‘I’d imagine that there’s a lot of customers who are scratching their head over what this means for them and perhaps opens the doors for us and our partners when those customers come up for renewal,’ says Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready in an interview with CRN.
The startup behind the failed Iowa caucus app is packed with operatives from past Democratic presidential campaigns, and is tied to ACRONYM, ‘a nonprofit organization committed to building power and digital infrastructure for the progressive movement.’
‘Avaya has the playbook, but how do you get us to run the plays?’ asks one Avaya partner. ‘They have the vision and the products to get there … but they need more work on how to do it.’
Effective April 2, VMware will increase its CPU licensing pricing model for customers who have more than 32 cores. VMware channel partners talk to CRN about the market impact.
‘Travis and I have shared a brain for 20-something years,’ FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia says. ‘I think I knew his habits better than I knew my wife’s habits. So there’s going to be total continuity in the mission and the things we put forward.’
The agency plans to hire multiple companies to provide cloud infrastructure and PaaS and SaaS solutions, according to a draft request for proposals presented to technology companies.
'AMD is a stronger consideration than it has been in the past. The question is, will they be in it for the long haul like Intel is?,' one Intel partner said of his potential plans to add AMD-based laptops to his product line.
Nominet, a cybersecurity vendor, is expanding its cybersecurity portfolio to North American partners, including a Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution.
James Whitehurst brings a wide range of experience from corporate bankruptcy turnarounds to massive software revenue growth to IBM that combined could shake up Big Blue's business in a positive way and help restart growth.
‘It’s pretty clear from what I read that they went with a smallish firm, a cheapish app, and then shortchanged the testing side,’ Rob Mason, the chief technology officer at app testing company Applause, tells CRN.
'With this important investment by AWS, Amazon's cloud computing company, we are going to generate more jobs, technology and opportunities for startups as well, placing the state of São Paulo in the global context,' São Paulo Governor João Doria says.
'While the new VMware licensing guidelines change the economics slightly for higher core count processors, AMD remains committed to VMware as a winning virtualization solution for AMD EPYC customers,' the chipmaker says in response to VMware's move to double licensing costs for processors with more than 32 cores.
The two cloud application consultancies have overlapping and complementing practices, with both delivering Oracle technology either as Software as a Service or as licensed software hosted in AWS.
'With these changes, and the realignment of our sales teams, we created customer disruption and negatively impacted our service levels. Since April, as we encountered issues, we made adjustments. And now, following this quarter's sales results, we will make more changes,' says ScanSource CEO Mike Baur.
'The sequential quarterly growth in absolute dollar terms was by far the highest ever achieved,' Synergy Group chief analyst and research director John Dinsdale says. 'At 37 percent, the year-on-year growth rate is slowly trending down, but this is due to the massive scale of the market, which forces growth rates to moderate. The 2019 market was over twice the size of the 2017 market.'