New Orchard CEO To MSPs: Grab—And Keep—That Seat At The Leadership Table

Business consultants are tasked with three things: diagnosing the challenge as quickly as possible, figuring out the next best step and executing on that strategy.…

VMware’s Tracy-Ann Palmer On How She Is Putting Partners In The Driver’s Seat

VMware has tuned the car and given the channel the best engine and pit crew, but it is up to the partner to win the…

IBM Teases Watsonx Generative AI Tool That Translates COBOL To Java

IBM plans to preview its upcoming Watsonx Code Assistant for Z generative artificial intelligence-assisted offering in September, which, once it’s generally available, will give solution…

ConnectWise Exec Teaches MSPs How To Conquer M&A Chaos

Mergers or acquisitions can be a chaotic experience for MSPs, but proper planning can ease the impact on employees, customers and management. That’s the word…

Former Citrix SVP Tom Holland Is Ready To Rock As New Chief Revenue Officer For ControlUp

Tom Holland, the former senior vice president of Americas sales for Citrix, said he is looking forward to getting back into the sales trenches working…

How ChromeOS Devices Are Helping This Fortune 500 Firm Save $3M A Year

Manesh Patel said when his company’s security team fully converted from Windows computers to devices running Google’s ChromeOS operating system 10 years ago, it was…

Cisco Secure Networks Revenue Grows 22 Percent In ‘Milestone’ FY 23 As Record Backlog Clears

Cisco Systems has entered a brand-new fiscal year with its sights set on AI, cloud and security as its expected revenue drivers, but the company…

VMware-Broadcom, GenAI, and Future Of Edge: Five Questions With Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready

Intel’s announcement last month that it would no longer produce the Next Unit of Computing (NUC), the backbone of edge server environments and one of…

8 Big Salesforce Hires In 2023 So Far From Oracle, AWS, Google, Microsoft

A chief revenue officer with Oracle chops. A general manager from Microsoft. And a chief marketing officer who called Oracle and Amazon Web Services home.…

Cisco To Buy Cloud-Native Mobile Core Developer Working Group Two For $150M

Cisco Systems on Thursday announced its intent to acquire cloud native mobile core developer Working Group Two (WG2) for $150 million. Cisco, no stranger to…