Look Out AWS And Azure – Google Is Betting Big On The Enterprise Channel
Under Diane Greene, Google's enterprise charge is now backed by new leadership, programs and attitude. Partners are cautiously hopeful real change is right around the corner.
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Red Hat CEO Whitehurst On Soaring Stock Success, Open-Source Technologies And Being The 'Last Man Standing' In OpenStack
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst sat down with CRN at the company's North America partner conference to discuss strong financial results and the massive opportunity for the channel around Red Hat's open-source portfolio. -
10 Factors Driving VMware's Sale Of vCloud Air To OVH
VMware's sale of vCloud Air gets the vendor out of the business of owning and operating clouds and fuels French hosting giant OVH's international ambitions. -
Cisco-Backed Elastifile Debuts Data Fabric For Managing Data From On-Premises To Clouds
The Elastifile Cloud File System was designed from the ground-up to manage and migrate any storage workload across on-premises data center and in public or private clouds. -
Cohesity Raises Massive $90M Funding Round, Intros 4th-Gen Hyper-Converged Platform
Cohesity specializes in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions for secondary storage, which makes its platform a tempting partnership for HPE and Cisco. Both IT giants have a stake in Cohesity and participated in the the new funding round. -
Microsoft Upgrades Office 365 'Kiosk Plans' With Advanced Features
The Office 365 K1 SKU, a low-cost option for employees not bound to desks, will get more enterprise-grade features to drive greater collaboration and productivity. -
Entisys360 Disrupts Cloud Services Market With Workspace Cloud For Midmarket Business Transformation
The breakthrough subscription-based service targeted at midmarket customers bests infrastructure- and desktop-as-a-service offerings with a hybrid, multicloud workspace as a service. -
Newly-Minted NetApp Partner CenturyLink To Extend Managed Storage Reselling Opportunities To Partners
CenturyLink has joined NetApp's Unified Partner Program, combining CenturyLink's network and cloud with NetApp's hardware and licensing storage solutions for a managed storage solution for partners and end customers. -
Microsoft Office 365 Services Experiencing Widespread Outage
User authentication problems seem to be behind the failure that is affecting regions across the country. -
Public Cloud Pitfalls: Microsoft Azure Storage Cluster Loses Power, Puts Spotlight On Private, Hybrid Cloud Advantages
Microsoft said its engineering team identified a "storage cluster that lost power and became unavailable" as the preliminary cause of the storage issues which affected the Eastern U.S. -
Hedvig Closes $21.5M Funding Round, HPE Invests In The Software-Defined Storage Startup
Hedvig hopes HPE's equity stake, and the fact that HPE appointed one of its top storage executives as a technical advisor, leads to new opportunities to work with that company and its channel. -
Google's G Suite Gets Collaboration Upgrades
Google unveiled new features to make its popular portfolio of cloud-based office productivity tools better business collaboration and cloud access. -
Google Channel Chief Yansouni On Emerging Partner Program And Challenging Microsoft, AWS For Cloud Dominance
Ahead of Google's big NEXT Cloud Conference, new channel chief Bertrand Yansouni talks with CRN about how he is leveraging Google's expanding partner ecosystem to challenge Microsoft and AWS. -
Partners: HPE's $1 Billion Nimble Storage Acquisition Set To Reshape All-Flash Market, Force Strategic Changes For Competitors
The acquisition of Nimble is HPE's fourth acquisition in the past month, as HPE continues to scoop up disruptive technologies in an effort to boost its leadership in the hybrid cloud market. -
Channel Beat: AWS Outage, Tech Data Closes Avnet TS Acquisition, 2nd Watch Secures More Funding
In a recap of the week's top stories, an AWS outage affects popular websites, Tech Data closes its Avnet Technology Services acquisition, and 2nd Watch nabs more funding. -
Solution Providers: AWS Cloud Outage Proves Relying On Cloud Vendors As Architects Is A 'Mistake'
The AWS S3 outage demonstrates the risk of customers blindly putting their faith in public cloud providers rather than independent cloud architects. -
Lights Out: 7 Notable AWS Outages Since 2011
Tuesday's Amazon Web Service outage was the worst the cloud provider experienced in four years. CRN takes a trip down memory lane to revisit some of those moments Amazon would most likely prefer to forget. -
Veeam Intros First Native Snapshot For Cisco HyperFlex
The new offering allows partners to use Veeam's data protection software to do efficient direct snapshots of data on Cisco HyperFlex hyper-converged infrastructure deployments rather than work through production virtual machines. -
Pure Storage CEO Sees $1B In Sales Next Fiscal Year
Four of Pure Storage's top executives used the fiscal year 2017 earnings call to look forward at new technologies such as NVMe and synchronous replication and to make the case that the company's new FlashBlade unstructured data array can beat Isilon and NetApp. -
Partners: AWS Outage Puts Spotlight On Private Cloud Advantages
Strategic service providers say the AWS outage is a case study in why customers need to look closely at the security and cost benefits of private cloud as they build out their cloud computing IT strategies. -
Nimble Storage Brings Flash-Based Data To The Cloud, Without Cloud Service Lock-In
The new Nimble Cloud Volumes keeps block data on all-flash and hybrid-flash storage in Nimble's own data centers with high-speed, low-latency access to that data available to AWS and Azure public clouds. -
IBM Partner Conference Highlights Hybrid Infrastructure For Powering Cognitive Computing Workloads
"This is race for value, not a race for size," said IBM Cloud SVP told partners. "Amazon is the largest, no question. We're not interested in being as large as Amazon." -
CEO Says NetApp Will Soon Introduce Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Solution Based On All-Flash SolidFire Tech
NetApp chief executive George Kurian said the hyper-converged offering will address the needs of next-generation data centers and hybrid clouds. -
Veeam President: $200M Commitment Aimed At Moving Partners To The Cloud
"Cloud Connect 2.0" as described by Veeam President and COO Peter McKay, will include a large financial commitment of $200M to urge partners to move towards more progressive, recurring revenue business models. -
Big Update For HPE 3Par All-Flash Storage: New Licensing, Improved Data Reduction
The HPE 3Par all-flash arrays are finally getting compression along with other capacity upgrade, and will be easier to sell thanks to the company's move away from line item licensing to an all-inclusive licensing scheme. -
CRN Exclusive: Cohesity's First Worldwide Sales VP To Help Partners Profit From Hyper-converged Secondary Storage
Mark Parrinello wants to expand the company's reach into the channel and work with partners to make sure customers understand Cohesity is not just another hyper-converged infrastructure vendor. -
The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2017
The 2017 installment of CRN's 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors highlights the best of the best in cloud infrastructure, platforms and development, security, storage and software. -
The 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors Of The 2017 Cloud 100
These cloud storage vendors are generating buzz in a variety of facets that together make up one of the most interesting parts of the IT business. -
Carbonite Acquires Double-Take In Bold Move To Add High Availability, Data Migration To Its Data Protection Line
The acquisition, coming on the heels of Carbonite's recent purchase of disaster recovery and business continuity specialist EVault, shows that Carbonite, which started as a consumer cloud backup company, is rapidly becoming a B2B competitor. -
5 Key Google G Suite Updates Partners Need To Know
Google has built in new data security controls into the enterprise version of its popular cloud-based office productivity suite. Here are the updates partner need to know.
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