HPE Looks to Channel to Advance GreenLake Adoption
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is looking to work more closely with partners in the year ahead to create additional opportunities for its managed HPE GreenLake service. The company is extending the HPE GreenLake partner enablement tools it provides to include an “HPE GreenLake Introduction and Business Planning Workshop” through which it ...
Pax8 Advances SaaS App Management
Pax8 this week launched a Pax8 Pro platform that makes it simpler for channel partners to manage the lifecycle of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications on behalf of their customers. The platform extends the scope of the automation capabilities the distributor of cloud applications has been offering partners to span the entire ...
Rancher Labs Launches OEM Partner Program
Rancher Labs this week launched a partner program for OEMs and other providers of embedded systems that need to deploy and manage a distribution of Kubernetes. The first member of the Rancher Labs OEM and Embedded Alliances Program is NetApp, which is planning to make the distribution of Kubernetes from ...
Ingram Micro Allies with nOps on AWS Expertise
Ingram Micro Cloud this week announced it has allied with nOps to help partners build a practice around a framework for conducting reviews of cloud computing deployments using a set of best practices defined by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The goal is to make it simpler for partners to uncover ...
ConnectWise Expands Security Portfolio
ConnectWise this week during its online IT Nation Connect conference announced it has acquired Perch Security, a provider of a security information event management (SIEM) platform, and StratoZen, a provider of a security operations center (SOC) that also has its own SIEM platform. Perch Security has been a technology partner ...
Hitachi Launches Lumada Alliance Program
Hitachi, Ltd. this week at its annual Social Innovation Forum announced a global Lumada Alliance Program that seeks to create a unified program through which information technology and operational technology (OT) with be sold to the conglomerate’s customers. Initial participants in the program include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco, Google ...
Arctic Wolf Recruits Former Channel Company CEO
Arctic Wolf, a provider of managed security services, this week named Bob Skelley to be its senior vice president of global channels as part of an effort to extend its reach beyond the U.S. Previously CEO of The Channel Company, the parent entity of CRN, until last June, Skelley joins a ...
Ingram Micro Adds Emerging Business Group
Ingram Micro Inc. announced this week during an online Ingram ONE event that it has created an Emerging Business Group (EBG) as part of an effort to help partners better identify products and technologies that are on the cusp of mainstream adoption. In addition, the distributor revealed it will make ...
Cisco Vows to Consolidate Channel Programs
Cisco this week during an online Cisco Partner Summit revealed it will shrink the dozen channel programs it manages today down to one program over the next 12 to 18 months. The one partner program will still have three tiers, but the focus of the program will be on integrators, ...
