Skov, who is Danish and has been running Aruba’s channel business in northern Europe, replaces Donna Grothjan, who retired this year.
The networking giant is going deeper into platforms, interconnected products and AI to make life easier for the people who design, deploy, and architect their offerings.
An integration with Azure Active Directory, which will soon be followed by other identity options, provides users with a passwordless experience which is always on, so can’t be avoided by the end user.
Aruba’s channel leaders summed up the importance of the Atmosphere event for partners, and gave an indication of where partner strategy is headed.
With the promise of Private 5G, which is a new technology for Aruba, and Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, wireless is likely to become a larger component of Aruba’s business.
Aruba acknowledges that Agile NaaS, which helps partners and customers customize networking solutions for specific use cases, will always be for a smaller share of customers, but says it will have great value for them, and it’s still a segment which is large enough to pursue.
HPE CEO and HPE Aruba leader Phil Mottram outlined how Aruba fits into HPE’s broader unified cloud experience focus, and detailed how Aruba is positioning itself going forward.
The next generation version contains multiple new features designed to make customers lives easier, on a platform that will manage all of Arubas expanding solutions inventory
With its new Accelerate Partner Program, Gluware has built out new tools to drive more partner incremental business, services and automation, and has gotten into distribution with Ingram Micro.
The entire program has been formalized to assist global expansion and develop 5G opportunities, but changes have been made to MSP enablement in particular to drive this segment forward.
Acquista, who has had channel leadership roles at a variety of companies in the security space, comes in with a fresh perspective, for while Gigamon already has a channel-first strategy, they see considerable room to grow further.
The $12 million funding round brings Expeto’s total financing to more than $20 million, which will be used both to expand their innovation and to further develop their Go-to-Market strategy, which has a channel component.
Global expansion beyond North America is another key element of the strategy to take Auvik’s growth to the next level.
EnGenius has been primarily an enterprise networking player, but they see a strong opportunity in the small business market, and have crafted a new and simple to use portfolio to address it.
Cradlepoint sees the market for this service as expanding greatly next year, because enterprise demand for 5G network slicing is increasing as both the technology and pricing become more attractive.
The lessons of tech’s role in the pandemic and a new generation of executives will mean IT spending will not soon be on the block if the economy struggles, Cisco’s CEO tells partners.
The key innovations are native integrations of several solutions into the company’s SASE for the first time.
Likely the most intriguing of these announcements is the extension of the NSX platform by delivering multi-cloud networking and security as a service through Project Northstar, which entered Technology Preview.
The significant expansion of the cloud marketplace business has led Cisco to make changes to its support of partners in this area, as they look to do business with the commercial market that learns from their hyperscaler business.
The new services will make it simpler for partners to put together all-Cradlepoint solutions, and make it easier for them to bring technologies designed for a wired world for the cellular world.
