The departure, which Gilroy described in a LinkedIn post as 'retiring from Samsung,' comes as the company is embarking on expanding its partner ranks and bolstering its channel program.

Tom Corn, senior vice president of security products, spoke with CRN ahead of VMWorld 2017 about the benefits AppDefense delivers in locking down production IT environments and how VMware sees those capabilities impacting the wider security market.

"This technology will be foundational for us," Forcepoint CEO Matt Moynahan said in an interview with CRN.

Master agent Telarus has enhanced its circuit monitoring service to include network outage resolution via its new NOC, arming telecom agent partners with MSP-like capabilities, according to Telarus' co-founder, Patrick Oborn.

Solution providers - including Computex Technology Solutions of Houston - are proactively working with customers to keep their IT operations up and running in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

VMware AppDefense, formerly known as "Goldilocks," takes advantage of insight provided by VMware's NSX software-defined networking platform to protect applications from attempted hacks even when run in virtual machines.

VMware Cloud Services consists of six software-as-a-service offerings the company expects will help channel partners bring traditional and modern workloads to flexible hybrid cloud infrastructures.

AWS Channel Chief Terry Wise told CRN that It will likely be the larger systems integrators who will be the initial adopters of VMware Cloud on AWS, but it will "rapidly expand to hundreds of thousands of partners."

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman has "communicated a number of changes" she would like to see at the ride sharing company before considering "any offer" to become the next CEO of Uber, according to a Recode report.

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VeloCloud is baking new security solutions into its SD-WAN platform from the likes of Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, ForcePoint, and IBM, giving partners a more integrated networking solution to sell, the SD-WAN startup told CRN.

VMware has much to reveal about its VMware Cloud on AWS offering and how partners can make money on it. Partners hope to get answers at next week's VMworld conference.

Execs say Mimecast plans to solidify its channel strategy by the end of the calendar year with the launch of a refreshed, bigger channel program.

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An executive shakeup that left Intel with a new head of sales and marketing will be a positive thing for the channel, sources told CRN.

As security purchasing decisions move out from under the CISO or IT department, security partners said they are seeing more success framing security as a business risk mitigator, rather than just a hot new technology to prevent threats.

HPE Global Channel Vice President Ken Archer, a highly respected 30-plus-year channel veteran who was recently appointed head of the Pointnext partner business, spoke with CRN about the Pointnext partner sales offensive, rules of engagement and IT services economics.

Exuberance around the open source project, once seen as a major threat to public cloud dominance, has faded. Now established players and a new breed of startups are looking to tame the notoriously challenging cloud-building software.

Intel's Michelle Johnston Holthaus will replace Greg Pearson as the head of the sales and marketing group in early September, according to an SEC filing.

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