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Keerti Melkote On The Aruba Team’s ‘Blood, Sweat and Tears’ And His Future Plans: Exclusive
by Gina Narcisi
With the news that Aruba Networks founder Keerti Melkote is leaving the company, the tech visionary shares with CRN why now was the time to leave and describes how Aruba’s portfolio is ‘on fire.’ He also tells CRN that HPE CEO Antonio Neri has been and will continue to be Aruba’s ‘biggest cheerleader.’
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Aruba Channel Leaders On As-A-Service, Silver Peak SD-WAN, And Opportunities At The Edge
by Gina Narcisi
Aruba’s vice president of Worldwide Channels, Donna Grothjan, and vice president of North America Channels, Jim Harold shared the big opportunities they see for partners around the biggest IT trends: as-a-service, SD-WAN, and the edge.
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10 5G Vendors Leading The Revolution In 2021
by Gina Narcisi
From the telcos competing to build out the biggest 5G networks, to the startups creating ground-breaking private enterprise 5G and edge computing technologies, here are ten 5G vendors leading the way in 2021.
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F5 Channel Chief Lisa Citron On The Shape Security Deal And How Partners Must ‘Adopt And Expand’
by Gina Narcisi
‘We’re looking at how we better move forward with customer success and then practice building — how we can help [partners] amplify and accelerate what they’re doing with us around cloud managed services,’ F5’s Channel Chief Lisa Citron tells CRN.
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Extreme Networks’ Natalia Vianden On Partner Evolution And Diversity As Company Celebrates 25 Years
by Gina Narcisi
In celebration of the networking giant’s silver anniversary, Extreme’s director of global channel programs, Natalia Vianden, shared her two decades’ worth of channel experiences, the trends shaping the IT industry, and the importance of diversity and inclusion in the evolution of Extreme Networks.
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Juniper Networks’ Rami Rahim On Enterprise, Automation, And How Juniper Mist Is ‘In A League All Its Own’
by Gina Narcisi
‘In the first quarter of this year, orders were up 20 percent year-over-year. And that’s essentially because I don’t think we have had this level of technology differentiation for the enterprise ever, at Juniper,’ the company’s CEO Rami Rahim tells CRN.
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Verizon Channel Chief Wendy Taccetta: ‘We Can Be Part Of The Story Of This Country Coming Back’
by Gina Narcisi
‘Easy to do business with’ hasn’t historically been the brand of Verizon’s channel program, but the carrier’s newly-minted channel chief and small business lead Wendy Taccetta already has the wheels in motion to create a ‘single door’ for partners to work with Verizon. She’s also busy helping partners see the opportunities beyond connectivity, especially for SMB customers bouncing back from COVID-19.
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Here Are Arista Networks’ Highest Paid Executives
by Gina Narcisi
Arista Networks’ CEO Jayshree Ullal was the highest-paid of the tech company’s named executives in 2020. Here’s what the rest of Arista’s top executives earned last year.
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Chuck Robbins’ 10 Boldest Remarks On Cisco Plus, Webex Investments, And Enterprise 5G Opportunities
by Gina Narcisi
‘Every company on the planet came to the realization that they needed to [have] modernized IT infrastructure. So, the opportunity for all of the partners here is also that everyone is moving [forward] from wherever they are. If they were advanced, they’re trying to get even more advanced. And if they were behind, they realized they never want to be in that situation again,’ Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins tells CRN.
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Aruba Atmosphere 2021: 5 Bold Statements We Heard From Aruba, HPE, And Silver Peak
by Gina Narcisi
Aruba‘s Keerti Melkote, Aruba’s parent HPE’s Antonio Neri, and Silver Peak’s David Hughes came out at Aruba Atmosphere 2021 in full-force to talk edge, SD-WAN, and how the company has a leg up on the competition when it comes to the IT as a service trend.
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6 New And Useful Cisco Webex Features For 2021
by Gina Narcisi
The Webex team has unveiled more than 400 new or upgraded features in the last six months. From in-meeting gestures to real-time translation in more than 100 languages, here’s a small sampling of some of the last Cisco Webex features.
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The 10 Coolest IoT Connectivity Companies: The 2021 Internet Of Things 50
by Dylan Martin
IoT connectivity is no easy feat, which is why many companies are racing to create new capabilities in how devices connect to networks and send data. What follows are the 10 coolest IoT connectivity companies of 2021.
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Cisco’s Oliver Tuszik: ‘We Need Partners’ To Be Successful With Consumption-Based IT
by Gina Narcisi
‘Don’t focus on Cisco being your competitor -- that’s stupid. We need our partners to be successful. Focus on the competition that you have in the market from [other partners],’ Cisco Channel Chief Oliver Tuszik says in a message to partners.
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Cisco Live 2021: 5 Bold Statements We Heard From Cisco Leaders
by Gina Narcisi
Cisco’s executive leadership team this week talked technology updates and integrations, but perhaps more importantly, shared their perspectives with CRN and more than 100,000 attendees on the major trend that shaped IT for businesses and channel partners over the past year: hybrid work.
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