Products such as HP Jet Fusion 3-D printers and the Sprout Pro "immersive" PC will require deeper technical knowledge and specialized skills for many partners, executives told CRN.
To adhere to GDPR, InteliSecure's CTO said clients have needed to set up consent requests, comply with the right to be forgotten, and explain how they're planning to use or process an individual's data.
"I think more than 90 percent of the world's eventual investment in cloud is yet to come," according to one AWS channel partner in response to CEO Andy Jassy on the possibility of AWS outpacing Amazon's retail business.
A large low-margin deal lasting much of fiscal 2018 dragged on revenue, but it, and other new deals, opened the door to more higher-margin opportunities for solution provider ePlus.
"We expect a lot from the channel in the coming months and years," said Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey, during the company's successful third quarter earnings report Thursday.
CRN asks 13 identity management and data protection executives what tools or capabilities they've introduced over the past year to help businesses conform to the GDPR regulations.
FMT CEO tells CRN the company's mid-market customers increasingly "don't know what they need," and can be better served by a partner with a wider portfolio of business solutions
The Artificial Intelligence Ready Infrastructure, or AIRI, which was jointly developed by Nvidia and Pure Storage for Pure's channel partners, now comes in a smaller version the company hopes will open it up to a wider range of customers.
With 100 days as Lexmark's new global channel chief behind him, Sammy Kinlaw is preparing to ramp up channel spending, roll out new incentives and getting partners ready for a massive overhaul of the company's printer portfolio.
Global channel chief Sammy Kinlaw is architecting a reinvigorated partner strategy that will see the printer vendor investing more in the channel over the next several months.
Kurian told CRN that booming all-flash storage array sales, combined with a software-driving focus on innovation aimed at where customers are moving their IT infrastructures, were a winning combination for NetApp's fiscal 2018.
By working with tens of thousands of IT resellers who are transitioning to becoming managed service providers, Barracuda MSP has a feel for all of the technology that's impacting that transition.
Hutchison is a 20-year tech industry veteran who has held CMO roles at IT heavyweights Riverbed, Polycom, VMware and Citrix. She joined Veeam last September.
Comcast went public with its plan to outbid Disney for entertainment giant 21st Century Fox as the trend towards consolidation picks up steam for cable and internet providers hungry for content assets.
The all-flash storage array vendor is introducing new standard deeper discounts to give partners and customers less reason to hold up a deal to apply for special pricing.