The road to channel prosperity isn’t smooth. Knowing the trends and understanding their root causes is the foundation for successful navigation. Let’s face it: The past 12 months haven’t been a fount of good news. Amid the ongoing pandemic, political turmoil – particularly in the…

According to Larry Wash, CEO and Chief Analyst at Channelnomics, the only thing that’s certain moving forward is more change. The Covid pandemic may have accelerated Digital Transformation, but we’re still more at a point of digitalization and haven’t even started the transformation yet. And…

GitHub has added a CSO to its ranks, as the platform seeks to grow and maintain one of the world’s largest collections of open source software projects. Hanley a big win for GitHub By all accounts, Hanley’s hire is a win for GitHub — a…

Offloading SAN management to an MSP partner could free IT admins from an infrastructure component that sometimes gets short shrift among other data center priorities. What’s under the hood? IT managers looking to hire an MSP for managed storage might need to dig a bit…

Security is baked into most low-code development platforms, but developers still need to pay attention to security issues and test for vulnerabilities. Beware the citizen developer? The rise of citizen developers has underpinned the movement toward low-code/no-code platform, but this population brings built-in security risks…

Starting with Arrow Electronics and Ingram Micro Inc., the new program enables partners with marketing support, flexible financing and consumption models; gives customers easy, immediate access to Check Point’s cloud solutions  Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions…

“We need to really rethink the customer journey. Most customers don’t know or care about the technology being used. It’s about the experience for them.” Larry Walsh, CEO of The 2112 Group The coronavirus outbreak has led to business struggles at all levels of the…

JFrog fills gaps in its DevOps platform with new features and partnerships with tool providers to help developers ship secure code and use issue-free open-source code. RunSafe launched a beta program for developers to try out the Alkemist plugin, as memory corruption-based attacks can be…

New performance monitoring feature in Sentry’s error tracking and release integration platform helps developers find and fix performance issues. The top 10 web app security risks are largely the same today as they were during the second Bush administration — injection flaws, busted authentication and…

MSPs are facing financial uncertainty due to the pandemic. Industry experts offer advice on managing the pandemic’s impact and preparing for hard times. Larry Walsh, founder, CEO and chief analyst at the 2112 Group, has taken to calling the pandemic “the tale of two cities….

Larry Walsh, CEO, chief analyst and founder of founder of The 2112 Group, is a scheduled speaker at CompTIA ChannelCon Online 2020 CompTIA’s seventh annual virtual conference Aug. 4-6 will feature a meaty educational program and industry experts chiming in on the impact the pandemic…

Sales of any kind has never been a job for the faint of heart, but like everything else it’s become far more challenging lately. Many customers have been stuck at home for months, unable to just walk into a store or even make connections with…