Topic: Industry Events - Page 39

Execs outline software-defined networking and hybrid cloud strategies; announcements on opening day include new virtualization, cloud management, and integrated OpenStack solutions.

At the future-themed partnering and training event, CompTIA rolled out a variety of educational and training resources and a new advisory council designed to take the pulse of the changing IT workforce.

Hundreds of attendees and more than 145 exhibitors are converging at CompTIA’s premier partnering and training event, themed “Connect to a Smarter Future.”

Newly appointed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C., driving home his recently announced focus for Microsoft as a company.

With a bold new CEO at the helm who just penned a note to employees outlining a refined mobile first, cloud first vision, more than 16,000 descended upon Washington D.C. this morning for Day 1 of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC).

We’ve been expecting a new 10-inch ThinkPad tablet since the ThinkPad Tablet 8 hit the scene a few months back, and sure enough the Tablet 2’s successor has finally arrived.

If you thought that fancy new 10-inch ThinkPad Tablet was the only thing Lenovo had to show at its Accelerate partner conference, then you don’t know Lenovo very well. No Lenovo event is complete without a killer new ThinkStation to show, and the new P300 brings a lot of unique flexibility and power to channel resellers at desktop-class pricing.

Datto receives award at the annual HTG Q2 Summit in Dallas, Texas.

At ISS 2014, Intel and McAfee announced a new revenue share program for channel partners in an effort to keep Intel and McAfee solutions profitable to channel partners. Further, in a video Intel just played, the company will also begin offering free trials of McAfee security solutions with boxed Intel products. How successful that will be is of question, given the reluctance to “try” security solutions, thanks to years of being shoveled trials. Still, it’s great Intel is offering channel incentives for McAfee solutions.

ViewSonic will present its latest innovations in monitors, projectors, and VDI products at the Forum.