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In a “state of the channel” presentation yesterday, Microsoft’s Gavriella Schuster (pictured) said the remodeled One Commercial Partner program she heads up has distributed over 80,000 sales leads since July.

Part of a dramatic overhaul of the giant vendor’s channel ecosystem, the new initiative gives partners primary sales ownership of some 170,000 mostly small and midsize companies worldwide.

Sampling of SMBs finds winning new business, client data security top priorities in coming year

Companies also blame business users and cloud providers, revealed the 2018 Netwrix Cloud Security Report

Scale-out cluster architecture enables global data management of files and objects across private and public clouds

ZeroStack, Inc., creators of a self-driving on-premises cloud, announced the ZeroStack Cloud Innovation Partner Program, its inaugural program for its global partner ecosystem.

Accelerating NetApp’s leadership role in helping companies build next-generation data centers

GTT Communications, Inc., the leading global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced that legendary professional basketball player, Julius Erving, has been elected to the GTT board of directors. Erving is founder and managing member of Dr. J Enterprises, which owns and manages the merchandising, media and philanthropic aspects of the Julius “Dr. J” Erving brand.

According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC)†Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments is expected to total $46.5 billion in 2017 with year-over-year growth of 20.9%. Public cloud datacenters will account for the majority of this spending, 65.3%, growing at the fastest annual rate of 26.2%.

In an all-cash transaction deal for N2WS valued at $42.5M, Veeam ensures business continuity and reduces risk for AWS workloads with cloud-native data protection
Deal strengthens Veeam’s position as a leading data protection provider for AWS, adding depth to its portfolio of solutions that deliver Availability for any app, any data, across any cloud
To accelerate innovation and growth, N2WS will be able to access Veeam’s vast ecosystem of alliances and partners, while Veeam will have access to N2WS technology and research and development (R&D) to integrate Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) data protection for AWS workloads into the Veeam Availability Platform