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Peak 10 To Partners: 'We're Open For Business And Want To Teach You About Cloud'

Peak 10 wants partners to know that cloud is a big opportunity for the channel. The provider's new channel chief Dave Sroka told CRN about how Peak 10 is doubling down on its partner strategy by investing in new channel managers and making cloud education for solution providers a priority in 2017.
Alfresco's Channel Revamp And Cloud Partnerships Are Driving Partner Recruitment

After updating its partner program, the business process software vendor struck relationships with AWS and Salesforce. A surge in interest from global SIs followed.
8 Products And Features Unveiled At AWS Summit 2017

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels introduced many new AWS features at the company's Summit conference in San Francisco. Here's a look at the latest updates to the world's largest public cloud.
Docker CEO Ben Golub On Powering A Partner Ecosystem And Keeping Planes In The Air

Docker CEO Ben Golub said his company is a key component of digital transformation as 'a way for you to get yourself to that point without having to lose the things that got you where you are right now.'
7 Major Vendor Announcements That Stood Out At DockerCon 2017

IBM, Oracle, CA, Dell EMC and other major vendors turned up in Austin, Texas, this week to support container tech developers and help make enterprise computing more efficient.
Report: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Cloud Cost Optimization Vendor Cloudyn

The Israeli company would fetch between $50 and $70 million, according to Calcalist.
AWS CEO Jassy Aims To Use Hybrid Cloud To Avoid The Vendor Lock-In "Phobia" Spurred By Oracle

In an chat with his own chief marketing officer, Jassy discussed the impetus of the partnership with VMware, and why AWS is nothing like Oracle when it comes to locking in customers.
Amazon CTO Tells AWS Partners: 'Go Build'

At an AWS Summit event in San Francisco, Werner Vogels delivered a development-centric keynote highlighting new upgrades to the league-leading cloud platform
New Docker Open-Source Projects Promote Wide Developer Collaboration

Docker pushes its own Linux distribution as a development project and opens the door for wider collaboration among container innovators, even if they're not using Docker code.
5 Topics Partners Want Addressed At AWS Summit

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and AWS CEO Andy Jassy are set to take the stage Wednesday at the San Francisco event. Here are the questions partners want answered at the show.
Facebook Upgrades Workplace With Salesforce, Microsoft And Box Integrations

The integrations with Microsoft, Box and Salesforce - including the Quip productivity suite Salesforce recently acquired- will enable Workplace partners to access Office 365 documents, CRM data and files stored in the cloud directly within the Facebook service.
2017 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Cloud Vendors

As part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here are the 5-Star designees in the cloud technology space for 2017.
Comcast Adds IBM To Its Roster Of Dedicated Cloud Connections

Partners of the telecom and cable giant will be able to sell private connections to various Big Blue cloud services through IBM Direct Link.
2017 Partner Program Guide: Business Boost

This year's Partner Program Guide reflects a universal channel truth: One-size-fits-all partner programs are a thing of the past.
Welcome To The Rise Of The Strategic Service Provider Business

The strategic service provider shift is forcing cloud services companies, including Google, to step up to the plate with new channel models.
CRN Exclusive: OutSystems Launches Channel Program Focused On Enabling Global Partners To Rapidly Deliver Custom Apps

Partners are increasingly turning to low-code development platforms that reduce the time to build and deploy custom solutions for customers facing a digital battleground.
A Partner-Centric Shift: Google Revamps Its Channel Program

The channel program update is the key to Google's transformation into a serious enterprise public cloud player.
Look Out AWS And Azure – Google Is Betting Big On The Enterprise Channel

Under Diane Greene, Google's enterprise charge is now backed by new leadership, programs and attitude. Partners are cautiously hopeful real change is right around the corner.
Microsoft Dives Deeper Into Kubernetes With Deis Acquisition

Partners say the deal cements Kubernetes as Microsoft's "de facto standard orchestration tool"
Red Hat CEO Whitehurst On Soaring Stock Success, Open-Source Technologies And Being The 'Last Man Standing' In OpenStack

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst sat down with CRN at the company's North America partner conference to discuss strong financial results and the massive opportunity for the channel around Red Hat's open-source portfolio.

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Peak 10 To Partners: 'We're Open For Business And Want To Teach You About Cloud'

Alfresco's Channel Revamp And Cloud Partnerships Are Driving Partner Recruitment

8 Products And Features Unveiled At AWS Summit 2017

Docker CEO Ben Golub On Powering A Partner Ecosystem And Keeping Planes In The Air

7 Major Vendor Announcements That Stood Out At DockerCon 2017

Report: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Cloud Cost Optimization Vendor Cloudyn

AWS CEO Jassy Aims To Use Hybrid Cloud To Avoid The Vendor Lock-In "Phobia" Spurred By Oracle

Amazon CTO Tells AWS Partners: 'Go Build'

New Docker Open-Source Projects Promote Wide Developer Collaboration

5 Topics Partners Want Addressed At AWS Summit

Facebook Upgrades Workplace With Salesforce, Microsoft And Box Integrations

2017 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Cloud Vendors

Comcast Adds IBM To Its Roster Of Dedicated Cloud Connections

2017 Partner Program Guide: Business Boost

Welcome To The Rise Of The Strategic Service Provider Business

CRN Exclusive: OutSystems Launches Channel Program Focused On Enabling Global Partners To Rapidly Deliver Custom Apps

A Partner-Centric Shift: Google Revamps Its Channel Program

Look Out AWS And Azure – Google Is Betting Big On The Enterprise Channel

Microsoft Dives Deeper Into Kubernetes With Deis Acquisition

Red Hat CEO Whitehurst On Soaring Stock Success, Open-Source Technologies And Being The 'Last Man Standing' In OpenStack

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