Former AppDynamics and Splunk sales guru Jon Jung was recently named senior vice president of sales and operations by Gemini Data and is charged with building out the data management software firm's direct and channel sales strategies.
The deal provides even more services muscle for Accenture which has 54,000 Oracle consultants and has acquired more than 70 companies over the last three years.
'We think Cisco will have a pretty viable platform for UCaaS within the next six to 12 months that will drive a lot more of the adoption into the cloud,' says Aqueduct Technologies CEO Manak Ahluwalia.
Wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile are combining in a $26 billion deal that the two companies claim will be a "force for positive change" as the US wireless market moves into the 5G era.
"Everybody sells VMware. You could say it's over represented, over distributed, which brings down prices and brings down margins for partners," said Scale Computing's Chief Revenue Officer Dave Hallmen.
Scott Strubel, who left NetApp about a year ago, is taking on a global channel role at Commvault, where he will focus on simplifying products and processes for solution providers.
News that Apple may be mulling a switch to Intel modems for the iPhone and is seeing slowing demand for the iPhone X were among the major revelations this week.
Joyce Mullen tells CRN that the company is building on the partner program launched last year and has 'internalized the feedback that our partners have been giving us in areas that we can improve on.'
Jumio is transforming digital identity verification with its AI-powered technology. It recently partnered with Insights Network, an EOS blockchain-based data exchange.
