‘We are committed to deliver all of our products and solutions as-a-Service in an effort we’re calling Project Apex,’ Dell CEO Michael Dell said during his keynote at Dell Technologies World today.
‘The idea of the solutions that we’re partnering with customers on is really trying to think about it from a protection and preventative measure [perspective],’ Intel’s Gina Merjanian says of the ways the company is working with partners to return some sense of normalcy to the world and reduce disruptions caused by the pandemic.
‘I just want this community to know I haven’t forgotten what made this possible. Thank You’,’ Datto, Inc. founder and board member Austin McChord wrote to MSPs on Reddit.
‘With Project Apex, Dell is finally responding to the strategy HPE initiated three-plus years ago when we began to build our GreenLake business,’ says HPE in a statement to CRN.
‘The biggest thing about Laurie is she had the biggest heart in the world,’ says Chris Saso, who met Laurie in the early nineties and was employee No. 4 at Dasher. ‘Laurie was always looking out for others. Laurie was passionate about the Dasher family. She built a business family that was like her personal family. She took so much pride and joy in that. She was the heart and soul of the company.’
‘We did exactly this in the data center, and I would argue there was never a more important time, or opportunity for us, to demonstrate the value of our integrated innovation,” says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, (pictured, right), speaking at Dell Technologies World Digital Experience alongside Dell COO and Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke.
Cognizant’s latest deal comes after it recently unveiled plans to acquire Microsoft partners 10th Magnitude and New Signature. ‘Companies are increasingly embracing [industrial] IoT, and Bright Wolf’s team of senior IIoT architects have delivered the business value others have struggled to achieve,’ says Malcolm Frank, Cognizant’s president of digital business.
‘They know Datto, and they know the spirit in which it was meant. Again, we never sell direct. So we have no intention of anything other than aligning incentives, aligning our practice, aligning support and technology creation, all for the benefit of MSPs,’ Datto CEO Tim Weller tells CRN.
Big data startup provides way to link business analytics and data-driven applications to data sources scattered across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Intel’s nascent vPro ecosystem enablement team is helping partners identify new ways to monetize the vPro platform while leading integration efforts with MSP vendors like Datto. ‘We recognized over the years that we need to lean in more and we need to understand how we help the channel sell,’ Intel’s Carla Rodriguez says.
‘At our core, the way we go to market is to acknowledge that security has an effectiveness problem. There are lots of new security tools, but the number of security issues continues to grow. We say, it’s not a tool problem, it’s an operations problem,’ says Nick Schneider, Arctic Wolf’s chief revenue officer.
“This is not a security play. I’ve always said that backup is one of the last lines of defense for data, and that data protection vendors should act like security companies. But the real rationale for hiring them is their long expertise in the MSP market,” says Axcient CEO David Bennett (pictured).
Dell Technologies Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Sam Grocott breaks down five key strategies and elements in Dell’s new as-a-service Project Apex launch.
From new Storage-as-a-Service offerings to the new Dell Technologies Cloud Console, here are the eight most important launches and announcements Wednesday at Dell Technologies World.
‘I don‘t think anything big is going to come out of it,’ said Ethan Simmons, managing partner of PTP, a born-in-the-cloud consulting and services firm based in Norwood, Mass. ‘I think it’ll be a slap on the hand, maybe a fine, and it’ll probably be business as usual. It’s going to take years to figure out.’
‘The idea of the solutions that we’re partnering with customers on is really trying to think about it from a protection and preventative measure [perspective],’ Intel’s Gina Merjanian says of the ways the company is working with partners to return some sense of normalcy to the world and reduce disruptions caused by the pandemic.
