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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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Citrix Exec Vows ‘More Focus On The Channel’ Amid Big Changes
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘The channel is such a big part of our business, it needs focus,’ Hector Lima, Citrix’s executive vice president and chief customer officer, tells CRN in an interview. ‘I don’t think it can stand as a nested team. That was one of the first things I wanted to do was make it stand alone, direct to me, so we can put more focus on the channel as we move into next year.’
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff At Dreamforce 2021: 5 Boldest Statements
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘You look at the incredible market share that Salesforce has been able to achieve, it is because of our “trailblazers,”’ Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff says at Dreamforce 2021 Tuesday.
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5 New Surface Devices Microsoft Just Announced
by Wade Tyler Millward
The new devices include the Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8, Surface Duo 2, Surface Go 3 and Surface Pro X.
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New Slack, Salesforce Integrations Announced At Dreamforce 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
The announcements at Dreamforce 2021 come as many Salesforce partners continue to figure out how Slack fits into their offerings and adds value for customers.
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Here Are 10 Of The Latest Microsoft Azure Updates
by Wade Tyler Millward
“We’ve been driving business to cloud for quite a bit now, so it’s actually been great when Microsoft backs up their words with actions,” Kelly Yeh, president of Chantilly, Va.-based Microsoft partner Phalanx Technology Group, tells CRN in an interview. “It definitely gives us a lot more credibility to our clients that we’re selling these cloud solutions to.”
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Four New Microsoft Azure Vulnerabilities Reported By Cyber Firm Wiz
by Wade Tyler Millward
The vulnerabilities are associated with an open-source software agent embedded in Microsoft Azure tools, according to Wiz, which says the affected services have not yet been fixed by Microsoft.
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Citrix Systems Exploring Sale After Elliott Management Stake, Stock Drop: Report
by Wade Tyler Millward
Citrix is considering a sale following a 16 percent drop in its share price and activist investor Elliott Management buying a 10 percent stake in the company, according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Launches Fresh Attacks On SAP And AWS
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Oracle’s taking massive amounts of share away from SAP ERP,’ Oracle Co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison said on the company’s quarterly earnings call. ‘It’s crucial to our future.’
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison Hits AWS On Cost, Security As He Pounces On Rivals
by Wade Tyler Millward
“We don’t think an application should talk to five or six separate databases,” Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison says about Amazon’s database offerings. “We think it’s a very, very risky security architecture.”
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Microsoft Cloud Automation Software Developer SkyKick Raises $130M
by Wade Tyler Millward
“This is an important milestone, if you will, that recognizes the value that MSPs bring to the market,” co-founder and co-CEO Todd Schwartz said in an interview with CRN.
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Ahead Of IPO, Freshworks Vows Channel Investment Driving ‘Substantial’ Sales
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘We believe that continued growth in our business is dependent upon identifying, developing, and maintaining strategic relationships with additional channel partners that can drive substantial revenue,’ Freshworks says in SEC documents filed Monday.
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Nerdio Passes 1M User Marker As Azure Popularity Grows
by Wade Tyler Millward
“It’s really a validation of the idea that we’ve believed in a lot for a long time,” Joseph Landes, chief revenue officer of the Chicago-based company, tells CRN in an interview. “We think it’s just the beginning.”
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: August 2021
by Wade Tyler Millward
August saw a new CEO at Barracuda Networks, a new president at Palo Alto Networks and a new chief technology officer at Okta. Google Cloud, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services all announced new executives as well.
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IBM Watson Assistant Gains 3 New AI Features
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘The simplification of Watson Studio, Watson ML and AutoAI into a single tool makes it easier to understand and explain the capabilities,’ says Mark Wyllie, CEO of Flagship Solutions Group, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based IBM partner.
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