The salvo of new offerings will bolster Microsoft's challenge to AWS for lucrative contracts hosting sensitive government workloads and powering infrastructure deployed in global hot spots.
Solution providers can benefit from organizing their offerings and resources into toolkits, technology teams and solutions menus that align closely with the demands of customers and prospects while remaining flexible.
The Hewlett Packard Enterprise second quarter incentives include up to $11,000 on a new logo, 33 percent off 3Par Renewals, and up to $575 for Gen10 ProLiant DL385 Smart Buys , said HPE North America Disty leader Gary Gammon.
Solution providers can use a few strategies to make sure they don't sacrifice revenue while transitioning to game-changing offerings like SD-WAN, next-generation security or containers.
Jeff Jennings, who led development of the NSX network virtualization technology, a product vital to VMware's future, goes to work for his former boss, Google Cloud chief Diane Greene
VoIP provider Ooma is buying Canadian UCaaS provider Voxter Communications in a move that will help Ooma and its channel partners reach larger business clients.
At XChange Solution Provider 2018, NetApp executive Jeremy Hall talks about how customers are willing to give up features and better performance of converged infrastructure in favor of simpler hyper-converged solutions.
The big data software developer is seeking partners to work with its software for managing the flow of data into machine-learning and business analytics systems.
Businesses should obsessively focus on just three questions, says training expert Jim Knight: Are customers coming back? Are they spending more money? And are they going to talk about you?
Intermedia' Unite UCaaS platform is vital to its growth strategy, which includes a goal to double in size within the next three years -- something executives say it can't achieve without partners.
"We can discover all your business applications across a data center or hybrid cloud type environment [within] minutes," said iQuate vice president Fred Johannessen at XChange Solution Provider 2018.
'Our competition is the channel community's fear of getting into this [Unified Communications-as-a-Service] market,' says Intermedia Chief Revenue Officer Eric Martorano speaking about the company's Unite UCaaS sales offensive.
Clayton Hart, the solution provider's CEO, highlights key interview, management and trust-building tactics while speaking at XChange Solution Provider 2018.
IgniteRM's Ginger Clay tells an XChange Solution Provider audience that they need to clearly define and separate marketing and sales roles and better manage the leads process.
Part five of CRN's 2017 Security 100 list looks at identity and access management and data protection vendors such as Okta, Ping Identity and SailPoint that keep important data safe in the event of an attack.
Part four of CRN's 2018 Security 100 list looks at companies like Mimecast, Proofpoint and Qualys that are changing the game around web, email and application security.
Part three of CRN's 2017 Security 100 list looks at SIEM, security analytics and threat detection vendors such as IBM, RSA and Splunk that help companies prioritize alerts and automate security tasks.
Part two of CRN's 2018 Security 100 list celebrates the endpoint security vendors that help protect customers from zero-day malware, trojans and advanced persistent threats.