We are live from the Aruba Atmosphere 2018 conference in Las Vegas.  We continue our series of interviews with Janice Le, VP of Global Marketing.

We are live from the Aruba Atmosphere 2018 conference in Las Vegas.  We start our series of interviews with an Aruba partner, Chad Williams, the President of PIER Group (Partners in Education and Research).

And we ask Chad, what does a partner really want.  He has some good answers.

We are joined by John Glendenning SVP Sales and Business Development at StorMagic.

Solution Providers: IT Convergence Means More Money For Us

Salesforce this week surprised a lot of folks by moving to acquire MuleSoft for $6.5 billion

SAP Partner Acquisitions

IBM joins the ranks of IT vendors aiming to make it simpler to do business in the channel

Michael Dell states that On-Premises Solutions Are More 'Cost Effective' Than Public Cloud

Documentation Platform War Comes to the Channel

The channel has a bad case of the slows when it comes to new solutions.

Our interview with Gordon Mackintosh the Vice President, WW Channels at Extreme Networks.

Alexa for Business is opening up new opportunities for VARS

Salesforce is back after small business customers

Apple is getting serious about the enterprise.

Mesosphere Emerges as a Bridge Between the Old and the Microservices New

AMD had a bad week.

MSPs need to focus more on cyber resiliency rather than basic managed security services

Is AI a threat to Solution Providers

Our interview with the CEO of PlanetOne Communications, Ted Schuman

D&H has a new program for partners interested in starting a Cisco Meraki practice.

VMware is trying to mobilize the channel to gain some relevance in the cloud.

Acronis has partnered with Google Cloud Platform

Kaseya has decided to add Unitrends to its data protection services mix

Only 23 percent of solution provider sales executives look at marketing as extremely important

The Pentagon slashes the value of $950M cloud contract for AWS by 90 percent

RANT - The end of partner tiers?

Our interview with Wayne Berkowitz, Vice President of Partner Success at Continuum

This week we talk about:

VMware / Dell reverse merger talks are heating up

Samsung Galaxy S9

Data Center Build-outs are accelerating

Splunk Dives Deeper into the Channel

Waiting for 5G