It’s financial earnings season for tech… and that appears to include ransomware operators, as the REvil ransomware gang has claimed they made more than $100…
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What a K Shaped Recovery Means for Tech Services Companies
By Dave Sobel on November 2, 2020
Let’s talk about the recovery. Here’s the question I was asked. “What does a K shaped recovery looks like? Our industry, and a few others,…
Partners who use financing outperform by 11%
By Dave Sobel on October 30, 2020
Highlighting some insights from Ingram Micro, quoting CRN: Ingram Micro partners who used financing as a way to conserve cash during the early days of…
Forrester’s 2021 Data Privacy Predictions
By Dave Sobel on October 29, 2020
Forrester with their global data privacy predictions – four top ones. Legal action due to employee privacy infringements to increase by 100 per cent Forrester…
Extortion-ware is now in the field
By Dave Sobel on October 28, 2020
Patients of a large psychotherapy clinic in Finland have been contacted individually by a blackmailer after their data was stolen, including personal identification records and…
Don’t Start an MSP
By Dave Sobel on October 26, 2020
This came from a discussion with a consulting organization about “advice for immature MSPs”. And I just could not resist. When all the messaging is…
Employee Stress up with Work from Home, new data shows
By Dave Sobel on October 22, 2020
The pandemic and remote work are taking their toll – 68% of respondents to a new survey by Blind saying they are more burned out…
Gartner’s strategic tech trends for 2021
By Dave Sobel on October 21, 2020
Gartner has released their strategic tech trends for 2021. Those are: AI Engineering, which will facilitate the performance, scalability, interpretability, and reliability of AI models…
Security may be worse than we think for SMBs
By Dave Sobel on October 21, 2020
A new survey by Devolutions on the SMB cybersecurity market across a variety of industries, including IT, health care, education and finance 78% of SMBs said…
Channel is an overloaded term: Why the confusion matters
By Dave Sobel on October 19, 2020
I recently spotted what I considered an odd hashtag on LinkedIn — #savethechannel The channel is an interestingly overloaded phrase. It’s used to refer to…