Palo Alto Networks has added yet another executive to expand its channel team with the addition this month of Tom Evans to lead its North American public cloud partner sales, CRN has learned.
The strategy behind moving Brown and Sweeney is indicative of VMware's need to stretch beyond its roots in server virtualization and into emerging technologies like cloud orchestration.
During the XChange 2017 conference this week in Orlando, Fla., The Channel Company's CEO Robert Faletra moderated a panel with top solution provider executives, including Michael Knight, John Shaw, Michael Lomonaco and John Head.
"There is no doubt that, under the circumstances, it will be a non-trivial task to find a great successor," said Infosys Co-Chairman Ravi Venkatesan hours after ex-CEO Vishal Sikka's shocking resignation.
Sirius's acquisition of Forsythe would create a 3,000-employee, $3.2 billion solution provider giant with expertise in everything from data center, hosting and security to lines of business, cloud and connectivity.
"Over the last many months and quarters, we have all been besieged by false, baseless, malicious and increasingly personal attacks," wrote Vishal Sikka, who resigned as Infosys' CEO Friday.
The cloud software giant and startup will team to expand the Azure cloud services that can be deployed with HashiCorp's Terraform tool, further enabling DevOps practices and multi-cloud environments.
Buying $300M SPS will provide ConvergeOne more technical expertise, professional services and managed services around Cisco and Avaya, and more depth around its video offerings.
Open Systems Technologies' Michael Lomonaco said solution providers need to balance their old school methods with inbound marketing, social media and a solid content marketing approach.
"We needed words that were going to bring the country together around what happened this weekend. I don't think we got those words," said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, in an interview with CNBC.
XChange 2017 featured dozens of vendors – including Extreme, Ingram Micro, Ruckus Wireless and many others – promoting their automation platforms, data backups, cybersecurity solutions and other offerings. Here are 30 products that stood out from the pack.
The company's flagship product, IoT Guardian, leverages machine-learning capabilities to discover and assess risk and baseline normal behavior, detect anomalous activities and provide real-time monitoring of devices.
CRN's Mark Haranas speaks with Cisco Vice President of Product Management Ramesh Prabagaran at about what solution providers can expect now that Cisco's acquisition of Viptela has closed.
'I do think, in the national security space, we are going to see an increasing budget,' Ken Asbury tells investors on the solution provider's earnings call Thursday.
Those companies that can position SD-WAN as a tool to help customers better achieve their business goals will land more sales in a market ripe for disruption, say solution providers CRN spoke with at XChange 2017.
Dell EMC, Cisco and IBM took top honors at XChange 2017 in the 32nd consecutive Annual Report Card awards, while channel legend Frank Vitagliano earned a coveted spot in the IT Hall of Fame.
Chris Scanlan reveals his departure from Optiv Security on LinkedIn, saying he is taking a sabbatical and will begin looking at new opportunities in mid to late October.
