Proofpoint claims ex-Director of National Partner Sales Samuel Boone shared with Abnormal’s sales leaders and engineers a ‘battlecard’ that outlines Proofpoint’s strategies for competing against Abnormal’s sales tactics.
‘This partnership, I often refer to it internally as a game-changing partnership in today’s hybrid multi-cloud world,’ Nutanix channel chief Christian Alvarez tells CRN in an interview. ‘This partnership has meat on the bones. What does it mean to our partners — I would have to say that, first and foremost, customers want choice, customers are demanding choice. And not just from manufacturers like Nutanix but from the partners that they’re buying from.’
‘Since Emsisoft is the one that got it, I think it’s probably more likely that that REvil team or a REvil affiliate leaked it,’ says Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan.
‘Jas was a huge asset to the channel community, her sales teams and HPE in general,’ says Paul Cohen, vice president of sales for New York-based PKA Technologies, one of HPE’s top Platinum partners. ‘She has been a highly respected HPE executive for 26 years...Whenever we had a specific issue Jas would jump in at a moment’s notice.’
In a shot against VMware, the new strategic partnership will include promoting Red Hat OpenShift as the ‘preferred’ option for running Kubernetes on the Nutanix Cloud Platform.
‘(AWS) has been 15 years in the development, and we think our scale and experience really pays dividends,’ says Brian Olsavsky, Amazon’s chief financial officer.
‘Some of the other cloud providers are growing at very healthy rates, but Amazon is proving to be an extremely tough competitor,’ Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale writes in a new report.
‘The problem is that with the very strong move to cloud and the accelerating move to cloud that we described several times, this infrastructure is being underutilized much faster than the ability to consolidate those data centers. So there is here as well a very strong case for joining forces with partners to fill, if you like, those data centers and this infrastructure. So there is a very clear case and business rationale behind all that,’ says Elie Girard, Atos CEO and director.
‘Whether that forgiveness comes today, tomorrow... I have high hopes that [Kaseya] will do something to compensate those partners,’ says Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan.
‘Some of our competitors and legacy players have a shorter list of customers and a shorter list of products. And maybe they‘re not doing as well in the Gartner Magic Quadrant as we are, so we view that as an opportunity,’ says Fortinet CFO Keith Jensen.
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The expanded partnership will broaden the availability of SAP services available on Google Cloud and customer opportunities for both companies’ partners.
Two weeks after reports it was in talks to be acquired, SAS, one of the IT industry’s largest privately held companies, said Thursday that it is taking financial and operational steps in preparation to go public.
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HVR is seeing growing demand for its data replication technology as it works with solution providers and systems integrators on large-scale cloud migration and business transformation projects.
‘This partnership, I often refer to it internally as a game-changing partnership in today’s hybrid multi-cloud world,’ Nutanix channel chief Christian Alvarez tells CRN in an interview. ‘This partnership has meat on the bones. What does it mean to our partners — I would have to say that, first and foremost, customers want choice, customers are demanding choice. And not just from manufacturers like Nutanix but from the partners that they’re buying from.’
