Tag: Cloud Platforms
‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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Equinix picks Google Cloud’s Adaire Fox-Martin as its new president and CEO with salary and stock incentives valued at $36.5 million. Equinix chose Adaire Fox-Martin as its next president and CEO with plans to pluck the leader from her role as Google Cloud go-to-market president and plant her in the data center giant’s Redwood City,…
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Proofpoint, Slack, Tanium, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks, Nvidia and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires during November 2023. New CEOs of Proofpoint and Slack. A new channel chief at Tanium. And a new chief marketing officer for Cisco subsidiary AppDynamics. Sumit Dhawan, formerly of VMware; Denise Holland Dresser, formerly with Slack…
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‘When we look at things like what’s going on with VMware, if you’ve got your partnership with VMware, great, we’re not here to completely replace that,’ says Christie Kanen, Canadian channel manager for Scale Computing. ‘We are understanding what’s going on in the market and the trends and understanding that customers want options.’ From partner…
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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…
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The expanded Accelerate with Confluent initiative offers resources and expertise to help systems integrators develop repeatable services and solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and help customers realize value more quickly. Data streaming technology developer Confluent has launched a revamped partner program to help systems integrators better develop and deliver solutions based on the…
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From Broadcom-VMware to Google Gemini, CRN breaks down the 12 biggest product launches and news from Google Cloud Next that partners and customers need to know about. Google Cloud ramped up its artificial intelligence and generative AI charge at Google Cloud Next 2024 last week with some huge product launches and news—including a new partnership…
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From 66degrees and Quantiphi to World Wide Technology and Deloitte, here are 11 top Google partners that won Google Cloud’s 2024 Partner of the Year Award in areas like sales, services and expansion. Although there are thousands of Google Cloud channel partners in North America, only a select few won the cloud company’s prestigious Partner…
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Gartner recognizes 10 security service edge (SSE) vendors in its latest Magic Quadrant ranking for the cybersecurity category. Netskope, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler once again appeared in the sought-after “Leaders” quadrant in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for security service edge (SSE) vendors, according to the report released Thursday. The three vendors in the…
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“The customers that are coming from all of those competitors are saying the same thing, which is, ‘I want a beautifully well-engineered, elegantly written, modern architecture platform for my business,’” says Michael George, Syncro CEO. While Michael George knows competition is healthy, he believes Syncro’s toolset is perfectly aligned to help MSPs grow. “I’d like…
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