VMware CEO Raghuram On ‘Vigorously’ Competing With Nutanix
10 Hot Data Center Technologies And Trends To Watch In 2021
by Mark Haranas
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.
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by Kyle Alspach
The two Cisco Gold partners will ‘combine all of our strengths’ to tackle a $70 billion market in North America with solutions and services that include unified communications, collaboration, networking and security, NWN Carousel CEO Jim Sullivan tells CRN.
by Donna Goodison
Amazon Web Services plans to add a dozen more AWS Local Zones this year.
by CRN Staff
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.
by Wade Tyler Millward
OSF CEO Gerry Szatvanyi tells CRN he is on the hunt for acquisitions and ways to grow his technological capabilities and presence in different geographies and verticals.
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VMware’s New CEO: Dell Spin-Off Creates ‘Switzerland Of Multi-Cloud’
by Mark Haranas
‘What you should look for in the coming weeks, months and years, is that our partnership with the broader ecosystem is as deep and as strong as it is with Dell today,’ says VMware’s new CEO Raghu Raghuram.
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Apple Enterprise Specialist Jamf To Acquire Security Firm Wandera For $400M
by Kyle Alspach
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.
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NWN Carousel CEO Jim Sullivan On The ‘Huge Advantage’ Of Scaling Up In Cloud Communications
by Kyle Alspach
With the acquisition of Carousel Industries by NWN, the combined company will have offices around the U.S. with more than 6,000 customers and a $1 billion run rate.
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AWS, HPE, Other IT Vendors Back $50B Call For U.S. Chip Production
by Dylan Martin
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.
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ServiceNow Continues Vertical Industry Push With OT Management Solution For Manufacturing
by Rick Whiting
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.
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VMware Partner Awards 2021 Go To CDW, WWT, DXC
by Mark Haranas
Here are the winners for VMware’s 2021 Partner Achievement Awards.
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Cisco To Acquire Sedona Systems To Boost Optical Networking Chops
by Gina Narcisi
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.
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Why Michael Dell Is ‘Quite Optimistic’ About The World Economy
by Mark Haranas
‘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.
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F5 Channel Chief Lisa Citron On The Shape Security Deal And How Partners Must ‘Adopt And Expand’
by Gina Narcisi
‘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.
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NetApp Channel Program Redux: Focus On Cloud, A.I., Other Specializations
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘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.
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Google Cloud And CrowdStrike Deepen Security Integrations
by Donna Goodison
‘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.
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IBM Exec: ‘There’s Never Been A Better Time To Be’ A Partner
by Wade Tyler Millward
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.
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