From as-a-service and private equity spending to Dell Technologies and Intel, here are ten of the most important data center trends and technologies you should be following in 2021.
As part of the 2021 Women of the Channel, CRN is highlighting 60 female executives at solution provider organizations whose insight and influence in their respective companies help drive channel success.
The acquisition is the largest to date for the Apple device management firm, and will add cloud and mobile security capabilities to Jamf’s enterprise security offerings.
Announcements at IBM Think 2021 include a new competency framework for partners, message acceleration workshops to help partners with marketing and expansion of Cloud Engagement Funds for multiple partner types.
‘In 12 month‘s time we will be making the hard cut-over from a traditional structure where we differentiate our partner tiering based on product certifications and resell revenue to a model that both reduces the number of tiers from five to three and then measures our partners from their overall contribution,’ says Chris Lamborn, head of NetApp’s global partner go-to-market and programs.
The call to subsidize domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research with $50 billion in funding comes from a new coalition of companies that includes Amazon Web Services, Apple, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Microsoft. It’s also backed by IT distributors Avnet and Arrow Electronics. In addition, telecom giants AT&T and Verizon back the funding that was previously authorized — but not appropriated — by Congress.
ServiceNow is applying its digital workflow and IT process management technology and expertise to the manufacturing sector, following its earlier expansion into banking and telecommunications.
The networking giant revealed its intent to buy California-based Sedona Systems for its NetFusion platform, which will help Cisco with 5G network slicing, routed optical networking, and disaggregation.
‘We’re having a lot of people come back who now want to get things in a safer condition and start to add some of the governance, security, and things that they lacked in the interest of speed,’ says Bob Keblusek, CTO of Sentinel Technologies.
‘We’re looking at how we better move forward with customer success and then practice building — how we can help [partners] amplify and accelerate what they’re doing with us around cloud managed services,’ F5’s Channel Chief Lisa Citron tells CRN.
‘With the additional CrowdStrike integrations, the Google Cloud ecosystem continues to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to securing those hybrid architectures,’ says Shannon Rush, a Chicago-based Google Cloud Premier Partner.
‘I can’t comment on the court case — and I’m not going to comment on specifically what DOD is going to do — but I will say…it is absolutely vital that we are able to move forward on a data-centric approach in the department,’ said Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense under the Biden administration.
The chipmaker’s new 10-nanometer CPUs for high-end laptops, code-named Tiger Lake H, go up to 5GHz and eight cores for demanding content creation and business applications, and Intel says they can best rival AMD across multiple applications. ‘If performance improves productivity, these new CPUs will drive productivity increases,’ an Intel rep says.
As part of the 2021 Women of the Channel, CRN is highlighting 60 female executives at solution provider organizations whose insight and influence in their respective companies help drive channel success.
