‘When we have partners with real experts who show up at our customer sites, we hear all about it. And it‘s just incredibly important for maintaining that trust,’ said AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS’ re:Invent conference.
In one of the largest channel mergers in history, CDW has closed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions. Here’s what you need to know.
‘There is way more demand than supply in this industry. ... Customers need help yesterday. They’re behind on their digital transformation plans,’ says Zennify CEO Manvir Sandhu.
The Federal Trade Commission alleges that the deal would ‘harm competition’ in three global markets where Nvidia competes using Arm-based products: high-level advanced driver assistance systems for passenger cars, data processing units, and Arm-based CPUs for cloud service providers.
In an interview with CRN, Matthew Unangst, senior director of AMD’s commercial client and workstation business, talks about the work it takes to convince large organizations to switch to PCs using the chipmaker’s Ryzen Pro processors.
The distributor’s Success Path to Cloud program has been key to the unit’s growth over the past year, providing resources such as training and tools and helping partners leverage managed services to profitably launch, optimize and maximize a cloud practice, says D&H’s Jason Bystrak.
Analysts say the new FTC lawsuit makes the Nvidia-Arm deal very unlikely and would leave Arm with few good options for its future. ‘Unfortunately, in this situation, in order to grow, [Arm needs] a lot of money because they need to be investing in parallel categories beyond mobility,’ one analyst says.
‘SmileBack is allowing partners to get feedback from their customers on what is going well and where any challenges are. We will provide our partners with more insights to help them increase their customer retention,’ April Taylor, ConnectWise vice president of product management, tells CRN.
Deeper integration of Informatica’s data management tools with the Databricks platform will simplify data movement and transformation for data lakehouses and make data available to a wider audience of business users for analytical tasks.
The threat of cyber-attacks has grown exponentially over the last 25 years. Kaspersky has the solutions to help any size MSP, whether they are beginning to offer security services to their clients or have plans to scale to an MSSP.
‘The channel is key to bringing our cyber recovery technology to customers. This gives our partners additional options to implement cyber recovery vaults,’ says Rob Emsley, Dell’s director of product marketing for data protection and cyber resiliency.
‘While Microsoft attempts to check most of the boxes on paper and appeal to the CFO office, in reality, when every second counts, they needed CrowdStrike,’ says CEO George Kurtz about a new customer win.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri told CRN he is not seeing the Dell Apex as-a-service offering in the channel as HPE ends its fourth fiscal quarter with a 114 percent increase in as-a-service orders.
‘In 2021, AWS and AWS partners, we have worked on hundreds of thousands of joint customer opportunities,’ outgoing AWS Channel Chief Doug Yeum said to a crowd during re:Invent this week.
‘As I’ve said many times, our public cloud services not only allow us to participate in the rapidly growing cloud market, but they also make us a more strategic data center partner to our enterprise customers, driving share gains in our hybrid cloud business,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
In one of the largest channel mergers in history, CDW has closed its $2.5 billion acquisition of Sirius Computer Solutions. Here’s what you need to know.
