Artificial intelligence wasn't a viable opportunity for midmarket organizations as recently as five years ago, but it's a totally different situation now, industry experts said.
With Rubrik Polaris, Rubrik hopes to attract third-party developers to write apps to provide management, compliance, and governance services across multi-cloud data backed up and archived on its platform.
Brian Madden, a renowned technologist, author and speaker, talks to CRN about why he ended an 18-month sabbatical to join VMware.
Converge Technology Partners, making its fourth solution provider purchase since October 2017, gains a large boost to its cloud business, a closer relationship with IBM and a huge West Coast presence.
Mountford has been with Riverbed as senior vice president and chief sales officer for about four years and notably spent 16 years at Cisco, where he rebuilt and ran the company's channel program.
Intel no longer plans to issue microcode updates to older Core, Pentium, Celeron and Xeon processors, and partners say that could impact smaller companies that don't update their systems as often.
'What we are most focused on in terms of growth for the business in the next 18 months is around AWS and the AWS Connect cloud-based contact center,' says Nathan Ulery, the managing director of West Monroe's fast-growing Performance Services practice.
Gigamon has hired former Riverbed channel leader Michelle Hodges as its new vice president of worldwide partner sales. In her new role, Hodges will help solution providers embrace selling opportunities around security.
The workflow automation software developer wants to incorporate artificial intelligence into its platform, and now has the backing of an institutional investor experienced in software acquisitions.
Cherwell will use the financing to accelerate its global expansion and market its software for digital transformation and other service management tasks.
Jenni Flinders last led Daarlandt Partners, a consultancy advising tech companies on channel strategy.
The AWS Solution Provider Program replaces the AWS Channel Reseller Program.
Channel sales veteran Jeff Seifert is now the global channel chief at business risk intelligence vendor Flashpoint.
'During the consultative process, 90 percent of the time there's not a single product mention or a single technological concept mentioned most of the time,' Chris Gross, Sanity Solutions vice president, tells CRN.
A top Intel IoT executive says the sale is 'designed to sharpen our focus on growth opportunities that align to Intel's data-centric strategy.'
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