Tag: Security operations

‘The overall message is we’re embracing partners and we’re focused on them making money,’ CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz tells CRN. According to solution provider executive Ryan Morris, behind the stunning growth of cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike is something that’s been in shockingly short supply lately around the tech industry: long-term vision. From “day one,” CrowdStrike has…

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While maintaining separate partner programs for the moment, Cisco is taking steps to build links between the Cisco and Splunk partner bases and help them leverage the combined Cisco-Splunk technology portfolio. Cisco Systems and its recently acquired Splunk business unit are taking the first steps to build links between their partners and the channel programs…

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Virtusa, Redapt, Network Doctor, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Virtusa, Redapt and Network Doctor are among the solution providers to list open positions while Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles.…

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For the week ending June 14, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AWS, Mistral AI, Fortinet, Pax8 and Confluent. The Week Ending June 14 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Amazon Web Services for its plan to invest $230 million in AI startups, including…

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While Splunk-Cisco product integration was big news at this week’s .conf24 event, Splunk also debuted new products around AI, next-generation Security Operations Centers and data management. Splunk has unveiled a series of AI tools and assistants across its product portfolio that the company said are designed to help organizations speed up routine tasks, glean new…

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At Splunk .conf24, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Go-to-Market President Gary Steele spoke to Splunk customers about the benefits of integrating the companies’ security and observability products and highlighted the opportunities those combinations will create for partners. Cisco Systems and Splunk executives are putting on a full-court press at Splunk .conf24 this week to tout…

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With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to potential customers. Expanding on its recent initiatives to work with the channel, Confluent today launched the Build with Confluent program through which the company is providing technical…

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The standalone version of Securonix’s trailblazing UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics) tool will be a major boost to partner sales opportunities, according to Channel Chief Mark Stevens. Next-generation SIEM unicorn Securonix unveiled a refreshed partner program Tuesday while also debuting a standalone version of its pioneering tool for thwarting insider threats. The revamped channel…

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Gary Steele, who serves as Splunk general manager in addition to his Cisco post, says in an interview with CRN that a major focus for him is not allowing the nitty-gritty of the ongoing Cisco-Splunk integration to disrupt Splunk’s track record of innovation. In mid-March Cisco Systems completed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in…

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The cybersecurity giant’s latest quarter shows that CrowdStrike is as formidable as ever in its battle with Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft and Cisco-Splunk. Like just about every other cybersecurity vendor right now, CrowdStrike has been talking a lot about product consolidation and why the company believes it has the right platform for the job. But…

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