7 Channel People Making Waves This Week at TD Synnex, Accenture, Broadcom, Snyk, More
More and more channel people are espousing the virtues of the metaverse.
October 28, 2022
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TD Synnex has signed an agreement to fulfill Dell Professional Services sold by their joint partners in the UK.
The agreement means that whenever partners sell a Dell Professional Services contract for server or storage products, TD Synnex can provide the support and service on behalf of Dell. The services on offer range from consulting to installation and deployment.
Andy Brown is technical services director, Advanced Solutions, UK and Ireland, TD Synnex. He made waves when he said that providing services with and through partners is an increasingly important element of the distributor’s business.
“Yet our technical and professional services capability is perhaps one of our best-kept secrets. All of that resource is also available to our partners who have a need for additional pre-sales consultancy or support, or chargeable post-sales implementation, maintenance and servicing.”
Read more here from Christine Horton’s story.
When there’s economic uncertainty, organizations turn to Gartner for some insight. They did so again this week. Daryl Plummer, a Gartner distinguished VP analyst and fellow, made waves in his talk at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. He outlined 10 strategic IT predictions shaping 2023 and beyond.
To view all the predictions, peruse through our slideshow here.
Julie Sweet, the CEO of Accenture, made waves at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in an interview that covered everything from her career ascension to the role hybrid work and the metaverse play in our society.
She also discussed artificial intelligence.
“The potential of AI is tied to the fact that you need to have data at scale. And companies are still very early in that journey,” Sweet said.
In the interview, Sweet discussed the advancement of other technologies. Find out which ones here.
Tanzu is a strategic part of VMware’s software portfolio and will remain so after Broadcom completes its $61 billion acquisition of VMware. Broadcom reportedly will try to fast-track antitrust approval of its VMware acquisition from the European Union.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan made waves when he acknowledged many customers and partners are asking him how he sees the VMware Tanzu portfolio and Broadcom’s future commitment to the Tanzu business.
“VMware Tanzu customers are running some of the most mission-critical applications in the world,” he said. “As customers think about future investments in cloud-native applications and the modern application development space, they should feel confident in Broadcom’s commitment going forward.”
Learn why increasing prices are not part of Broadcom’s strategy.
Snyk, the cloud-native application security provider, has initiated layoffs impacting 198 employees, representing 14% of the company’s workforce.
Peter McKay, Snyk’s CEO, made waves with his comments regarding the company’s goal to be more efficient.
“In June, I shared that we needed to adapt to an evolved mindset balancing continued top-line growth with profitability and committed to becoming free cash flow positive in 2024,” he said. “Our business continues to grow aggressively, more than doubling in size each year with currently over 2,300 customers. But we now must operate even more efficiently in order for Snyk to effectively withstand the continued headwinds facing the global economy.”
Read more here about Snyk’s ongoing organizational changes.
Seagate recently announced layoffs impacting 3,000 workers, or 8% of its worldwide workforce. The company unveiled a restructuring plan. Its earnings missed Wall Street expectations for revenue and earnings per share.
CEO Dave Mosley made waves for reiterating the same reasons many firms have given for layoffs.
“Global economic uncertainties and broad-based customer inventory corrections worsened in the latter stages of the September quarter,” he said. “And these dynamics are reflected in both near-term industry demand and Seagate’s financial performance. We have taken quick and decisive actions to respond to current market conditions and enhance long-term profitability, including adjusting our production output and annual capital expenditure plans, and announcing a restructuring plan that will deliver meaningful cost savings while maintaining investments in the mass capacity solutions driving our future growth.”
Seagate should complete its restructuring by the end of its fiscal second quarter.
Read more here about additional layoffs in the channel.
Cybereason is no longer rumored to be up for sale. However, the company would have made a decent buy, according to an expert.
Rik Turner is principal analyst at Omdia, which shares a parent company with Channel Futures (Informa). He made waves for his assertion that Cybereason would be a good acquisition target.
“Cybereason was among the first trailblazers in endpoint detection and response (EDR), the so-called three Cs and an S, i.e. Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, Cybereason and SentinelOne,” he said.
CrowdStrike and SentinelOne already IPOed “quite successfully” and appear to be going from strength to strength, Turner said. And VMware acquired Carbon Black. That left only Cybereason as a privately-held, dedicated player.
Learn how open XDR vendors could be among the company’s potential suitors should it go on the market at some point.
Cybereason is no longer rumored to be up for sale. However, the company would have made a decent buy, according to an expert.
Rik Turner is principal analyst at Omdia, which shares a parent company with Channel Futures (Informa). He made waves for his assertion that Cybereason would be a good acquisition target.
“Cybereason was among the first trailblazers in endpoint detection and response (EDR), the so-called three Cs and an S, i.e. Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, Cybereason and SentinelOne,” he said.
CrowdStrike and SentinelOne already IPOed “quite successfully” and appear to be going from strength to strength, Turner said. And VMware acquired Carbon Black. That left only Cybereason as a privately-held, dedicated player.
Learn how open XDR vendors could be among the company’s potential suitors should it go on the market at some point.
Channel people at TD Synnex, Accenture, Broadcom, Snyk and more are among the individuals making waves this week. Channel Futures’ Channel People Making Waves showcases those who have made an impact over the last seven days. (See our slideshow above.) It’s also a recap of the most-read stories on our website.
First up is a talk Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, gave at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo. A massive crowd of IT leaders listened to Sweet describe her career trajectory. They also got her thoughts on the future of hybrid work and the metaverse. You can read more about Sweet in our No. 5 story of the last seven days.
Nearly each week Channel Futures reports on a tech industry layoff. This week we covered three, including one that impacted Snyk. The company laid off 14% of its workforce. We published comments by Snyk’s CEO, who said the company had a desire to be more efficient. It was the primary reason the layoffs occurred.
Finally, Cybereason is no longer rumored to be up for sale. However, the company would have made a decent buy. As one analyst said, it was among “the first trailblazers in endpoint detection and response.”
That’s a wrap. And, if you didn’t catch our previous edition, you can find it here.
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