackspace’s Hosted Exchange Security Incident

I don’t typically cover breaches.. yet this one is getting much buzz within the IT services community. Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange services have been taken…

Product announcements of note from last week

I noted several product announcements last week for a quick lightning round. Amazon’s re: invent was last week, with two announcements I wanted to note.…