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IBM’s Jim Whitehurst On Why Red Hat Wins vs. VMware, HPE
by Joseph Tsidulko
Red Hat’s years of experience delivering open source to the enterprise, and the cloud-native methodologies of its OpenShift platform, give the open source leader and parent IBM a leg-up in the rapidly growing hybrid cloud market, Whitehurst says at The Channel Company’s Best of Breed conference.
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Massive Cisco Partner Program Overhaul Will Reward, ‘Elevate’ Partners
by Gina Narcisi
The biggest changes to the tech giant’s partner program structure in more than a decade will help Cisco partners go after lifecycle and everything as-a-service opportunities.
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Microsoft CEO: Teams Surges To 115M Daily Users, Helps Power ‘Strong’ Q1
by Kyle Alspach
The company also reported Azure revenue growth of 48 percent during its fiscal first quarter 2021.
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SAP Suffers Coronavirus-Induced Stock Plunge
by Joseph Tsidulko
A top partner says the German software giant’s long-term plan of shifting its ERP base to a recurring revenue model is a winner, but the transition isn’t easy.
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5 Emerging AI And Machine Learning Trends To Watch In 2021
by Rick Whiting
AI and machine learning have been hot buzzwords in 2020. As we approach 2021, it’s a good time to take a look at five “big-picture” trends and issues around the growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
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HPE Lays Off Hundreds In North America, Doubles Down On ‘Partner-First’ Model
by Steven Burke
The “Partner First” plan – which integrates the North America inside sales team with the channel - is designed to provide tighter alignment with partners in a simpler and more streamlined go-to-market model aimed at driving growth in midmarket and SMB.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Oct. 23, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Veeam Enhances Offerings To Be A ‘Perfect’ Fit For MSPs
by Kyle Alspach
The data protection and management specialist is continuing to tune its programs and offerings to the needs of MSPs and their smaller customers, Veeam representatives said during the NexGen+ 2020 Virtual Experience.
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger: Dell, VMware Integration Will Enable 5G
by Mark Haranas
‘We did exactly this in the data center, and I would argue there was never a more important time, or opportunity for us, to demonstrate the value of our integrated innovation,” says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, (pictured, right), speaking at Dell Technologies World Digital Experience alongside Dell COO and Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke.
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Cloud And Edge Computing Are Key To ‘Next Normal’: IDC
by Donna Goodison
‘By 2023, every company out there is saying our goal is to transform our business to become more automated,’ says Rick Villars, group vice president of worldwide research at IDC, a Framingham, Mass.-based market research company. ‘Cloud is going to be at the heart of that.’
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Datto CEO Tim Weller: IPO’s ‘MSP’ Ticker Symbol A ‘Shout-Out’ To Our Partners
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘They know Datto, and they know the spirit in which it was meant. Again, we never sell direct. So we have no intention of anything other than aligning incentives, aligning our practice, aligning support and technology creation, all for the benefit of MSPs,’ Datto CEO Tim Weller tells CRN.
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Women Of The Channel Pioneer Laurie Dasher Mourned As ‘Heart And Soul’ Of Dasher Technologies
by Steven Burke
‘The biggest thing about Laurie is she had the biggest heart in the world,’ says Chris Saso, who met Laurie in the early nineties and was employee No. 4 at Dasher. ‘Laurie was always looking out for others. Laurie was passionate about the Dasher family. She built a business family that was like her personal family. She took so much pride and joy in that. She was the heart and soul of the company.’
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Deloitte’s Oracle Cloud Leader: Oracle On Oracle An ‘Easy Entry Point’ To Selling Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
by Joseph Tsidulko
OCI is at a tipping point, Deloitte’s Jeff Davis tells CRN. The tech giant’s public cloud delivers unprecedented performance for industrial-grade workloads at lower costs, but a lot of customers have made up their minds as to their cloud transformation strategies.
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Google Cloud Lands Accenture Exec For Manufacturing Role
by Donna Goodison
The cloud provider can help process manufacturers navigate a ‘critical digital transformation journey,’ whether it’s by helping accelerate their information technology/operational technology convergence efforts with its hybrid and multi-cloud Anthos platform or further industrializing artificial intelligence, according to the newly hired Suchitra Bose.
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