About
Donna Goodison is a senior editor covering the public cloud for CRN. Donna started at CRN in 2019 after 15 years as a business reporter for the Boston Herald and previous stints as a Boston Globe freelancer and business reporter at the Boston Business Journal and Banker & Tradesman. She graduated from Northeastern University in Boston with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Donna lives in Waltham, Mass., and loves traveling, cooking and the beach.
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5 Things To Know About A Possible Atos-DXC Technology Deal
by Donna Goodison
‘Atos would directly benefit from the market consolidation of a direct competitor, while DXC Technology, which has historically prioritized its fiduciary responsibility, would seize the chance for its shareholders to capitalize on the opportunity and end its seemingly perennial turnaround efforts,’ according to Technology Business Research.
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SADA Launches SaaS Alliance Program Tied To Google Cloud
by Donna Goodison
‘What we’re bringing to market together with Google Cloud here is completely unique in the MSP partner ecosystem space, and we’re really excited to make SADA the best possible home for every SaaS company that wants to run on GCP,’ SADA Systems CEO Tony Safoian says.
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Atos Confirms Reported $10B Offer For DXC Technology
by Donna Goodison
‘Following recent market rumors about a potential transaction involving Atos, the company confirms that it has approached DXC Technology concerning a potential friendly transaction between the two groups in order to create a digital services leader benefitting from global scale, talent and innovation,’ the Bezons, France-based Atos said in a statement.
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10 Top AWS Partner Announcements From re:Invent 2020
by Donna Goodison
Amazon Web Services Partner Network members from AllCloud to Lemongrass to World Wide Technology boosted their AWS profiles with new offerings and designations tied to the cloud computing provider.
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50-Plus Biggest AWS Announcements From re:Invent 2020
by Donna Goodison
CRN breaks down more than 50 new product and service announcements from the top-ranked cloud provider’s annual partner and customer conference that continues in January.
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10 Ways To Boost Cloud Performance
by Donna Goodison
From block-and-file storage to AI-powered document processing to Kubernetes enrichment for log management, here are 10 offerings from tech’s dynamic cloud sector.
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Google Outage Shows Public Cloud Computing Is ‘Not Invincible’
by Steven Burke
‘There are going to be outages and shutdowns for public cloud,’ says Bob Venero, CEO of Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider Future Tech, No. 96 on the CRN 2020 SP500. ‘Corporations that rely solely on public cloud to function and run are putting their businesses at risk for loss of revenue, security vulnerabilities and unexpected losses in productivity. Public cloud is not invincible.’
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Why Microsoft’s Azure Arc Is A ‘Value Proposition’
by Donna Goodison
‘When you think about what we’re doing versus what our competition or what other vendors are doing, we provide the most flexible solution -- bar none,’ said Arpan Shah, the general manager leading Microsoft’s product marketing for Azure infrastructure.
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Doug Yeum’s 7 Most Memorable Remarks At AWS re:Invent 2020
by Donna Goodison
‘Enterprise customers want to unshackle themselves from the rigid, expensive and brittle monolithic IT stack -- like Oracle, for example,’ says Doug Yeum, Amazon Web Services’ channel chief.
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AWS Expands Think Big, ATO, AI/ML Rapid Adoption Programs
by Donna Goodison
The increased offerings come as the AWS Public Sector Partner Program is swelling from a 45 percent increase in membership, which now exceeds 1,600 partners.
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AWS Competencies Launch In Travel, Energy, Mainframe Migration
by Donna Goodison
The cloud provider announced at AWS re:Invent 2020 that it’s also expanding its AWS Public Safety and Disaster Competency to technology partners.
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AWS To Launch New ISV Partner Path
by Donna Goodison
The program also will support AWS consulting partners, who increasingly are going to market with their own software solutions, according to AWS channel chief Doug Yeum.
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AWS Channel Chief: Speed And Specialization Matter A Lot Right Now
by Donna Goodison
‘The pandemic is going to be an important inertia breaker or a forcing function for a lot of these partners…to go bigger and be more aggressive and truly understand that speed matters right now,’ says Doug Yeum, Amazon Web Services’ worldwide channel and alliances head.
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Third-Party Professional Services Added To AWS Marketplace
by Donna Goodison
AWS Marketplace also is adding automated software license management, Private Marketplace APIs and Service Catalog App Registry.
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