Congratulations to our 2024 Inclusive Channel Leaders Awards honorees! You can learn about the 100-plus individuals on the list here 🔗 https://bit.ly/4eWQyYM. In the second annual Awards, we’re recognizing channel executives who lead by example and are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across their organizations. These leaders understand that recognizing individual identities is paramount to creating a sense of belonging for all employees. Among other initiatives, they have: - Launched inclusive recruitment and training programs - Built diverse hiring practices and - Championed inclusion-focused employee resource groups This year’s #CRNInclusiveLeaders honorees are making sure everyone’s voice is heard. #InclusiveLeadership Image description: Image featuring CRN's 2024 Inclusive Channel Leaders logo, set against a low transparency background of silhouettes of men and women, each a different color of the rainbow.
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CRN provides objective reporting on daily technology and channel news, events and trends, empowering solution providers such as systems integrators, value-added resellers, managed service providers (MSPs), strategic service providers and IT consultants to maintain a competitive advantage and deliver the business outcomes their customers need. In addition to our daily reporting, our coverage can also be found in CRN magazine, in both print and online. Since 1982, CRN's talented team of editors has reported on the news solution providers need to build successful businesses. CRN is the go-to source for breaking news on the IT channel, including technology vendors’ channel programs, channel management executives and product and services portfolios; distributors and cloud distributors; MSP platform vendors and solution providers themselves. Coverage crosses over a variety of technology areas, including cloud, security, data center, networking, software, storage, managed services, computing and components and peripherals.
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Google Cloud is slamming Microsoft after it secured a multimillion-dollar deal to settle a European antitrust complaint regarding its cloud licensing practices. “Microsoft’s playbook of paying off complainants rather than addressing the substance of their complaint hurts businesses and shouldn’t fool anyone,” Google Cloud’s GM, VP and Head of Platform Amit Zavery told CRN. Here’s what else he had to say. #CloudComputing #CloudInfrastructure #CloudServices
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Advance Auto Parts disclosed that data belonging to 2.3 million customers was exposed in an April attack targeting its Snowflake deployment. Here’s what you need to know: #cybersecurity #cyberattack #DataBreach
More Than 2 Million People Impacted In Snowflake-Related Attack
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Here’s a look at Microsoft’s investment plans as part of a new fiscal year of partner incentives to win the battle for AI supremacy: - More than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales in its Microsoft Azure Innovate offering - An incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and - A tenfold increase to its Microsoft Copilot partner investment “Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,” Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer and corporate vice president of its Global Partner Solutions (GPS) organization, told partners Wednesday during the digital MCAPS Start for Partners event. Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program #MSPartner
New Microsoft Partner Program Investments Include Millions For Security, Azure, Copilot
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CRN Exclusive: Denver-based K3 Technology has acquired Dallas-based MSP OG2 Network Services, creating more opportunities for it to expand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. “In the Dallas market, we didn’t have any clients,” K3 Founder and CEO Kelly Kercher told CJ Fairfield in an exclusive interview. “We are in the Houston market, we’re up in Washington and then a few on the East Coast, but it does bring us new [clients] for Dallas.” Here’s what else Kercher, and OG2 Founder Andrew Mathews, said about the deal:
K3 Technology Acquires Dallas-Based MSP OG2 Network Services: Exclusive
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Google has reportedly abandoned its plans to acquire CRM specialist HubSpot, axing a potential deal that would have been worth billions and helped Google Cloud. Here’s what you need to know:
Google Axes Huge HubSpot Acquisition Deal, HubSpot Stock Drops
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As NVIDIA Elite partner Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD)’s newly appointed Senior Vice President of Operations Chris Jackson puts it, there is no such thing as a “mundane time in the data center industry.” The list of demands for, concerns about and outright bottlenecks faced by the data center industry has never been greater: GenAI compute. Power contraints. Land near power. Talent. Each of these demands, to some degree, shapes the flow of resources through data center providers. Here’s Jackson’s take on those challenges, his new role and working toward positioning Applied Digital as a leading provider in next-generation data centers:
Nvidia Elite Partner Applied Digital Hires Data Center Veteran To Make Operations 'Predictable, Repeatable And Scalable'
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Kyle Alspach has the details on these nine vendors Gartner recognized in its 2024 Magic Quadrant ranking for single-vendor SASE: Palo Alto Networks, Cato Networks, Netskope, Cisco Security, Fortinet, Versa Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cloudflare and Forcepoint. Plus: Learn about the companies that earned honorable mentions from Gartner. Prisma SASE by Palo Alto Networks NextWave Channel Partners Netskope Partners Cisco Cisco Partners Fortinet Partner HPE Partners #cybersecurity #networking #SDWAN
Palo Alto Networks, Cato, Netskope Top Gartner's SASE Magic Quadrant For 2024
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Growth is a big priority for Nasuni. Following Vista Equity Partners’ (joined by TCV and KKR) majority investment in the Boston-based company, Nasuni’s President David Grant said it’s exploring the potential of the federal market. It also wants to add more data services that can take advantage of a business’ data once it’s consolidated using Nasuni’s technology. Read Grant’s interview with Joseph Kovar to learn more about Nasuni, the new funding round that values the company at approximately $1.2 billion and how Nasuni is enabling AI-ready infrastructure: #DataProtection #AIreadiness
Nasuni President On New Growth Funding: 'We Did Not Need The Money At All'
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Ken McCray has been Fortinet’s U.S. channel chief since January 2023, dedicated to transforming the company’s Engage Partner Program, expanding partnerships and driving revenue growth. Read his conversation with Cass R. Cooper, MHR, to learn about his perspective on inclusion, how diversity, equity and inclusion impact his role in the channel and how he approached diversifying a 100 percent male team when he joined the company 🔗 https://bit.ly/3LjToJZ. Fortinet Partner