The appointment of Forbush follows Zayo's acquisition of Electric Lightwave last month and the appointment will focus on unifying the two companies' channel programs and bolstering Zayo's West Coast presence.
Tracy Pavillard, who oversees Dell EMC's federal channels, said he needs to be selective because the space requires partners that are focused and consistent.
VMware's sale of vCloud Air gets the vendor out of the business of owning and operating clouds and fuels French hosting giant OVH's international ambitions.
The Elastifile Cloud File System was designed from the ground-up to manage and migrate any storage workload across on-premises data center and in public or private clouds.
Cloud security platform company Armor has raised $89 million in financing, the company announced Wednesday, and will now set its sights on further expanding its channel strategy.
Global HR Research, which provides tools for hiring, recruitment and drug screening, sees growth ahead after acquisition by Renovo Capital in a deal that could run as high as $30 million.
HPE Chief Marketing Officer Henry Gomez said the multimillion dollar campaign, which features TV, digital, print and social media, focuses on how HPE with its hybrid IT muscle can help IT decision makers be successful with a digital transformation.
DXC Technology's Mike Nefkens and Dan Hushon said the new company is looking to introduce key vendors like ServiceNow and Oracle and sell more Amazon Web Services into the legacy HPE Enterprise Services customer base.
Teo rolls out an on-boarding program and adds other incentives with the goal of helping former Toshiba resellers hit the ground running, Thomas Beck, director of marketing and business development, tells CRN.
McAfee will be getting a new name and new ownership, but partners shouldn’t expect to see any major overhauls in how they work with the security vendor, according to Senior Vice President of Global Channel Operations Richard Steranka.
VMware built up a network of more than 4,400 vCloud Air service providers, but sales of the vCloud service, which started under the name vCloud Hybrid Service, were hit hard by the rise of Amazon Web Services.
Large legacy vendors are seeking to fill hundreds of channel-focused positions, and that is perhaps a sign of the level and speed of IT industry change currently roiling the market.
Koby Phillips, a former Level 3 channel executive, has joined master agent Telarus. He shares with CRN his plans to bring on more VARs and MSPs and help partners get up to speed with SD-WAN and UCaaS.
Cohesity specializes in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions for secondary storage, which makes its platform a tempting partnership for HPE and Cisco. Both IT giants have a stake in Cohesity and participated in the the new funding round.
The Microsoft-aligned ISV's updated MSPComplete platform goes further in automating delivery of vendor-agnostic managed services, driving revenue, protecting IP, and increasing profits for partners.
