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Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce Join COVID-19 Vaccination Records Initiative
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Open standards and interoperability are at the heart of VCI‘s efforts and we look forward to supporting the World Health Organization and other global stakeholders in implementing and scaling open global standards for health data interoperability,’ says Paul Meyer, CEO of The Commons Project Foundation, the non-profit developer of the CommonHealth and CommonPass projects.
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Synnex CEO On 2021: ‘We Expect That Business Investment Will Increase, Especially In IT’
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Overall, we are optimistic about fiscal 2021 given the start of vaccine rollouts, and we are hopeful our world returns to a closer sense of normalcy over the next year,’ says Synnex President and CEO Dennis Polk.
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Atos And DXC Technology Deal ‘Not For The Faint Of Heart:’ Analyst
by O’Ryan Johnson
MoffettNathanson anticipates that the combined entity could see about $300 million in cost synergies, but would not be able to increase revenues in the first year beyond one percent.
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New Commvault Channel Chief John Tavares Discusses 2021 Channel Focus
by Joseph F. Kovar
John Tavares, who joined Commvault last month after 25 years in Dell and EMC channel and sales roles, promises a renewed focus on helping the company’s solution providers take better advantage of public clouds, and promises to bring Commvault’s Metallic SaaS platform to the fore.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Jan. 8, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Intel Unifies Partner Tools With New Intel Partner Alliance Portal
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker’s channel partners will no longer need to juggle multiple logins thanks to the new Intel Partner Alliance online portal, which launches Jan. 11 and provides personalized content and a consolidated hub of benefits in a bid to improve engagement with partners.
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ePlus Acquires Systems Management Planning For Strong AI, Collaboration Expansion
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘In 2021, the industry as a whole will see a focus on managed services, cloud, and security as a way to enable digital transformation for remote workforces. Businesses will continue to adapt to the new IT constraints that exist. We’re pretty well positioned in all these areas,’ says Kley Parkhurst, ePlus’ senior vice president of corporate development.
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Datto Offers All MSPs Free Scanner To Find Signs Of FireEye, SolarWinds Hack
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Now is a time to remain vigilant and take an active role in hardening systems against these, now known, tactics,’ Datto CISO Ryan Weeks writes in a blog post announcing the scanner.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Dec. 18, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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The Channel Company Launches Women Of The Channel Leadership Network
by Gina Narcisi
‘Every member is going to be at a different place in their professional journey, so we want this to be a welcoming site for everyone—whether that be sales, marketing, [human resources] or finance, and from CEOs to those just starting their careers in the channel,’ says the leader of the Women of the Channel Leadership Network and channel veteran, Kim Stevens.
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Microsoft Channel Veteran David Willis To Depart
by Kyle Alspach
Willis, corporate vice president of the U.S. One Commercial Partner group at Microsoft, has been with the company since 1992.
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Sirius Acquires Champion Solutions Group, Doubling Its Microsoft Business
by O’Ryan Johnson
Champion Solutions Group CEO Chris Pyle will become president of the MessageOps business and its flagship product, Inscape, within Sirius. Inscape is a cloud monitoring and management tool built for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure customers that now boasts more than 1 million users.
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IBM Plans Massive European Layoffs Ahead Of ‘NewCo’ Spin-off: Report
by O’Ryan Johnson
The layoffs are thought to be an effort to streamline IBM’s systems integration business ahead of a spin-off CEO Arvind Krishna announced in October.
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Manufacturing App Developer Aveva Opens Full Software Portfolio To Channel Partners
by Rick Whiting
The launch of the new Aveva Select program creates opportunities for industrial distributor resellers to sell the company’s entire line of software beyond its Wonderware manufacturing plant operation applications.
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