Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell said in an exclusive interview with CRN that new Dell global channel chief John Byrne will drive channel growth and that the company's upcoming acqusition of EMC will lead to increased research and development spending.
Responding to past criticism from Meg Whitman, Michael Dell said the combined Dell-EMC will spend nearly twice the level of rival Hewlett Packard Enterprise on research and development.
Marius Hass' white-glove pledge and the promise to grow the current EMC account business comes as EMC partners are being aggressively courted by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Dell's Marius Haas spoke with CRN about the appointment of John Byrne as the company's new global channel chief and shared his message to partners as Dell moves closer to finalizing the $62 billion acquisition of EMC.
Dell Tuesday named John Byrne as the new global channel chief of Dell-EMC, tasking the 27-year sales veteran with combining two disparate channel organizations as part of the largest IT acquisition in history.
John Byrne, Dell-EMC's new global channel chief, tells CRN the combined company is set to leverage its channel partners to take market share from rivals.
At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft unveils plans to sell Windows 10 Enterprise Edition and Surface 2-in-1 devices through a select group of top channel partners.
Brendan Burns, a senior staff engineer who helped create the Kubernetes open source container orchestration technology, is joining Microsoft to work on the Azure public cloud.
Xerox, which will split into two companies later this year, is in talks to acquire Chicago-based copier and printer firm R.R. Donnelley & Sons, according to a report citing anonymous sources.
Partners hope that making ex-Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio Avnet's interim leader reflects a commitment to cloud and the Internet of Things, but they also said the company needs to improve at reaching out and listening to partners.
Brendan Burns, a senior staff engineer who helped create the Kubernetes open source container orchestration technology, is joining Microsoft to work on the Azure public cloud.
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a partnership with General Electric to strengthen its Internet of Things portfolio so industrial customers can take advantage of the company’s enterprise cloud applications.
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a partnership with General Electric to strengthen its Internet of Things portfolio so industrial customers can take advantage of the company’s enterprise cloud applications.
At Cisco Live, CenturyLink and Cisco launched a joint a joint location-based analytics system that will help businesses and the partner community more easily build up and manage their IoT environments.
