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HPE Is ‘Doubling Down’ On VDI As GreenLake Covid-19 Game Changer
by Steven Burke
“I think COVID has given us a tailwind (in the on premise VDI market),” said Erik Vogel, global vice president of customer experience for HPE GreenLake. “Preserving capital liquidity is key for every customer. GreenLake solves that problem.”
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10 Future Cloud Computing Trends To Watch In 2021
by Donna Goodison
From serverless, SASE and AI engineering to joint cloud provider offerings, CRN looks at the cloud trends expected to loom large next year.
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Accenture In Spotlight As Facebook Moderators Protest COVID Work Conditions
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The current crisis highlights that at the core of Facebook’s business lies a deep hypocrisy. By outsourcing our jobs, Facebook implies that the 35,000 of us who work in moderation are somehow peripheral to social media. Yet we are so integral to Facebook’s viability that we must risk our lives to come into work,’ a group of Facebook content moderators wrote.
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IPED COVID-19 Impact Report: ‘Skyrocketing’ Interest In Consumption Models Driving Resurgence In IT Spending
by Joseph Tsidulko
The research arm of The Channel Company sees solution providers recalibrating their practices to meet shifting demand as the pandemic motivates customers to adopt cloud and managed services in lieu of hardware and software upgrades.
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NetApp To Embed Rancher Kubernetes In Its Hyperconverged Infrastructure
by Joseph Tsidulko
The OEM deal is the first for Rancher Labs, a container-tech startup soon to be formally acquired by SUSE. NetApp says the native integration will strengthen its competitive posture against companies like VMware and Nutanix
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Cisco To Buy Banzai Cloud, Boosting Rapidly Emerging Cloud-Native Portfolio
by Joseph Tsidulko
The deal for the Hungarian startup comes on the heels of the acquisition of Portshift. Staff from both startups are bolstering a team of Kubernetes specialists developing new cloud-native networking and security technologies under Cisco’s roof.
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Atos OneCloud Initiative Launches With $2.4B Commitment
by Donna Goodison
‘It’s all based on assets of Atos which have been built over the last quarters or years and sometimes decades,’ Atos CEO Elie Girard told CRN. ‘We’re gathering this internally under the same roof so that our customers can benefit seamlessly (from)…the 10 features, which all correspond to a very strong demand.’
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Google Cloud’s New Serverless Database Migration Service ‘A Fast Track To The Cloud’
by Donna Goodison
‘This really changes the game and makes it possible for more customers to migrate that couldn’t before,’ says Mike Royle, staff cloud architect at DoiT International, the 2019 Google Cloud Reseller Partner of the Year for North America.
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Microsoft Taps Former McAfee CEO To Lead Biz Development
by Donna Goodison
Chris Young’s new duties will encompass leading Microsoft’s strategic partnership opportunities, including alliances, venture investments and joint ventures.
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Red Hat Bolsters Partners With Comprehensive Customer Intelligence Platform
by Joseph Tsidulko
Red Hat Renewals Intelligence provides the channel with a graphical view of customer retention risks and opportunities to grow their businesses.
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Adobe To Acquire Workfront For $1.5B, Scooping Up Marketing Management Expertise
by Joseph F. Kovar
The acquisition, slated to close in the fiscal quarter beginning next month, is expected to tie Workfront’s marketing work management platform to Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Experience Cloud even tighter that they are currently.
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Partner Ready 2021: HPE Steps Up Everything-As-Service Sales Blitz, GreenLake Cloud Service ‘Acceleration’
by Steven Burke
‘GreenLake is the biggest opportunity for the partners,’ says HPE Worldwide Channel Chief George Hope in an interview with CRN. ‘It is margin-rich and it is sticky. If you get GreenLake into an account and you start showing the value to the customer in that account you are immovable from that point forward.’
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Former Dell Executive Takes Helm Of Multi-Cloud Management Vendor Virtana
by Joseph Tsidulko
Kash Shaikh looks to bring years of enterprise leadership experience to the company vying in the red-hot AIOps market. ‘There’s an opportunity to make the company channel-first,’ he tells CRN.
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