The Vendor Landscape

In addition to Palo Alto Networks' McLaughlin, The Channel Company CEO Robert Faletra will interview two other high-level vendor executives: Marius Haas, president and chief commercial officer of Dell EMC, and George Kurian (pictured), CEO of NetApp.

Fresh off the completion of Dell's mega-merger with EMC, Haas will discuss the integration efforts and where partners will see growth opportunities in infrastructure, security and the other market sectors Dell serves. Kurian, meanwhile, will share his vision for NetApp, which supplies software, systems and services to manage and store customer data for enterprise and midmarket organizations. Faletra will also discuss with Kurian his views on the channel and the company's recent acquisitions, including that of SolidFire, which NetApp bought for $870 million.