Here are five (actually, more) tech news updates, insights, chatter, and more to start your day for Thursday, July 28, 2022. Sip.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. MSP Conference News and Analysis: Follow all the news from the Build IT Live 2022 conference right here. IT By Design’s latest developments include a unified NOC-RMM collaboration with N-central software by N-able, and a managed XDR cybersecurity relationship with Vijilan.
2. Cyberattack of MSP and Cloud Services: NetStandard, an MSP in Kansas City, appears to have suffered a cyberattack involving MyAppsAnywhere — a hosted platform that supports CRM, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sharepoint, according to a report on Reddit.
3. Delayed IPOs: The IPO window for tech startups won’t reopen until the first quarter of 2023 at the earliest, with many likely bleeding into the second quarter, The Information reports.
4. IT Service Management (ITSM) – ServiceNow Revenues: ServiceNow’s revenue was $1.75 billion in Q2 or 2022, up 24% from Q2 of 2021. More than 100 organizations each spend more than $10 million annually on ServiceNow…
5. IT Consulting – HR and Finance Management Software: McKinsey is working closely with Workday on SaaS-based HR and financial management business opportunities.
6. IT Consulting – Financial Results: Cognizant’s revenue was $4.9 billion in Q2 2022, up 7% from the corresponding quarter last year.
7. Government Cloud Competition: Microsoft is rallying Google and Oracle to press the US government to spread its spending on such services more widely, aiming to dominate Amazon in such contracts, the Wall Street Journal reported.
8. Funding – Rural Internet Access: President Joe Biden’s administration will provide $401 million for broadband Internet that will serve 31,000 rural residents and businesses in 11 states, Reuters reported.
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