Here are the top 50 technology employers who are hiring the most during COVID-19 that channel partners should know about including Amazon, Dell, Oracle as well as solution providers Capgemini, CDW and Wipro, according to Dice’s new Tech Job Report.
All but six of the 25 publicly held solution provider and distributor companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock price tumble in the first six months of 2020—many by double-digit amounts and two losing more than 50 percent of their value. Take a look at whose shares managed to hold their value and which ones took the biggest losses.
In a market suddenly crowded with hyperscalers offering VMware environments, Oracle VMware Cloud Solution differentiates itself with an architectural approach that implements vSphere on the same instances that run all other workloads and allows customers and partners full operational control.
‘Now we’re reorienting our business toward new customer priorities, aligning with our customers’ needs to continue to do it fast and to also to do it right for the long-term transformation of their businesses,’ writes Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell in a letter to employees.
Amazon Web Services remained the market leader with an estimated $19.99 billion in IaaS revenue last year and a hold on 45 percent of the worldwide market.
‘After a strong first quarter, driven in part by urgent demand in March from customers transitioning their people to working from home, the pandemic‘s impact on our customer base and demand was significant,’ says Tim McGrath, Connection president and CEO.
Speroni oversaw Oracle’s channel operations for the last six years, including a recent overhaul of the PartnerNetwork program, as vice president for worldwide strategic alliances.
After topping its own sales records for software, cloud and subscriptions in the third quarter, Avaya CEO Jim Chirico tells CRN that there‘s still plenty of runway for partners to sell Avaya’s portfolio to transformation-minded clients.
‘We’re simplifying the TruScale as-a-service contracts for partners, simplifying the financial models by making it a lot easier to understand and to make projections,” says Lenovo’s new global channel chief, Jose Luis Fernandez, in an interview with CRN.
The 150 companies on the 2020 Fast Growth 150 list collectively generated revenue of $37.80 billion compared with $55.93 billion last year and $50.59 billion the year before.
‘By simplifying the positioning … we can target more value-based selling and more complete outcome-based solutions, which is what customers want. They don’t want tactical features, they want solutions to real problems,’ Simon Harrison, Avaya’s chief marketing officer, tells CRN.
‘You need some vendors to be stand-alone public companies to show the strength and viability of this market, which should bring more investment,’ SolarWinds CEO Thompson tells CRN.
Two vendors leverage the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services to make it possible to bring data from SAP applications into Google’s BigQuery analytics.
Amazon Web Services brought its compute and storage capabilities to the mobile edge this week for developers in Boston and the San Francisco Bay area.
