"We're finding today almost 80 percent of our WAN conversations are in the SD-WAN space," said Aqueduct Technologies CEO Manak Ahluwalia.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will invest $5 billion into Internet of Things initiatives over the next four years — a plan that is expected to provide channel partners with new products and services.
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.
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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.
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