Vista Equity Partners Co-Founder and President Brian Sheth, who has served on the Datto board since the MSP platform provider was acquired by Vista three years ago, has given up his board seat.
While higher unemployment and workforce up-skilling are expanding the IT candidate pool, employers are finding many applicants do not possess the right technical skills and experience or the desired soft skills, according to the staffing company.
“The acquisition of 128 Technology will enable Juniper to accelerate in a key area where we are seeing enormous success – the AI-driven enterprise,” said Juniper CEO Rami Rahim.
The deal means Intel is getting out of the NAND SSD business while retaining its Intel Optane products. ‘For Intel, this transaction will allow us to further prioritize our investments in differentiated technology where we can play a bigger role in the success of our customers and deliver attractive returns to our stockholders,’ CEO Bob Swan says.
Longtime Webroot channel chief Charlie Tomeo is leaving the company, but as of yet there is no word of where the veteran channel executive will go next.
As Big Blue prepares to spin out its GTS consulting business, CEO Arvind Krishna says greater investment is coming in hybrid cloud. ‘We are certain on our directions even in these uncertain times,’ Krishna tells investors.
NetApp is continuing to enhance its technologies for melding on-premises and cloud-based data into a single data fabric with new enhancements to its Ontap data management platform, Keystone services platform, SolidFire software-defined storage, and entry-level all-flash arrays.
As demand for data center services continue to grow despite the COVID-19 pandemic, startup Prime Data Centers is breaking ground on a new facility in Santa Clara, California.
Strategic service provider plans to leverage the expertise from its AWS systems development and integration services to add value to its managed services for AWS customers.
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In its most recent quarter, Intel’s Nonvolatile Solutions Group, which includes the chipmaker’s SSD products and Intel Optane memory modules, grew 76 percent to $1.7 billion.
The Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Series, which represents a broad portfolio update, offers a ‘massive refresh opportunity’ for channel partners, Cisco tells CRN.
The chipmaker’s new FPGA-based SmartNIC technologies for cloud data centers and 5G networks are part of a growing portfolio of connectivity products meant to help data center and network operators improve the performance and total cost of ownership for how data flows from one point to another.
“Work from home has become a strategic imperative,” said Keerti Melkote, founder and president of Aruba, an HPE company, in an interview with CRN. “Hybrid work is the way of the the future…Remote AP and the (Aruba) work from home products have become very important in a post pandemic world.”
The cloud provider can help process manufacturers navigate a ‘critical digital transformation journey,’ whether it’s by helping accelerate their information technology/operational technology convergence efforts with its hybrid and multi-cloud Anthos platform or further industrializing artificial intelligence, according to the newly hired Suchitra Bose.
The artificial intelligence offering, designed to reduce the time and cost of closing home loans, streamlines data capture from the reams of scanned and digital documents detailing borrowers’ income, assets and other application information.
The CEO of the leading open-source software company, a subsidiary of IBM, told CRN its channel has a massive opportunity in the midmarket by offering a comprehensive portfolio of open-source solutions. “Partners are our lifeblood. We know that, and IBM knows that,” Cormier says.
While higher unemployment and workforce up-skilling are expanding the IT candidate pool, employers are finding many applicants do not possess the right technical skills and experience or the desired soft skills, according to the staffing company.
