The 25 Most Influential Executives Of 2021
CyrusOne CEO Abruptly ‘Separates’ From Data Center Standout
by Mark Haranas
Just one year into his role as president and CEO of CyrusOne, Bruce Duncan suddenly departs from the global data center provider.
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by Steven Burke
The progress Arvind Krishna has made in transforming IBM into a hybrid cloud-AI powerhouse with a renewed focus on partners, innovation and growth has made him the No. 1 Most Influential Executive on CRN’s 2021 Top 100 Executives list.
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘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.
by Steven Burke
‘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.’
by Michael Novinson
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.
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The Top 100 Executives Of 2021
by Kyle Alspach
Here we present the CRN Top 100 Executives of 2021 list, the men and women who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry.
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AWS Maintains Lead As Q2 Enterprise Cloud Spending Tops $40B: Synergy Research
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘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.
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Kaseya ‘Likely’ Got Ransomware Decryptor From REvil: Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan
by C.J. Fairfield
‘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.
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Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan: Kaseya Should Make Billing Concessions To MSPs
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Whether that forgiveness comes today, tomorrow... I have high hopes that [Kaseya] will do something to compensate those partners,’ says Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan.
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Nutanix Channel Chief: ‘Game-Changing’ Red Hat Container Deal ‘Has Meat On The Bones’
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘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.’
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending July 30 CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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AWS Sees 37 Percent Quarterly Growth As Amazon Disappoints
by Donna Goodison
‘(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.
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Fortinet: Product Refresh Is Chance To Displace Incumbents
by Michael Novinson
‘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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5 Things To Know About The Nutanix-Red Hat Container Deal
by Kyle Alspach
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.
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Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ XDR Takes Detection And Response Beyond The Endpoint
by Katie Bavoso
Traditional EDR tools stop at the endpoint, but malicious attacks go much further than that. Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ XDR correlates trends from across your customer base to identify threat patterns so you can stop attacks before they start.
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Google Cloud Now A ‘RISE With SAP’ Strategic Cloud Partner
by Donna Goodison
The expanded partnership will broaden the availability of SAP services available on Google Cloud and customer opportunities for both companies’ partners.
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