This episode we talk with the team from Passportal: Dan Wensley, President and Colin Knox Founder and CEO.

This week we discuss:

Baptie Channel Focus 2018

Barracuda Networks firewall-as-a-service

Commvault Leans into the Channel

HPE Buys Plexxi to Boost SDN Play

Rackspace launches Kubernetes as a service

Where is the real IoT opportunity?

This weeks news:

Kaseya One

Cybercrime is a $1.5 Trillion Business

Red Hat building a container ecosystem

CA Is Making Some Staffing Adjustments

Nutanix puts shot across VMware bow

Microsoft needs to focus more on the pace of Windows 10 migrations

Our interview with Tim Brown the VP  of Security for SolarWinds MSP.

#riverbed #cisco #solarwindsmsp #DandH #Techdata #Kaseya #Xerox #Dell #Pivotal

The Riverbed Partner Conference

SolarwindsMSP Survey

D&H Unfurls DaaS Program for the Channel

Tech Data wants to help Cisco partners transition

The High Cost of Certifications

Kaseya Acquiring Unitrends

Rumor Apollo Global Management Bidding For Xerox

Dell Technologies to Unify Channel

Pivotal Software Preps Channel Program

Overly Complicated IoT Ecosystem

We discuss GDPR with Tom Serani, the EVP of Global Channels at SiteLock.

From the Riverbed Partner Conference here in Huntington Beach, CA, we are joined by Bridget Bisnette, Vice President of Global Channels and Commercial Sales at Riverbed.

This week's topics:

Java Moving to the Cloud with a Big Jakarta Boost from Eclipse Foundation

Ransomware Blues

Diamanti Adds Channel Program

PE Strikes Again

Google Revamps Gmail for the first time since 2013

This week we are joined by Shawn Kinnear, Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Diamanti, a provider of hyper-converged infrastructure optimized for containers, and Fred Love, Vice President of Marketing.

This week we talk about:

Cisco Partner Connection Week!

RSA Show Witnesses Signing of Historic Cybersecurity Accord

Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Report

Rackspace Reveals Cloud Selling App & Videos For Solution Sellers

Tech Data is getting a new CEO

Channel starts to figure out the container conundrum

Master Agents, are they necessary anymore?