From first-quarter growth to new hiring and new board members, SADA Systems CEO Tony Safoian tells CRN what to expect from the Google Cloud Premier Partner.
‘We are solely focused on making this a hugely powerful platform. We’re currently running away from the rest of the pack in terms of features,’ KnowBe4 Founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman 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.
‘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.
Top Intel PC sales exec Steve Long says the chipmaker is arming partners with tools to sell Intel Evo-branded laptops, which is part of a larger push in the PC market. ‘It is an invest year in the client business. We’ve invested not only in our partners and our products and our programs but also in our go-to-market motions,’ he tells CRN.
Hackers entered the unidentified victim’s network through a Pulse Secure VPN appliance, moved laterally to the victim’s SolarWinds Orion sever, installed Supernova malware, and stole credentials, federal officials revealed.
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.
‘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.
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.