‘For IT, overall, the pandemic has been a good thing in the fact that more and more of our companies realize that at the heart of it they’ve got to become more digital as a company in order for them to succeed. And I think we’ll see some of the remnants of this continue. I think we’ll all agree that the workforce won’t be the same going forward,’ says Insight Enterprises President and CEO Ken Lamneck.
From VMware and Apex to channel partners and edge computing, CRN breaks down five important announcements and remarks that you might have missed at Dell Technologies World 2021 this week.
Colonial Pipeline - the largest pipeline operator in the United States - took some of its systems offline following a cyberattack Friday, which has resulted in the temporary stoppage of all pipeline operations.
Hackers persistently accessed SolarWinds’ internal systems, Microsoft Office 365 environment and software development environment for months before carrying out their vicious cyberattack, the company said.
Tech Data President of the Americas John O’Shea tells CRN in an exclusive interview that the departure of the company’s North American sales lead had nothing to do with the upcoming merger with Synnex, but was part of a wider shift in executives and business organization aimed at making the distributor more responsive to the needs of an increasingly digital world.
‘We don’t wake up every morning thinking about competition — this marketplace is still more blue ocean than red ocean,’ 2nd Watch CEO Schneider tells CRN in an interview
‘With the added strength of [private equity firm] BPEA’s ownership, the impressive performance of the business, and the strength of the leadership team we have in place, I’ve decided that it’s the right time for me to explore my next chapter,’ says Canekeratne.
The last time AMD saw such a large jump in server CPU shipments was when its server market share peaked in 2006 with Opteron, according to Mercury Research. However, Intel continued to reverse AMD’s share growth in the overall x86 market for a second consecutive quarter, largely thanks to entry-level CPUs.
Mobile apps from leading collaboration software makers and unified communications vendors offer video and audio conferencing, chat and messaging, screen sharing and file sharing, and more on mobile devices.
‘We have built [Apex] to deliver the very model and the very set of capabilities that customers have received from the public cloud, yet give them all of the agility and the control that they desire to have without having to be forced to move data from on-premise to off-premise to control the things that they want,’ says Dell Technologies Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke.
“A couple of years ago we really did position our portfolio to more of a cloud consumption, recurring revenue, AI-oriented technology portfolio … We’re more than poised to take advantage of this opportunity for the foreseeable future,” Avaya CEO Jim Chirico tells CRN.
Observability Cloud, now generally available, combines Splunk’s core machine data management capabilities with management and monitoring tools – some recently acquired – for IT management and DevOps teams.
‘Just more than two months ago, we issued a full year forecast that called for accelerating revenue growth and increasing profitability,’ CEO Jeffrey Davis said in a recent earnings call. ‘Since then, the velocity and intensity of our momentum has only grown.’
Intel IoT sales exec Brad Haczynski tells CRN that partners should embrace the various resources within the new Intel Partner Alliance program to take advantage of emerging IoT opportunities and, when special expertise is needed, collaborate with other partners. ‘We really feel confident that the programs and the solutions that we’re bringing to market are really helping,’ he says.
AWS Marketplace has grown to more than 1,600 ISVs offering 10,000 subscribable product listings in 50 categories, compared to 1,400-plus ISVs and 4,500 listings in 35 categories in 2018, according to newly appointed general manager Stephen Orban.
From VMware and Apex to channel partners and edge computing, CRN breaks down five important announcements and remarks that you might have missed at Dell Technologies World 2021 this week.
