Partner Talk: Quotes Of The Week

What were solution providers talking about with CRN last week? Here's a handful of quotes we picked up that focused on news stories that addressed – among others - a decision by Dell EMC to sell a unit of the company, Spanning Cloud Apps, as well as President Donald Trump's executive order authorizing changes to the H-1B visa program.

Jamie Shepard (pictured), senior vice president for healthcare and strategy at Lumenate, of Dallas, a long-time Dell EMC channel partner, on Dell EMC's decision to sell Spanning Cloud Apps to a private equity company, Insight Venture Partners, for an undisclosed sum.

"EMC's timing when it bought Spanning was about one year too late. … EMC never did much with Spanning. The majority of SaaS customers were doing Office 365, but for them, it wasn't always important to have a third-party data protection application. Microsoft's data protection is usually good enough."