‘We will be leaning in to the channel more heavily than ever before to take advantage of what could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do amazing things in the market,’ says Dell Technologies President Bill Scannell, who is tasked with hiring a new global channel chief.
If Arm becomes a publicly traded company again, it wouldn’t' be a surprise. At its TechCon conference last year, Arm CEO Simon Segars said the company planned to go public again by 2023 — a goal set in place by SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son.
‘The channel partners are going to look at who we put in this role, and it’s going to signal whether we’re committed to the channel or not,’ says Dell Technologies president Bill Scannell, in regard to selecting a new global channel chief.
“We had to do everything remotely. There was probably some lag time. Especially since we were setting up our own personnel to work remotely at the same time. There is a difference in video vs. in-person meetings,” says David Darmstandler, CEO and co-founder of Datapath.
“We love cash and having a strong balance sheet. But anything to help with orchestration in the cloud is gold to us. We are considering perhaps acquiring this technology rather than building it because everything is moving so fast,” says Nasuni founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez.
The San Francisco startup implements ‘edge-to-code’ distributed tracing, enhanced by artificial intelligence, to provide visibility into what are often blind spots in cloud-native applications—the APIs that link microservices.
A Google Cloud product manager explains why the new encrypted virtual machines run on AMD EPYC processors and not Intel Xeon: 'The beauty of this idea: The customers don't need to change anything. Every application that they ran before in normal VMs will continue running in Confidential VMs.'
‘Our last channel program was a bit complex. We tried to reward a lot of different behaviors. It was hard for partners to figure how they get rewarded for what. Partners would have to do some serious math calculations to see what they could expect,’ says Mercer Rowe, vice president, Commvault‘s global partner organization.
‘Given that SIEM ingests a tremendous amount of data, customers are looking for more scalability and elasticity as they leverage cloud services to their benefit,’ says McAfee’s Anand Ramanathan.
The nine justices will hear lawyers argue the copyright dispute on Oct. 7 over Google’s use of Java APIs to develop its Android mobile operating system. Oracle says the illegal use of Java code knocked the company out of the smartphone market, and seeks billions in compensation.
‘This lets HPE play in the SD-WAN market with some really exciting software defined networking technology,’ says CPP Associates Director of Professional Services Michael Maher. ‘Ultimately it further erodes Cisco’s hold on the market because HPE is going to be able to bring a more competitive solution to customers that are starving for alternatives.’
‘For partners, the CCaaS market was growing before COVID and the only thing we've seen since then is an acceleration -- it's boom time,’ UJET tells CRN.
“Silver Peak’s technology transforms legacy WAN architectures to self-driving WANs, which is a perfect fit with Aruba’s cloud-native, AI-driven Edge Services Platform,” said HPE Aruba president Keerti Melkote.
The managed cloud company has transformed in the four years since it privatized from a competitor of the public cloud giants to one of their largest partners. After rebranding as Rackspace Technology last month, the company looks to reenter the public stock market in anticipation of a new wave of cloud adoption and digital transformation
‘Dell Technologies is never going to stop innovating, is never going to stop listening, it’s never going to stop trying to improve our processes, our programs and our effectiveness. Partners should bet on Dell,’ says Dell’s Channel Chief Joyce Mullen.
The CRN Test Center compares Apple‘s latest MacBook Air with Dell’s XPS 13 for 2020.
