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eGroup Gets Equity, Plans Acquisitions As It Eyes Growth
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘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.
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CDW’s $2.5B Sirius Buy Adds Up To One Of Biggest Deals In Channel History
by Steven Burke
‘This is one of the largest and most important transactions in the history of channel,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors. ‘There is good reason to like it. It adds additional services capabilities to CDW and clearly transitions them from roots of a direct marketer to a true solution provider.’
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Microsoft To Expand Access To Financial Services Cloud
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘For Microsoft to be successful in deploying these, they‘re gonna need a partner like us to go out there and help set it up,’ John Weston, senior vice president of the global Microsoft practice for Boston-based Microsoft Gold Partner Publicis Sapient, tells CRN in an interview.
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HPE CEO Neri: Steer Clear Of Public Cloud, Slash Costs By Up To 50 Percent
by Kyle Alspach
One solution provider tells CRN that a customer is looking at that level of savings by moving workloads out of the public cloud and into HPE’s GreenLake platform.
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Google Cloud CEO: SLSA Adoption Would’ve Muted SolarWinds Hack
by Donna Goodison
CEO Thomas Kurian touts the No. 3 cloud computing provider’s security chops in an exclusive interview with CRN.
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Ingram Micro’s Kirk Robinson: New Ownership Means New Channel Investment
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Platinum [Equity] is in the business of making great companies greater, and they’re fully prepared to leverage their resources and experience to help Ingram Micro grow. And now that we’re U.S.-owned again, we have additional opportunities, not the least of which is in the public sector market where Platinum has proven experience,’ says Kirk Robinson, Ingram Micro’s chief country executive for the U.S.
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Ingram Micro Acquires CloudLogic In Big Cloud Services Play
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘CloudLogic not only advises on the best, most efficient, and effective way to run your customers’ applications, but they can also run reports on your customers’ technology, software licensing, and cloud spend through what we call IT Portfolio Optimization,’ says Kirk Robinson, Ingram Micro’s chief country executive for the U.S.
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian Gives Partner Program An ‘A’
by Donna Goodison
In an exclusive interview with CRN, Kurian makes his case for the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program as he nears his third anniversary of leading the No. 3 cloud computing provider.
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Google Cloud Unveils Partner Incentives, ‘Net Promoter’ Scores
by Donna Goodison
Channel chief Carolee Gearhart previews partner news from the Google Cloud Next ’21 conference, which runs virtually today through Thursday.
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Amazon Softens Return-To-Office Policy For Some Roles
by David Harris
‘...instead of specifying that people work a baseline of three days a week in the office, we’re going to leave this decision up to individual teams,’ says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in a letter to employees and referring to corporate roles.
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Arvind Krishna: IBM ‘Dead Serious’ About Partner Push; Upcoming Growth Has ‘Got To Be’ Through Channel
by Kyle Alspach
IBM’s CEO tells partners at The Channel Company’s Best of Breed Conference that the IT giant has stepped up to invest in the channel, and offers major opportunities that include hybrid cloud, Red Hat solutions and security. ‘Now, let’s go grow the business together,’ Krishna said.
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MadHive Ups Google Cloud Deal To $100M With Help From SADA
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We helped prove what Google could do. We showed how Google could provide the speed and efficiency to run a bid market for advertisements. Google was the only cloud that could provide the 100-millisecond latency in the networks and sub-second response to queries. MadHive validates all the transitions via blockchain. They need a lot of performance,’ says SADA CEO Tony Safoian.
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IBM, Red Hat Issue New COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
by David Harris
Big Blue will require employees in the U.S. to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 while Red Hat requires proof of full vaccination by Nov. 29. An IBM spokeswoman tells CRN that the vaccine mandate also applies to any visitors to any offices, including partners “if they are at IBM sites.”
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Amazon Web Services Opening AWS Innovation Studio At HQ2
by Donna Goodison
Amazon Web Services will open a new AWS Innovation Studio at its Arlington, Va., headquarters to collaborate on global solutions that leverage its cloud computing technologies to solve societal issues.
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