The talent crunch and supply chain upheaval are weighing the heaviest as solution providers and MSPs look ahead to 2022—making the ability to creatively and dynamically respond to those challenges more essential than ever
‘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.
During its third-quarter earnings call, Intel laid out large investments in manufacturing that will weigh down on margins over the next couple of years. But Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger promised a ‘multiyear recovery’ of margins as Intel’s investments will eventually allow the company to leapfrog competitors.
‘Networking is a fundamental area for moving to the cloud. We’ve found that not all our partners have the right skills. So having a way to choose from partners who have been evaluated to have the right networking competency is very helpful to our customers,’ says Teresa Uthurralt, director of AWS partner network programs.
‘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.
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.
The cloud computing giant is stepping up its rivalry against cloud competitors with the launch of new in-house processors, servers and new data centers outside China.
‘We want to be the place that’s the daily habit for engineers to figure out what’s going on in their software so that we can save them time and they can deliver better experiences,’ says Buddy Brewer, group vice president and general manager of product for New Relic.
‘All of our clients and partners that we work with on a daily basis are asked to do more with less. Less people, less money, less resources, less time, so the partner community is needed now more than ever,’ says Edge Solutions co-founder Michael Haley.
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.
‘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.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
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.
‘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.
