‘With the 21 years at Dell with all of those different jobs, I’ve got a lot of different experience in services, sales, operations, logistics…even strategy so I feel very well prepared. I am very grateful to all of my bosses and leaders and mentors who’ve helped me build skills.”–Joyce Mullen, Insight’s incoming president and CEO.
‘In view of the challenges facing Atos, we have appointed Rodolphe Belmer for his strategic acumen and his proven leadership and operational efficiency, as well as his ability to successfully lead complex transformations,’ says Bertrand Meunier, chairman of Atos’ board of directors, in a statement.
When Intel CFO George Davis departs next year, he will become Intel’s fourth most highly compensated executive from 2020 to leave the company since last year, underlining the major leadership changes experienced by the semiconductor giant since then.
The talks fell apart as Intel seeks to regain technology leadership through its IDM 2.0 strategy and as rival Nvidia hopes to close its $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, the latter of which has sparked concerns about the future of Arm’s open-licensing model. Those concerns have helped raise the profile of SiFive, which provides processor designs using the open-source RISC-V architecture as an alternative.
Worldwide IT spending will hit $4.47 trillion in 2022, according to new data from Gartner. Here’s the projected spending growth rate and dollars expected in data center systems, software, devices and services next year.
‘From a business strategy standpoint, lean into digital and cloud. Pick a few big bets with hard impact business cases and move fast. Structure the digital organization to have flexibility in strategy and operating model, even if that means having to disrupt your traditional business,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
‘In a hybrid work model there are a couple of items that are really magnified in regards to security. A hybrid work model creates massive decentralization. When that happens, all of the endpoints move farther away with less control and less centralized management,’ says Mike Fouts, vice president for Americas partner sales at Citrix.
‘ESET has a tremendous opportunity to further engage the channel and drive their mission. We can really see the partnership between ESET and the channel go to the next level,’ incoming Vice President of Sales Ryan Grant tells CRN exclusively.
‘From a partner perspective, what we’re seeing is just the ability to really consult with the customers and truly provide that overall solution for the end users that can really address the overall digital IT transformation,’ Melissa McCoy, vice president of channel sales at Flexential.
The chipmaker says a new Windows 11 software update addresses an L3 cache latency issue that could reduce performance in certain applications and games while a separate AMD chipset driver package fixes thread scheduling issues that also impacted performance.
‘You can take signal from all those products, reduce the noise, get a much better picture of the human risk and correct it in real-time,’ KnowBe4 Founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman tells CRN.
The telecom giant’s wireless wins in both consumer and business are outpacing its business wireline declines, but AT&T is working to move enterprises through a product shift in favor of fiber, 4G LTE and 5G offerings while also targeting the midmarket.
‘There‘s a slight pause, and it will be the end of the third quarter, maybe the beginning of the fourth quarter,” Krishna says. ‘And we see that pause mostly in hardware and in Kyndryl itself.’
‘My team members get together with the Hashi team members and they build things together,’ Nick Colyer, director of cloud, development operations (DevOps) and automation at Chicago-based HashiCorp partner Ahead tells CRN in an interview. ‘The more we do that, it‘s going to continue to help solve customer problems. That’s key.’
Salaries for new Dell Technologies hires over the past 12 months through H-1B visas range from $62,000 to well over $200,000, according to a report from Insider. ‘Dell is tapping into talent acquisition of resources in other countries,’ one top executive from a large national U.S.-based solution provider tells CRN.
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Intel Global Channel Chief John Kalvin says the chipmaker is increasing investments to ensure a broader range of software is ready for new processors as soon as they launch to help channel partners deliver Intel-based solutions faster and with greater confidence.
‘That need for automation, that need to drive efficient business processes across a dispersed workforce, the need to give customers a set of products and services is something they didn‘t even know they needed prior to the pandemic. We’re seeing some of the large ISVs go out and start to dip their toes into automation and that’s a massive validation of this space,’ says Ben Yerushalmi, senior vice president of global alliances and channels at Automation Anywhere.
‘In view of the challenges facing Atos, we have appointed Rodolphe Belmer for his strategic acumen and his proven leadership and operational efficiency, as well as his ability to successfully lead complex transformations,’ says Bertrand Meunier, chairman of Atos’ board of directors, in a statement.
