Cisco has been on a mission to become a software company in recent years and the tech giant is now aiming for sales from subscriptions to make up half of its revenue by fiscal 2025. Here‘s what Cisco’s CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team said about its plans to further subscriptions.
In a people-first approach, tech companies have really homed in on helping others in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. People magazine’s 100 Companies That Care 2021 runs through many of those companies who are giving back and putting forward efforts to help their own and others in the community.
‘Gryphon Investors had a strategy to grow a great ServiceNow ecosystem partner company specializing in creative solutions. I bought into what they planned. The truth is, there’s a great growth opportunity in the ServiceNow ecosystem. We realized the opportunity to grow something special,’ says Matt Stoyka, Highmetric CEO.
‘Coppei helps us come in early to look at customers’ requirements. We can then design and develop the solution after the Coppei team looks at the business case and what we can do to help the business,’ says Fima Katz, Exadel co-founder and CEO.
VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram talks to CRN about the benefits of the upcoming spin-off from Dell Technologies, VMware’s recent stock drop, SaaS driving more innovation and his thoughts on the new Nutanix and Red Hat partnership.
IT by Design CEO Sunny Kaila and his wife CRO Kam Kaila aim to solve MSPs’ talent issues with Team GPS, which will assist in engaging with employees and how to move forward in the new normal of hybrid work.
Dell, HPE, NetApp, Huawei, and Pure Storage all showed double-digit growth in worldwide enterprise external OEM storage revenue, according to IDC, but the continuing drop in Hitachi and IBM revenue means Pure Storage, now at No. 7, could soon take the No. 5 spot.
‘Cisco is one of the biggest software companies in the world and I don’t think anyone thinks of Cisco in those terms,’ Scott Herren, Cisco’s CFO, said during the company’s Investor Day Wednesday.
Tenable products give security teams the ability to rate threats across their entire attack surface, from IT to OT to Active Directory. This shows them where the greatest threats lie, allowing them to allocate time and resources efficiently.
‘When you go public, it demonstrates that you‘re playing with the big boys and you’ve got a certain level of credibility. And I think we’ll be able to attract even better talent,’ ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch tells CRN.
‘Storage management, monitoring and data protection as out-of-the-box capabilities will allow for a reduction in IT operating costs,’ says Kashif Rahamatullah, national Google Cloud practice and alliance leader at Deloitte Consulting. ‘Given the automation and network resiliency offered by Google Cloud, it will allow technology teams to reallocate talent to other higher-priority activities.’
The vulnerabilities are associated with an open-source software agent embedded in Microsoft Azure tools, according to Wiz, which says the affected services have not yet been fixed by Microsoft.
“We’ve been driving business to cloud for quite a bit now, so it’s actually been great when Microsoft backs up their words with actions,” Kelly Yeh, president of Chantilly, Va.-based Microsoft partner Phalanx Technology Group, tells CRN in an interview. “It definitely gives us a lot more credibility to our clients that we’re selling these cloud solutions to.”
Dettbarn, whose company specializes in Apple device management software, speaks with CRN about the recent iMessage exploit, Apple’s product announcements this week and Addigy’s expanded efforts with managed services providers.
‘We all want a world where safety is an invariant, something that is always true, and we can constantly prove we have,’ Bell, a 23-year Amazon vet, says in a LinkedIn post. ‘We all want digital civilization. I believe Microsoft is the only company in a position to deliver this, and I couldn’t be more excited to work with this talented team to make the world safer for every person and organization on the planet.’
‘Think about how pervasive SaaS is, and how fast it is growing. We are focused on the popular SaaS apps, and work with six so far. Our goal is to back up all the popular SaaS apps. We think it’s reachable,’ says Rewind CEO Mike Potter. ‘We’ve done six platforms so far, and we’ve learned a lot from these six, all of which are different. We think we have the right team and the right technology to do them all.’
Citrix is considering a sale following a 16 percent drop in its share price and activist investor Elliott Management buying a 10 percent stake in the company, according to a report from Bloomberg.
In a people-first approach, tech companies have really homed in on helping others in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. People magazine’s 100 Companies That Care 2021 runs through many of those companies who are giving back and putting forward efforts to help their own and others in the community.
