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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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NetApp CEO George Kurian: The Digital Economy ‘Rewrites The Rules’
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Businesses have changed, and entire industries are being decomposed and recomposed digitally in real time. This is classic disruption. Except this time, it’s happening at global scale with unprecedented speed,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian in his NetApp Insight keynote.
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NetApp Insight: Going Big On Multi-Cloud Storage, Compute, VDI
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘NetApp is working hard in a really competitive environment to be not just a partner of cloud provider, but to be integrated in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud,’ says John Woodall, vice president of engineering west at General Datatech, a longtime NetApp partner.
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The Top 10 Highest-Rated Tech Companies For Best Compensation 2020
by Donna Goodison
All five so-called FAANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google/Alphabet – ranked in the top 10 of Comparably’s list for the first time.
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Talks Citrix Partnership Amid Global Pandemic
by Joseph Tsidulko
Citrix CEO David Henshall interviewed his counterpart at Microsoft this week for the Citrix Workspace Summit.
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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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Cognizant To Acquire AWS, Microsoft IoT Partner Bright Wolf
by Dylan Martin
Cognizant’s latest deal comes after it recently unveiled plans to acquire Microsoft partners 10th Magnitude and New Signature. ‘Companies are increasingly embracing [industrial] IoT, and Bright Wolf’s team of senior IIoT architects have delivered the business value others have struggled to achieve,’ says Malcolm Frank, Cognizant’s president of digital business.
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Startup Prime Data Centers Builds New Center In Silicon Valley
by Mark Haranas
As demand for data center services continue to grow despite the COVID-19 pandemic, startup Prime Data Centers is breaking ground on a new facility in Santa Clara, California.
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Zerto Goes Full-in On Continuous Data Protection, Long-term Retention Over Backup
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Our goal is a package not just for 10 percent, 20 percent, or 30 percent of applications. We want to work with any application using Zerto’s continuous data protection for all recovery requirements in a cost-effective way to provide long-term data retention,’ says Andy Fernandez, Zerto’s product marketing manager.
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Nokia To Modernize Its IT Infrastructure On Google Cloud
by Donna Goodison
‘In winning Nokia, Google is again demonstrating that they are operating at a scale to compete (for) new business that only AWS could have won five years ago and either AWS or Azure could have won three years ago,’ says Jeff Valentine, chief technology officer at CloudCheckr, a Google Cloud partner. ‘GCP is moving up-market, and that’s a win for Google Cloud partners that service enterprises rather than SMBs.’
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Why Data Center Spending Will Hit $200B In 2021: Gartner
by Mark Haranas
‘Much of the reduced demand in 2020 is expected to return in 2021 when staff can physically be onsite,’ says Naveen Mishra, Gartner’s senior research director.
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Microsoft Channel Chief On The Biggest Teams Revenue Opportunities For Partners
by Kyle Alspach
Solution providers are driving revenue on everything from Teams deployment, to advisory services, to managed services, Microsoft’s Gavriella Schuster tells CRN.
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Microsoft’s WFH Policy Will Spread, But Data Security ‘Needs To Be Addressed’ By Employers
by Kyle Alspach
Companies seeking to emulate Microsoft’s permanent work-from-home option must invest in more than just network security, one solution provider told CRN.
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Microsoft Makes Work-From-Home A Permanent Option
by Kyle Alspach
It’s “now standard” that Microsoft employees will get to work from home at least part of the time, a Microsoft executive says.
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