About
Wade Tyler Millward is an associate editor at CRN, writing about the cloud. Wade has worked in journalism for more than six years, earning accolades from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, the Online News Association and the state press associations of Nevada and North Carolina. He previously covered education technology, financing rounds and mergers and acquisitions for trade publication EdSurge. He also worked as a business reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal daily newspaper. He is based in Oakland, Calif., and graduated from the University of Florida.
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Salesforce Closes $27.7B Slack Acquisition, Preparing For Microsoft Teams Battle
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere,’ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says in a statement.
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The 10 Biggest Cloud Outages Of 2021 (So Far)
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Outages can mean the end for companies, depending on their choices in design and deployment, or they can be complete non-events,’ Miles Ward, chief technology officer at Los Angeles-based Google partner SADA Systems, tells CRN. ‘Cloud has changed the nature of outages.’
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IBM Q2 Sales Fueled By Red Hat, ‘Credibility’ Working With AWS, Microsoft
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Who has the credibility to go across multiple public clouds?’ IBM CEO Arvind Krishna asked rhetorically on the call. ‘Microsoft and Amazon are our partners, not only our competitors. And that is an important play that IBM has done for many, many decades, where we integrate across environments that our clients operate in.’
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Morpheus Data Ramps Up Partner Program With $2M Investment
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘For some of the larger partners who really are investing in us, we want to invest just as much in them,’ Morpheus Chief Marketing Officer Brad Parks tells CRN in an interview.
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Microsoft Inspire 2021: Here Are Our 10 Biggest Takeaways
by Kyle Alspach
Following the two-day virtual partner conference, we’ve pulled together the 10 things that most caught our attention at Inspire 2021.
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Partners Cheer ‘Substantial’ Microsoft Marketplace Fee Cuts
by Kyle Alspach
Solution providers say Microsoft’s reduction in commercial marketplace fees from 20 percent to 3 percent should result in more interest from partners in offering services and applications via the marketplace.
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5 Key Statements From Microsoft Channel Chief Rodney Clark At Inspire 2021
by Kyle Alspach
Clark, who was named Microsoft channel chief in April, spoke about offering partners an ‘effective digital path,’ investments in partner technical capabilities and key partner opportunity areas during his Inspire keynote Wednesday.
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5 Big Partner Announcements At Microsoft Inspire 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
Microsoft is using its Inspire partner conference to launch new advanced specializations and Partner Center portal updates, while also disclosing enhancements for marketplace and ISV partners.
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5 Key Microsoft Security Announcements At Inspire 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘The Microsoft advantage is that you get more for your security dollar,’ Mason, Ohio-based Microsoft partner Interlink Cloud Advisors, Interlink Chief Technology Officer and Partner Mike Wilson tells CRN. ‘The ability to come in and get a set of tools that work well together that have low integration cost because they’re designed to work together out of the same cloud portal is incredibly valuable.’
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Inspire 2021: 5 Big Updates In Microsoft 365, Teams And Industry Clouds
by Wade Tyler Millward
Microsoft’s sixth industry cloud offering, along with new Teams capabilities and a Windows “cloud PC” service, are among the major announcements at the Inspire partner conference this week.
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Inspire 2021: Here’s What Microsoft Partners Want To Hear About
by Wade Tyler Millward
As Microsoft prepares to kick off its virtual Inspire partner conference on Wednesday, solution providers tell CRN they’re hoping the agenda includes updates on Azure, security and partner competencies.
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: June 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
June’s big CEO shakeups include new CEOs at Toshiba America Business Solutions, Cybrary and Exabeam, plus executive changes at Google, Intel and Microsoft.
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Microsoft Patches ‘PrintNightmare’ Vulnerability In Windows, Urges Immediate Install
by Wade Tyler Millward
The vulnerability -- officially dubbed CVE-2021-34527 -- is found in how Print Spooler improperly performs privileged file operations, according to a Microsoft post.
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Acronis Names New CEO With Plans To Expand MSP Base, Partner Investments
by Wade Tyler Millward
“I’m looking forward to really, really accelerating our growth through the partners and our research channels,” new Acronis CEO Patrick Pulvermueller, GoDaddy’s former partners business president, told CRN in an interview. “That’s what I believe in. That’s what I’ve been doing for 20 years. And that’s what I’m really passionate about doing.”
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