Last Week's News By The Numbers: June 5-9

More Channel Opportunities?

It was a good week for partners of Amazon Web Services, as well as for potential channel partners of security startup Obsidian Security, cloud access security broker vendor Netskope, and cloud migration vendor Racemi. Here's a look at five big stories from CRN.com last week that have potential impact on solution providers.

$1 billion

Cost-savings goal for Nokia, which last week announced the layoffs of 170 people in Finland, part of a major cost-savings plan stemming from its $16.6 billion blockbuster acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2015. "Nokia is going up against some pretty heavy players like Huawei and Ericsson overseas," said Todd Carothers, executive vice president of sales and marketing at CounterPath, a Vancouver-based Alcatel-Lucent partner. "It's a tough market right now."