‘We’re committed to providing differentiated value and innovative solutions to partners and customers,” says Microsoft Chief Partner Officer Nicole Dezen.

March 22, 2023, 01:32 PM EDT

‘As things have moved to the cloud, that whole VAR community ended up with providers that didn’t really have a good cloud option for them. And a lot of times, if they did offer cloud-based UC, they had an agent model, which is a totally different business model. ... Recent moves in the industry are pushing partners our way,’ Intermedia COO Jonathan McCormick tells CRN.

March 20, 2023, 10:34 AM EDT

Zero trust is ‘something that we’re going to have to learn and adapt to—100 percent,’ one MSP tells CRN. ‘It’s coming.’

November 30, 2022, 11:34 AM EST

‘Cisco’s got some ground to cover, but it’s really about the long game. While you can argue they are late to market, we believe that they’re going to be able to learn from the lessons of all their competitors and come out with even stronger products,’ one Cisco partner tells CRN about the company’s as-a-service drive.

March 09, 2023, 12:41 PM EST

‘The Fed has been tasked with doing the impossible, and that is the idea that they could bring down inflation and raise interest rates without tripping the economy into a deep recession,’ says Peter Ricchiuti, business professor at Tulane University. ‘They’re threading a needle and nobody’s saying it, but so far it’s going pretty well. If you’d like to see inflation drop quicker, that would come with a recession.’