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Steven Burke has been reporting on the technology industry and sales channel for 30 years. Burke joined CRN in 1993 and has teamed with fellow editors numerous times to win American Society of Business Publication Editors and Jesse H. Neal journalism awards. He is passionate about the role of partners using technology to solve business problems and has spoken at conferences on channel sales issues.

Latest Stories

All Eyes On Potential Fallout From Apollo Global’s $5.4B Tech Data Acquisition

by Steven Burke

‘You hear the argument that because they are going to have so much debt they will have to raise prices,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors of Walnut Creek, Calif., one of the top channel investment advisory deal-makers. ‘I don’t believe that. I think they’ll eliminate things that partners don’t want to pay for and they’ll put that into price. I think is absolutely going to improve Tech Data’s pricing. This is a good deal for partners.’
UBS Sees HPE Server Growth, Upgrades Stock

by Steven Burke

‘HPE has stabilized its server market share in the last year or so after losing seven points in the prior two years,’ writes UBS Equity Research Analyst Munjal Shah. ‘Gartner forecasts server market to grow four percent in 2020 after declining 11 percent in 2019.’
Partners Mourn Passing Of ‘Channel Catalyst’ Mark Hurd

by Steven Burke

‘He was a smart guy who got the channel,’ says Sam Haffar, executive chairman and CEO of Computex Technology Solutions. ‘He looked at the different routes to the market, saw the value the channel brought to the table, and he embraced it.’
Tax Matters: HPE Set To Reap $300M Windfall From HP Inc.

by Steven Burke

‘For the channel the separation of Hewlett Packard into HP Inc. and HPE clarified what was a convoluted model with both PCs, printers and a wide array of enterprise infrastructure,’ says Future Tech CEO Bob Venero.
Women’s World Cup Champions Ali Krieger, Ashlyn Harris Salute D&H

by Steven Burke

“D&H has the culture, leadership and team of employees to take on anything, embrace change, persevere and create amazing experiences just like this one today,” said 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup USA Champions Ali Krieger.
Vendors: New D&H Headquarters Is Destined To Drive Partner Growth

by Steven Burke

“The thing that has always separated D&H from other distributors is their people,” said Intel Director of US Distribution Sales David Allen. “Now what you see as their people move into this new location is that they are just ecstatic. They are over the moon in terms of their new work location. They look at it and know they are big league right now. They are ready to take on the world.”
D&H’s New Headquarters Brings Silicon Valley Style To Harrisburg, Pa.

by Steven Burke

“This is transformational,” said D&H Co-President Michael Schwab. “The best analogy came from one of our employee co-owners who said to me, ‘I feel like I have the same responsibility, the same job, the same daily routine but I am working for a brand-new innovative company.”
Hyper-Converged Game Changer: HPE Adds InfoSight To SimpliVity

by Steven Burke

‘We’re reshaping the HCI market with InfoSight on SimpliVity,’ says HPE Storage Director of Marketing David Wang. ‘This is a new generation of HCI that goes beyond software defined. It is all AI driven.’
IT Services Game-Changer: Corsica Buys MSP Superstar Symplexity

by Steven Burke

“This adds another All Star IT services provider to our platform with security services and a proven digital transformation team with software development capabilities and advanced business applications support for our clients,” said Corsica Technologies CEO Dale Walls.
Antonio Neri: HPE Set To Deliver Breakthrough Kubernetes Platform

by Steven Burke

The new container platform “will be the first of its kind built on Kubernetes and unique IP (intellectual property) from BlueData and MapR,” said Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri in an address at the company’s annual securities analyst meeting.
Antonio Neri: HPE Set To Unleash ‘Next-Generation’ GreenLake

by Steven Burke

“With our next generation HPE GreenLake we will be able to deliver one unified as a service experience across public, private and edge workloads that simplifies the experience through a set of integrated tools that provides visibility across cost, compliance and governance,” said HPE CEO Antonio Neri in an address at HPE’s annual securities analyst meeting in New York.
HPE Wins Blockbuster GreenLake VMware Cloud Foundation Deal

by Steven Burke

‘The cherry on top of the sundae (for Porsche) was GreenLake, which really enabled them to move to a new economic model and shift their resources to do application development,’ says HPE Vice President of Marketing Paul Miller. ‘It is all about getting them the right mix of technologies that allows them to move quicker with the applications they are developing.’
VMware Cloud Foundation Sales Superstar Jumps Ship To HPE

by Steven Burke

HPE partners said the addition of Peter Brennan, who was VMware’s vice president of worldwide sales- hyperconverged and Cloud Foundation for the last two and and a half years, is a major “coup” as HPE steps up its Cloud Foundation sales charge against Dell Technologies.
HPE Stock Jumps 6 Percent On Bank Of America Double Upgrade

by Steven Burke

‘We made that decision because there was no money to be made (in the tier one hyperscale server market),’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri of HPE’s decision to exit the tier one hyperscale server market. ‘It was very distracting. It was taking a lot of energy and time from our R&D team. Ultimately it was not a long term value creation for our shareholders.’
HPE Leads Funding Of John Chambers-Backed Edge Services Startup

by Steven Burke

Pensando Systems said it will use the new funding to accelerate engineering, operations and go to market activities.