‘We saw people pull back when VMware got bought by Dell,’ a large VMware partner says. ‘They were worried about what they were going to do (to the company). We got through it ok, but there was a quarter or two where it was pretty shaky.’
‘We have adjusted our plan to increase our cash runway through to profitability and significantly strengthened our balance sheet,’ said co-CEOs David Hatfield and Jay Parikh.
Qumu CEO Rose Bentley, who previously worked as the sales and operations leader for Cisco-owned CloudCherry, talks to CRN about why the asynchronous video engagement platform is great upsell or add-on for collaboration-focused partners and businesses.
‘We are, in a sense, restructuring the contracts from perpetual to subscription. That’s why, depending on where you see it, you’ll see a slower growth at the beginning—if any—followed by a more rapid growth as we convert more to subscription,’ says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan.
‘Remote and hybrid employees are still in an environment where they can possibly be a risk to the corporate organization,’ Linksys’ Homaira Kaufman tells CRNtv.
‘We have a commercial framework agreement that we negotiated with VMware as we did the spin last year. And we would expect that that continues,’ says Tom Sweet, Dell’s executive vice president and CFO.
Moogega Cooper, lead planetary protection engineer of the famed famed Mars Rover Perseverance mission shares her story and encourages women of the channel to ‘remember that spark’ and use to drive their career.
‘ConnectWise is focused on continuously improving our products and partner experience, and we need outstanding, proven leaders at the helm to do that successfully,’ says Jason Magee, CEO of ConnectWise. ‘That’s why we are thrilled to welcome both Todd and Ciaran to our executive team. We are excited to see the contributions they will make to ConnectWise and our valued community through their expertise and leadership.’
The blockbuster $61 billion acquisition deal currently on the table between Broadcom and VMware has a $1.5 billion and $750 million termination stipulations.
‘Whether it‘s private, public, or hybrid cloud, data center, cybersecurity, or managed services, our expanded breadth of integrated services and solutions is resonating with our customers who increasingly seek to partner with a skilled IT service partner to achieve their business objectives and maximize their return on investment,’ says ePlus CEO, President, and Director Mark Marron.
While the tech giant is still plagued by current supply chain challenges, Cisco stayed in first place for the third consecutive year in Gartner’s Global Supply Chain Top 25 report thanks to its ability to adapt internally and externally, Gartner said.
‘There’s an opportunity to embrace the channel,’ said Broadcom Software Group President Tom Krause. ‘The two-tier distribution model, with distribution partners and key value added resellers. When I look at that in its totality, what we can’t do today, we can definitely take advantage of with the newfound scale between the two companies.”
The PC behemoth locked down revenue records for its most recent fiscal year, but executives say shipments will slow down after factories in China were hit with COVID-19 lockdowns.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reports 83 percent year-over-year growth in data center technology revenue, making it the big driver for Nvidia’s first fiscal quarter 2023 and helping give the high-performance GPU, DPU and CPU maker a strong start to its new fiscal year.