Partners: Dell Backing Off Of VMware Merger 'Keeps The Peace' With OEMs

VMware stock is up on Monday following a Bloomberg report that Dell Technologies is "leaning against" the option of merging with VMware.
VMware stock is up on Monday following a Bloomberg report that Dell Technologies is "leaning against" the option of merging with VMware.
Five millennial-aged channel leaders from a master agent, an IT distributor, and an MSP organization, are launching NextGen Channel, an advisory council and forum focused on supporting and accelerating the next generation of channel leaders from solution provider and supplier organizations.
When a technology can completely change the way a business operates, you'd better get on board. Solution providers are calling SD-WAN the biggest sales driver in almost two decades.
After the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company hired AMD veteran Raja Koduri to lead Intel's new Core and Visual Computing Group last fall, the company is reportedly planning to build discrete GPUs for gaming and data center video streaming apps.
Partners say HP has shown impressive innovation and has a strong strategy for continuing the momentum in PC and print.
Gong.io's technology automatically records sales calls and videoconferences, transcribes them, and then uses AI and machine learning to analyze hundreds of data parameters within each call.
'Packaging this and making the pricing affordable for small businesses is a game-changer, and they've done that now,' says Chad Paalman, CEO of MSP NuWave Technology Partners, who previewed the new dashboard.
The marketing solutions specialist says the combined companies will focus on enabling digital transformation for end customers.
Recorded Future expects to encounter security vendors with the money but not the staff, to build integrations as the threat intelligence vendor grows its new Connect Xchange technology partner community.
Symantec's Targeted Attack Analytics can look at all the machines in a single enterprise and collate the telemetry with the endpoints to verify if there's an active attack taking place inside the network.
Microsoft, IBM, Dell and HPE all are urging the Pentagon to abandon a presumed winner-take-all, multi-billion contract for AWS. Oracle launched the effort after REAN Cloud, an AWS partner, won a lucrative cloud modernization project.
Accenture's Kathleen O'Reilly shares her tips on how companies can navigate the challenges of data management to boost their business.
The CEO of Onapsis tells CRN that after two years of working with channel partners and seeing multiple seven-figure deals come through, the company plans to double down on its channel program.
Weisler also said during Executive Forum 2018 that his biggest fears are "arrogance and complacency," not competitors.
With Extreme Capital Solutions, the networking company is taking a new approach to the way customers finance their purchases, as well as how partners get paid.
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Three Questions For Incoming Tech Data CEO Rich Hume Incoming Tech Data CEO Rich Hume spoke with CRN about the key challenges he sees in the IT industry going forward and the "hugely important" Avnet acquisition. |
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CRN Interview: HPE Aruba VP Lunetta On Partners' Must-Have Security Skills And Why Machine Learning Is Like Carpentry HPE Aruba executive Larry Lunetta speaks with CRN about why the company wants to empower partners to take on a new set of skills and embrace an open, machine-learning-based philosophy. |
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2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report: 5 Pressing Security Trends Partners Need On Their Radar Verizon's 2018 Data Breach investigation report pointed to ransomware as the biggest offender impacting businesses right now. |
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