‘I am here today to personally commit that every single day Intel will work tirelessly to be an incredible partner to you,’ Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told partners in his keynote at this week’s virtual Intel Partner Connect. Meanwhile, company executives said Intel is improving on supply issues, ironing out issues with Intel Partner Alliance and working to improve partner access to resources throughout the company.
‘Every company on the planet came to the realization that they needed to [have] modernized IT infrastructure. So, the opportunity for all of the partners here is also that everyone is moving [forward] from wherever they are. If they were advanced, they’re trying to get even more advanced. And if they were behind, they realized they never want to be in that situation again,’ Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells CRN.
‘People are recognizing the inherent value that distribution provides into the marketplace and into the community. And they recognize that value both from a legacy standpoint, traditional types of things that everybody knows about. ... But they also acknowledge and recognize the investments that are being made in order to take advantage of the digital transformation,’ says GTDC CEO Frank Vitagliano.
‘Microsoft has given me the opportunity and the freedom to chart the course for my future, and so I’m incredibly grateful and I plan to focus much more of my time on driving for that inclusive workforce,’ former Microsoft partner chief Gavriella Schuster tells CRNtv.
‘One infected workload can infect thousands of other workloads in the cloud. Then you can try to say, ‘Cloud is bad.’ [But I’d say,] ‘No, it’s not the cloud that’s bad. It’s the network security that’s bad,’’ says Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry.
‘Our software runs on AWS, on Azure, on-prem, and it allows you to not only move your data, but it gives the same interfaces to the applications themselves, meaning that you can move your applications between these three environments. So it gives you ultimate choice,’ says Charles Giancarlo, Pure Storage chairman and CEO.
Partners looking to stay relevant in the next generation of application environments need to provide customers with the tools necessary to scale in those environments, says Pure Storage Chairman and CEO Charles Giancarlo, adding that ‘this is where Portworx comes in.’
Moving to the cloud won’t solve all security woes, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells CRN. A holistic approach to architecting a secure overall environment is what’s required in today’s hybrid cloud world, solution providers add.
From why the cloud is safer than on-premises to VARs walking away from large box vendors to the need to protect workloads like we do applications, here’s a look at 10 notable statements made by Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry.
Managed print services providers see signs that office printing is starting to return, leading to revenue growth opportunities—but serving at-home print needs will continue to be crucial.
Deep Instinct plans to use 35 percent of its Series D funding for research and development to help enterprises autonomously process and analyze all of information coming from their security products.
Kyligence develops an advanced data analytics platform, based on the open-source Apache Kylin analytics engine, that’s capable of performing multi-dimensional analysis on huge volumes of data.
Trend Micro has updated its channel program to drive the recruitment of partners with a deep understanding of how Amazon Web Services infrastructure is configured.
‘What is fun is HPE has an unusual talent from the very beginning in Silicon Valley of working together with others and creating a win-win innovation approach,’ says former Cisco CEO John Chambers, the current chairman of Pensando, which is teaming with HPE on the edge computing opportunity.
Processes, people and tools are the three areas to focus on for MSPs investing in automation and standardization to improve revenue and lower costs, says David Weeks, senior director of partner experience at N-able.
‘Every company on the planet came to the realization that they needed to [have] modernized IT infrastructure. So, the opportunity for all of the partners here is also that everyone is moving [forward] from wherever they are. If they were advanced, they’re trying to get even more advanced. And if they were behind, they realized they never want to be in that situation again,’ Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells CRN.
