CRN asks 15 security CEOs, channel chiefs and technical leaders attending RSA 2018 what security-related threats should be keeping MSSPs and CISOs up at night.
As the channel evolves, opportunities are emerging for legacy solution providers to reinvent themselves while up-and-coming leaders are looking for new opportunities.
Wendy Bahr sat down with CRN to discuss how she is pushing Cisco partners to drive the services, software technology and subscription-based consumption models upon which the networking giant is staking its future.
The ride-sharing giant is preparing for an IPO next year and wants to hire VMware CFO Zane Rowe, who was previously EMC's CFO, to lead those efforts, according to a Bloomberg report.
Incoming Tech Data CEO Rich Hume spoke with CRN about the key challenges he sees in the IT industry going forward and the "hugely important" Avnet acquisition.
While IoT software still constitutes a smaller fraction of total revenue, it remained PTC's fastest-growing business, growing 33 percent year over year in the second quarter to $29 million.
Rackspace is helping solution providers new to cloud -- millennials and industry veterans alike -- sell cloud services through a new mobile application and 'micro-learning' videos.
Incoming Tech Data CEO Rich Hume -- a 35-year channel veteran -- is the perfect choice to help the entire channel ecosysetm adopt new recurring revenue business models, solution providers said.
Carl Icahn, the activist investor who railed against Michael Dell's leveraged buyout of Dell Technolgoies in 2013, reportedly has purchased a "medium-sized" stake in VMware.
HPE Aruba executive Larry Lunetta speaks with CRN about why the company wants to empower partners to take on a new set of skills and embrace an open, machine-learning-based philosophy.
"There's a few simple commands you have to know to deploy your cloud native applications and scale them to multiple instances, and that's very very easy," said Anynines's Oliver Wolf at the 2018 Cloud Foundry Summit.
The closure of the New Devices Group, started in 2013 by former Apple and Palm executive Mike Bell, comes after Intel shut down the group's wearable division in 2016.
"In the enterprise space, Cisco has a large installed base. We go in and completely eliminate the need for a Cisco hardware router," said CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Global Channel Chief Paul Hunter says changes aimed at driving faster speed on quotes and prices from partners is paying off in more sales at bats and a "pretty significant increase in business."
'You're getting fast feedback on your code, but you also have very little vendor lock-in because you're able to move your app between different vendor offerings in Cloud Foundry,' says EngineerBetter CEO Dan Young at Cloud Foundry Summit 2018.
"Our company is growing incredibly fast, it has been for years, but what's clear is we have a total addressable market that is several billion dollars and it's global," said LogicMonitor President and CEO Kevin McGibben.
