Here are the top 25 companies on this year‘s Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers, with gross annual sales of at least $1 million, by their two-year growth rate.
‘It‘s hard to paint a picture, a single picture of where IT budgets are going,” CDW CEO Chris Leahy tells investors during the company’s earnings call.
The managed cloud company debuted on Nasdaq at $21 per share, then sank to just above $16 by the end of the day. But its Chief Solutions Officer says Rackspace is in a unique position to seize the enormous multi-cloud opportunity, and “if we put up the results, it will take care of itself.”
An uptick in sales of some of its key products and service, along with the introduction of a new digital sales platform, should provide enough lift in the second half of the year to meet earlier expectations, Unisys Chairman and CEO Peter Altabef told analysts.
‘It‘s extremely strategic to see customers like this have a partnership with Google Cloud, because that just brings out more partners, more architects, more GCP-certified engineers in order to create these incredible solutions,’ said Scott Jensen, client partner director at SADA Systems. ‘And these often -- if they’re not bespoke solutions -- are bespoke integrations at each of these types of customers, so it’s a huge boon for the partner ecosystem.’
The telecommunications company is seeing a ‘marked change’ in enterprise engagement as businesses look to speed up digital transformation efforts as a result of COVID-19. But on the other hand, the pandemic has slowed SMB sales; a segment of customers that have felt the worst impact of the resulting economic downturn, CenturyLink executives said.
‘We are leveraging the fact that we‘re now part of Google, and we can work on some really cool joint projects with the Google teams,’ says Pedro Arellano, head of product marketing at Looker. ‘We’re basically taking Looker capabilities, joining them with some of the Google Cloud capabilities, but at the same time, we’re also investing in the core product.’
‘Many [communications service providers] are choosing to extend the benefits of network virtualization into [Radio Access Networks] for increased agility as they roll out new 5G services, but the software integration can be rather complex,’ Intel executive Dan Rodriguez says of the main issue the new platform will address.
As big data volumes explode, demand grows for database, data management and business analytics technologies for deriving value from that data. Here are 10 cool big data platforms and tools that have debuted so far this year.
CRN breaks down the 11 market leaders, including Commvault, Dell Technologies, Rubrik and Veeam, who made Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions.
Gallagher has been involved with Avnet since 1997 except for a 13-month period when he was a top executive at TTI, another electronics distributor. Meanwhile, Avnet released preliminary fourth fiscal quarter 2020 financial results.
‘I‘ve been really lucky to work for some fast-growing companies that have started with an almost 100 percent channel focus in the beginning and have made VARs an awful lot of money … The approach here will be exclusively channel, as quickly as possible,’ Ezra Hookano, SignalWire’s new channel leader, tells CRN.
From massive user growth to feature updates to opportunities for solution providers, here are the top Microsoft Teams news stories we’ve been following this year.
It’s been a busy week for new device launches, with new Apple iMac, Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy devices unveiled.
