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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

HPE CEO Antonio Neri 'Bullish' On 2019 Outlook With Intelligent Edge, Hybrid IT Momentum

by Steven Burke
‘Why I am confident about 2019 is data continues to explode around us,’ says Neri. ‘That data has to be stored and managed. It is just physics. That is a big opportunity for both us and our partners: how we really accelerate outcomes from that data with the best edge to cloud architectures with connectivity, security, AI and the right cloud computing associated with those workloads.’
Boom Times: Why 2018 Is Shaping Up To Be A Very Good Year

by Steven Burke
With tax cuts spurring IT spending and fueling sales, solution providers say 2018 is shaping up to be a very good year.
The Channel Company CEO Skelley: Partners Need To Evolve To Become Hybrid Solution Providers

by Steven Burke
"Customers are driving partners to a deeper level of engagement and insight into their business," said Skelley. "This is about evolving and adapting so partners remain relevant to their customers to continue to realize great growth opportunities."
AWS Outposts With VMware: Admission That Public Cloud Is Not 'Be-All, End-All'

by Steven Burke
‘AWS has been saying for years that public cloud is the only way to go. This is AWS throwing up the white flag on public cloud only and recognizing there is tremendous value in on-premises solutions and offerings. AWS going into the on-premises business is a testimony to the power of channel partners delivering on premises solutions.’
Partners: HPE Acquisition Will 'Kill' BlueData-Dell EMC Offerings

by Mark Haranas
“This is going to kill the Dell-BlueData deal," said Raymond Tuchman, CEO of Experis Technology Group, Potomac, Md., one of HPE's top enterprise partners. “We saw the same thing happen when HPE acquired Plexxi.”
HPE Adds New AI, Machine Learning InfoSight Capabilities To Boost Nimble, 3Par Performance

by Steven Burke
‘HPE is leveraging millions of sensors that are collecting storage data and proactively making recommendations to make sure customer workloads are running as efficiently as possible.’
HPE Kicks IoT Edge Computing Market Into High Gear With New Edgeline OT Link Platform

by Steven Burke
‘We have effectively invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich for the edge,’ says HPE Vice President Dr. Tom Bradicich. ‘It converges the control systems and industrial networks in the same box as IT functions like high performance computing, expandable storage, manageability and security.’
HPE Steps Up Composable Infrastructure Charge With New Mesh Network-Based SimpliVity Hyper-Converged System

by Steven Burke
HPE has announced a new version of its hyper-converged SimpliVity system with a composable mesh network fabric.
HPE Launches Dedicated North America Storage Business Unit

by Steven Burke
The new 550 employee unit – which is aiming to grow the storage business at 25 percent in the current fiscal year – is doubling the incentives for new customer wins for partners.
Partners: Where Google Cloud’s Diane Greene Failed And How Thomas Kurian Can Fix It

by Steven Burke
“Where Google has missed the boat is in truly building a robust channel that serves not just the enterprise but the midmarket and SMB portions of the market. Google as a company struggles with building an ecosystem that consistently supports the channel."
HPE Ups Its Management Game With Expansion Of InfoSight To Cover Server Environments

by Joseph F. Kovar
HPE InfoSight, originally designed for Nimble Storage environments and later expanded to HPE 3Par storage, is now bringing its artificial intelligence-based management and proactive problem-detection capabilities to HPE server environments.
New Aruba Wi-Fi 6 Access Points Are An IoT Game-Changer For Channel Partners

by Steven Burke
‘This new Aruba WiFi technology is going to create a perfect storm in our Internet of Things and edge computing business,’ says Steve Shaffer, founder and CEO of Zunesis, ‘We are very bullish on it. The four times improvement in performance alone with the ability to run parallel streams of data is going to allow us to do so much more at the edge from an IoT perspective.’
One Year Later: Aruba 8400 Grabbing Share From Cisco In Core Network Battle, Making IoT Gains

by Steven Burke
Aruba is doubling down on its 8400 core network switch with plans for new hardware and software releases after making US revenue share gains versus Cisco in the Ethernet switching market.
Cisco Teams With AWS On Cisco Hybrid Solution For Kubernetes

by Steven Burke
‘There used to be pretty clear market delineation between private cloud and public cloud, on-premises and off-premises," says Five Nines IT CEO Douglas Grosfield. ‘Large companies like Cisco are really blurring those lines and taking hybrid cloud to an entirely new level.’
Partners See Potential But Fear IBM’s $34B Acquisition Could ‘Blue Wash’ Red Hat

by Mark Haranas
"The modern approach to the way Red Hat looks at the market will be a shot in the arm for IBM. The key is just how will IBM integrate it and leverage it."