About
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
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Pat Gelsinger: ‘Coming Home To Intel’ Will Be ‘The Greatest Honor Of My Career’
“To come back ‘home’ to Intel in the role of CEO during what is such a critical time for innovation, as we see the digitization of everything accelerating, will be the greatest honor of my career,” says Pat Gelsinger, who started his career as a budding engineer at Intel 42 years ago and is set to take the helm as CEO effective Feb. 15.
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Sheldon Adelson, Father of Comdex IT Mega-Show, Passes Away
“When Sheldon recruited me he told me was going to be shaking the hands of presidents and prime ministers around the world. He said, ‘Come with me, it’s going to be a helluva ride,’” said Jason Chudnofsky, who worked side by side with Adelson for 16 years. “Shockingly, he was right.”
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The Channel Company Acquires Audienz, Adds Global End-User Cloud Marketing Services Muscle To Portfolio
“Audienz brings a powerful end-user, line-of-business focus that has paid off in breakthrough results and proven return on investment for some of the most successful cloud providers in the world,” said The Channel Company CEO Blaine Raddon. “We’re excited to add that capability to our well-established marketing services for both technology vendors and solution providers. This is a significant investment for The Channel Company in our cloud services offerings for our vendors and solution providers focused on marketing services to end users, to partners, and through partners.”
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The 10 Most Controversial Companies Of 2020
The global pandemic forever changed the technology landscape in 2020, but it was one security breach after another that grabbed the biggest headlines of the year. Here’s our list of the top 10 most controversial companies of the year.
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HPE Channel Stalwart Terry Richardson Is Retiring
“Terry was an amazing advocate for partners and customers,” said Paul O’Dell, a director at CPP Associates, a Clinton, N.J. HPE Platinum partner and winner of HPE’s U.S. North America Solution Provider of the Year award in 2019. “Terry has been a very good friend and advocate since I met him 10 years ago. I wish him nothing but the best wherever his journey takes him next.”
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HPE: ‘No Evidence’ It Has Been ‘Impacted’ By SolarWinds-Based Attack
‘At this point we have no evidence to suggest that HPE has been impacted by this campaign or that any HPE or customer data has been exposed,’ says an HPE spokesperson in an email to CRN. ‘We are treating the issue seriously and taking proactive steps recommended by SolarWinds to mitigate any known risk to HPE or our customers.’
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SolarWinds Should Have Been More ‘Vigilant’: Palo Alto Networks CEO
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Steven Burke
‘I am not going to give them a free pass,’ says Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. ‘They should have been more vigilant and diligent, but I think this is a very sophisticated, very complex attack. The fact they (the Russians) got in there not only did they do sophisticated things, they also got lucky that this is a piece of software which then went unnoticed for six to nine months, and now it’s embedded in the infrastructure of thousands of customers.’
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Google Outage Shows Public Cloud Computing Is ‘Not Invincible’
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Steven Burke
‘There are going to be outages and shutdowns for public cloud,’ says Bob Venero, CEO of Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider Future Tech, No. 96 on the CRN 2020 SP500. ‘Corporations that rely solely on public cloud to function and run are putting their businesses at risk for loss of revenue, security vulnerabilities and unexpected losses in productivity. Public cloud is not invincible.’
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Ingram Micro-Platinum Equity Deal Is Sign Of Distribution ‘Renaissance’
‘With Ingram now owned by Platinum and Tech Data owned by Apollo there is going to be a renaissance in distribution,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors. ‘It is good for the channel to have heavyweights (like Platinum and Apollo) between them and the vendors. It is very good news for partners.’
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Partners: HPE GreenLake HPC Is A Supercomputing-For-The-Masses Game Changer
‘Before this, only the most privileged companies had access to a supercomputer,’ says Nth Generation Chief Technology Officer Dan Molina. ‘This is going to level the playing field, allowing a vast number of new organizations access to supercomputing power. The seven figure investment to get access to supercomputing power is being drastically cut to a fraction of that with this service.’
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