As businesses seek more flexible, cloud-like payment models to consume data center infrastructure, CRN breaks down five vendor programs that channel partners need to know about.
After acknowledging that its Spectre patches are causing reboot issues in older and newer chips, Intel issued a statement on Monday telling partners to stop issuing the patches.
"We are moving from a hardware-centric business to a software business ... We want to make sure we have a vibrant, high-growth channel if we are going to make that transition," said Zee Hussain, channel chief of AT&T Partner Solutions.
Veeam's Peter McKay tells CRN that its acquisition of N2WS gives his company a big leg up when it comes to cloud-native integration of customers' storage infrastructures with Amazon Web Services.
New Exabeam channel chief Ken Hammond plans to create a professional services program where top partners can offer their own branded services for configuration and install with Exabeam products.
In an update to a security advisory, the networking giant says it is investigating several network application, service and acceleration products, as well as network management, routing and server products.
'We always worked to connect with our partners, but now we want more partner-to-partner connection, instead of just Intel-to-partner relationships,' Ricardo Moreno, vice president of channel sales, tells CRN.
Seventeen of the 27 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in 2017 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at which companies made gains and which didn't.
Peak 10+ViaWest, now known as Flexential, was already a strong Tier 2 cloud provider, but is even more confident it can take on the competition following its rebranding and integration, the company's CEO told CRN.
After 22 quarters of uninterrupted decline, IBM's fourth quarter finally delivered growth. Cloud and security were strong performers among the company's "strategic imperatives."
The new feature, AWS Auto Scaling, eases management for some of Amazon's largest MSP partners looking to automate resource availability across complex customer deployments taking advantage of multiple scalable services.