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Joseph F. Kovar

California

Senior Editor and Reporter at CRN (U.S.)

Friend of the channel and @CRN reporter. Loves writing in English, speaking in Mandarin Chinese, and swearing unintelligibly when losing a wargame.

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  • 3 weeks ago | crn.com | Joseph F. Kovar

    QBurst, a 20-year-old technology services provider specializing in application development and front-end engineering for clients including clothing retailers, luxury brands, and healthcare companies, has gone through a couple of major changes in the last couple months. First, the company in February received an investment of over $200 million from Multiples Alternate Asset Management, giving the India-based private equity firm a controlling stake in Chantilly, Va.-based QBurst.

  • 3 weeks ago | crn.com | Joseph F. Kovar

    ‘The whole premise behind going towards custom accelerators continues. It's not a matter of cost alone. It is that, as custom accelerators get used and get developed on a roadmap with any particular hyperscaler, that's a learning curve on how they could optimize the way the algorithms on their large language models get written and tied to silicon.

  • 3 weeks ago | crn.com | Joseph F. Kovar

    ConnectWise ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exploited: CISA The ConnectWise ScreenConnect vulnerability, which earlier this year was identified as a potential way for threat actors to perform ViewState code injection attacks, is now being exploited, according to the U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA.

  • 3 weeks ago | crn.com | Joseph F. Kovar

    40 Acquisitions In Under 3 Years: The MSP 20 Continues Its Roll-up ‘When somebody becomes a member [of The 20 Group], they have to transition 60 [percent] or 70 percent of their company into our tool stack and all that stuff. I doubt there's any MSP that has integrated more companies than The 20 has as just a function of integration. This means those MSPs standardize on one way of doing business. So we're literally integrating well before we buy them, which makes it easy.

  • 3 weeks ago | crn.com | Joseph F. Kovar

    General Informatics Acquires Fellow Louisiana MSP For Cybersecurity, Maritime Growth ‘We have access to quite a bit of private cloud services, because we have two data centers in Dallas and one data center in Baton Rouge, with the ability to do DR for both private and public clouds. That’s not something GlobeNet did a lot of.

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Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar
Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar @ChannelWritrGuy
8 Jun 25

Dell Technologies CTO and Chief AI Officer John Roese says that agentic AI will be deployed throughout major enterprises by the end of the year and that it represents a massive opportunity for partners. https://t.co/qftUotybhy

Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar
Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar @ChannelWritrGuy
8 Jun 25

The June issue of @CRN Magazine is out now! You can read the latest edition, featuring O’Ryan Johnson’s cover story on @DellTech’s AI strategy, online here: https://t.co/PmV5qc73yc. It also features a Q&A with Dell CTO and Chief AI Officer John Roese on agentic AI and more. https://t.co/yNTkidej9T

Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar
Joe “Joe Kovar” Kovar @ChannelWritrGuy
7 Jun 25

New data security requirements for U.S. defense contractors are providing a major opportunity for managed service providers to help customers upgrade their cybersecurity technology. https://t.co/xTBCvC4MfZ