The proposed deal would make Mimecast the third email security vendor to be acquired this year, with Thoma Bravo purchasing Proofpoint for $12.3 billion and OpenText agreeing to buy Zix for $860 million.
At the Women Of The Channel Leadership Summit East, Erin Brockovich talked about the logic of following your gut and how others’ perceptions of you ‘don’t have to be your perception of who you are.’
Amazon Web Services says it is working to fix errors with multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Connect. Users at Downdetector.com are reporting outages at several major websites, including Facebook, Disney+ and some of Amazon’s consumer-facing services.
‘Communities are so big and so meaningful to TD Synnex. They’re an audience of partners who were dedicated. And for that dedication, they get favors. They gain other things perhaps that one of our resellers might not get if they don’t consider the community. There’s just a lot of extras’, says Sammy Kinlaw, TD Synnex’s senior vice president of sales communities for North America.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Worldwide Channel Chief George Hope outlines eight top priorities for partners for fiscal year 2022 including a consistent customer and partner experience with ‘faster speed’ to quote on offerings like HPE GreenLake.
Here’s a look at how Mimecast can leverage Permira’s deep pockets to its advantage, the possibility of another buyer coming in with a superior bid, and why email security vendors have made such appealing acquisition targets.
“We’ve talked about: ‘You have to lean in, you have to raise your hand and show them you want it. This isn’t about women not ‘bucking up. These statistics show that we are doing that, actually, more frequently than men,” said Lisa MacKenzie, founding partner of The Channel Company during the Women Of The Channel 2021 events.
The 10 cybersecurity tools and products making an impact deliver everything from ransomware readiness assessments and automated incident investigations to protection for remote workers and small businesses.
From Boston Dynamics’ dog-like mobile robot to Qualcomm’s 5G- and AI-powered drone, here are some of the most compelling sights from the expo floor of Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference.
Over the past 12 months, the style, severity and frequency of cybercrime have continued to evolve. These threats have caused trillions of dollars worth of damage, with Accenture forecasting more than $6T of global value at risk in 2021.
TD Synnex has brought the Varnex, TechSelect, and Stellr communities into a single new umbrella organization called CommunitySolv under the leadership of long-time channel icon Sammy Kinlaw, while former Varnex lead Stegner takes on a wider marketing role for the distributor.
Analysts say the new FTC lawsuit makes the Nvidia-Arm deal very unlikely and would leave Arm with few good options for its future. ‘Unfortunately, in this situation, in order to grow, [Arm needs] a lot of money because they need to be investing in parallel categories beyond mobility,’ one analyst says.
‘When we have partners with real experts who show up at our customer sites, we hear all about it. And it‘s just incredibly important for maintaining that trust,’ said AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS’ re:Invent conference.
‘SmileBack is allowing partners to get feedback from their customers on what is going well and where any challenges are. We will provide our partners with more insights to help them increase their customer retention,’ April Taylor, ConnectWise vice president of product management, tells CRN.
In one of the largest channel mergers in history, CDW has closed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions. Here’s what you need to know.
At the Women Of The Channel Leadership Summit East, Erin Brockovich talked about the logic of following your gut and how others’ perceptions of you ‘don’t have to be your perception of who you are.’
