’We have great momentum in 5G adoption … and our long-term growth is in fixed wireless access and mobile edge compute,’ Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg says of the carrier’s Q3 2021 results.
From gross profit margins to hardware versus services sales, here are eight key data points and figures from CDW and Sirius Computer Solutions’ upcoming merger.
From digital transformation and Wi-Fi access points to hybrid cloud and Windows 365 to managed detection and response and business continuity, here’s where nine solution providers attending last week’s Best of Breed Conference 2021 plan to place their biggest strategic bets for growth in 2022.
‘The message of moving from centralized to distributed solutions, from cloud first to cloud everywhere, from more data to more insights, understand that it starts again with a lower pillar that is based on security,’ says Joe Vidal, master technologist, office of North America CTO for HPE.
“Quantiq is winning and punching well above its weight, more than any other Microsoft Dynamics partner in the world,” said Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors which acted as an advisor to Quantiq on the transaction. “Avanade now has a significant Dynamics outsourcing capability.”
‘Kyndryl is a true IT services company with a customer-centered culture,’ Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter said Tuesday during a virtual event. ‘Customers are our North Star. We help our customers design, manage and modernize the technology systems that the world depends on every day.’
Salaries for new Dell Technologies hires over the past 12 months through H-1B visas range from $62,000 to well over $200,000, according to report from Insider. ‘Dell is tapping into talent acquisition of resources in other countries,’ one top executive from a large national U.S.-based solution provider tells CRN.
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Intel Global Channel Chief John Kalvin says the chipmaker is increasing investments to ensure a broader range of software is ready for new processors as soon as they launch to help channel partners deliver Intel-based solutions faster and with greater confidence.
‘That need for automation, that need to drive efficient business processes across a dispersed workforce, the need to give customers a set of products and services is something they didn‘t even know they needed prior to the pandemic. We’re seeing some of the large ISVs go out and start to dip their toes into automation and that’s a massive validation of this space,’ says Ben Yerushalmi, senior vice president of global alliances and channels at Automation Anywhere.
‘NetApp has been articulating and refining its cloud strategy for several years. There are a number of companies out there looking to copy its strategy. But NetApp is very well-positioned for the future,’ says John Woodall, vice president of engineering and NetApp enablement at channel partner General Datatech.
‘This is a competitive marketplace. In order to win, we need to keep delivering better and better functionality and automation for our customers,’ Invicti President and COO Mark Ralls tells CRN.
‘Our plan was to go out and get investment for growth. We needed investment to hire software engineers and build our platform. We knew we needed to invest in sales and R&D. Fortunately our existing investors were excited about what we’re doing so there was no need to spend a couple of months pitching new investors,’ says Ryan Denehy, Electric CEO and founder.
‘We have a revenue growth problem, and we have a profitability problem,’ Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter told attendees during a virtual event Tuesday. ‘We think we can work on both of those simultaneously.’
Apple is promising ‘dramatically more performance’ and ‘significantly less’ power draw than comparable Intel CPUs with its new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips that go inside the new MacBook Pro laptops. CRN reviews the most important things you should know.
‘For a company of our size—about $30 million in revenue—to grow like we want to, I felt it’s time to de-risk and to bring in the right people. We are pursuing organic growth to muscle up on what we have, and acquisitions to find additional capabilities we don’t have while expanding our footprint to areas where we don’t have the manpower,’ says Mike Carter, eGroup founder and principal.
‘It’s fun to take on the big competitors and bring them down,’ says former Cisco CEO and Pensando Chairman John Chambers on the two companies’ new distributed services switch that brings software-defined services and security right to where the data is being processed.
Zix has a valuation of $476 million and competes against significantly larger email security vendors such as Mimecast and Proofpoint, the latter of which was sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo in August for $12.3 billion.
From gross profit margins to hardware versus services sales, here are eight key data points and figures from CDW and Sirius Computer Solutions’ upcoming merger.
