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.
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Antonio Neri Is ‘Doing Well,’ Has Not Had COVID-19 Symptoms For 10 Days
by Steven Burke
‘A leader leads by example,’ says PKA Technologies CEO Felise Katz. ‘I can not say enough about Antonio’s leadership and how he has conducted himself over the last two weeks. There are no words for it. You have to set an example as a CEO. That is what Antonio did.’
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A New Security Perch: MSP Superstar David Powell Takes On ‘Number One Problem’ Facing Partners
by Steven Burke
“Most MSPs don’t do security very well themselves, which makes it hard for them to do it for their clients,” says Perch Security Vice President of Sales David Powell. “We need MSPs to increase their security adoption to protect all their downstream clients. If MSPs don’t get this together there is a combined risk across their client base. The bad guys are becoming more sophisticated at breaking into MSP networks to get to MSP clients.”
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‘Truly Inspirational:’ After COVID-19 Diagnosis, Antonio Neri Goes All Out For HPE Discover Virtual
by Steven Burke
‘It was truly inspirational to all of us in the partner community,’ says PKA Technologies Vice President of Sales Paul Cohen. ‘Antonio didn’t miss a beat during HPE Discover Virtual. He was clear, concise and laser-focused on his messaging to partners. It’s really important to us to know that he is committed to the channel.’
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HPE’s Keith White: Dell’s Cloud ‘Can’t Compete’ With GreenLake
by Steven Burke
HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Business Group General Manager Keith White says that rival Dell simply cannot match GreenLake’s pay-per-use, public cloud-like experience.
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HPE Ezmeral Is ‘Undisputed Leader’ In AI Battle With AWS, VMware, Red Hat: Kumar Sreekanti
by Steven Burke
HPE CTO Kumar Sreekanti says the company's new Ezmeral container platform is a cut above the competition.
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Container Wars: HPE Throws Down On VMware, Red Hat With Ezmeral Launch
by Steven Burke
“What we are giving customers with Ezmeral is the only software where you can run legacy apps and cloud native apps under the same pane of glass,” said HPE Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Kumar Sreekanti,
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Antonio Neri’s 10 Boldest Statements From HPE Discover Virtual
by Steven Burke
HPE CEO Antonio Neri told HPE Discover virtual attendees that HPE GreenLake Cloud Services means customers don’t have to ever get hit with data egress charges or 'pay 2X the cost of storing data just to get it back.' Here are Neri’s 10 boldest statements from HPE Discover Virtual.
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Antonio Neri: HPE’s New Container Tech Tops VMware, Nutanix
by Steven Burke
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri says the edge-to-cloud platform provider’s new open-source, cloud-native Ezmeral software for containers and machine learning eclipses rival offerings from VMware and Nutanix.
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HPE GreenLake Blockbuster: New Standardized Building Blocks For Partners To Sell
by Steven Burke
‘This is really built for the channel,’ says GreenLake Cloud Services Business Group General Manager Keith White. ‘This gives them much more standardized opportunities to deliver these services, such as virtual machines or containers or machine learning-type capabilities, depending on what they want to deliver to their customer set. It gives them that flexibility.’
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COLUMN: Future Shock -- COVID-19 Channel Upheaval
by Steven Burke
CRN's Steve Burke says the old channel playbook has been thrown out the window.
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Partners ‘Rooting’ For HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s Speedy COVID-19 Recovery
by Steven Burke
‘We were very heartened to hear last night that he was already feeling better,’ said Comport Consulting President Mike Vencel. ‘That is a great sign. The entire Comport family is pulling for Antonio to beat this very quickly. Our message to him is get well soon, and we are looking forward to seeing him next week at Virtual HPE Discover.’
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HPE CEO Antonio Neri: ‘I Tested Positive For COVID-19’
by Steven Burke
‘I recently learned of some unfortunate personal news,’ says Neri in a Twitter post. ‘Yesterday I tested positive for COVID-19. The good news is, I feel much better already and plan to proceed with business as usual while I quarantine from home.’
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Soni Jiandani: Why Pensando’s Edge Platform Leapfrogs AWS’ Nitro System
by Steven Burke
Pensando Co-founder and Chief Business Officer Soni Jiandani says the company’s breakthrough edge platform, which is now available on some Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers and HPE GreenLake, leapfrogs AWS’ Nitro system architecture.
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‘Huge’ Security Advantage: HPE Servers, GreenLake Are Now Available With Disruptive Pensando Edge Platform
by Steven Burke
‘The minute you include a (Pensando) distributed service card in an HPE server is it not only takes over the function of a classic adapter in your server, but it also prevents the bad actors or unauthorized people to not get root access to your compute infrastructure and your compute platform which is a huge advantage from a security perspective,’ says Pensando co-founder and Chief Business Officer Soni Jiandani.
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