‘There is a lot of change and adjustment going on in the Microsoft channel side of the house,’ Bob Venero, CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Microsoft partner Future Tech Enterprise, tells CRN in an interview.
‘We saw the opportunity to combine the core CloudJumper technology with Spot to let MSPs and others manage virtual desktops in the cloud with all the key components, including security, optimization, data management, application management and resource utilization,’ says Jon Bock, vice president of marketing for Spot by NetApp.
‘We are really starting to reach out to more of the small- and medium-business channel players because that is a very fragmented market. Our channel programs are very effective in hard-to-reach areas. The channel can move fast and fill niches quickly,’ Stephanie Hallford, Intel’s vPro platform leader, tells CRN.
“We hate to see any software products used for malicious purposes, but unfortunately, remote control tools are used for this purpose all too frequently,” said ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Jeff Bishop in an email statement to CRN.
‘We’re looking to help customers solve enterprise resiliency issues across on-premises and the cloud. Every company in the world is vulnerable, especially with the current Ukraine war. We’re ensuring customers can continue to keep their businesses up and running and ultimately serving their end customers,’ says Anneka Gupta, Rubrik’s chief product officer.
‘We have a deep and talented bench of leaders who are in place to deliver business continuity with our partners and programs without interruption,’ says Microsoft executive Nick Parker in a blog post.
The deal, slated to close in the second half of the year, would give investment firm Carlyle one of the leading providers of security, data analytics, and hardware and software solutions to the defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies of the U.S. government.
‘I think once you’ve got that repeatable go-to-market, which I actually think we’re pretty close to, then I think you’re ready to look at partners. And partners are also going to want to know that we’ve got market fit with the product, and we’ve got velocity,’ Observe CEO Jeremy Burton tells CRN.
‘What we are watching the bad guys do is they get free trials of an RMM, then they phish you, they log into your VPN with stolen creds [credentials], they put the RMM down and they use that to put the ransomware down,’ says Blackpoint Cyber founder and CEO Jon Murchison.
‘Red Hat partners like Arm, Nvidia, Intel and more are creating technologies that are more than just smart servers at the edge. These solutions, with the right strategy and software, they can function as clouds that extend way beyond the confines of the traditional data center,’ Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier says in his Red Hat Summit keynote.
“With this product, I can start a conversation with a customer about hyperconverged infrastructure, that doesn’t end at ‘$100,000,’” says Scale partner Mark Essayian, president of KME Systems, an MSP in Lake Forest, Calif.
New Teams and Pro editions of ThoughtSpot’s cloud data analytics software, combined with new pricing models, are expected to expand the company’s potential market reach.