These IT Vendors Aced Their Partnership Tests, According To Solution Providers
Hello, and welcome back to CRN's newsletter on the latest news impacting the channel and technology industry over the past week.
In this edition, we take a look at CRN's Annual Report Card winners: The IT vendors that were scored the best by their solution provider partners; Intel's layoff plans; five key announcements from VMware Explore 2023 and more.
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2023 Annual Report Card Winners: Solution Providers Give Top Grades To Key Vendors
For the 38th year, CRN offered solution providers in North America the opportunity to grade the performance of their IT vendor partners with the CRN Annual Report Card (ARC).
The CRN ARC provides a look at which IT vendors are doing the best job meeting their partners' needs in terms of products, support, partner program resources and other critical criteria that determine the success or failure of a vendor-solution provider relationship.
The winners of this year's ARC project were announced in conjunction with XChange August 2023 , an annual conference hosted by CRN's parent company, The Channel Company, which was held this week in Nashville, Tenn.
Solution provider partners scored vendors across 25 technology categories and a total of 21 criteria, which you can learn more about here .
Find out which vendors made the grade .
For news, insights and highlights from XChange, check out CRN's coverage of the event .
[Related: MSPs Seeing Record Sales With Big Growth In Security Services: XChange 2023 (Read )]
New Intel Layoffs Impact GPU And Cloud Software Staff Among Wide Range Of Roles
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The semiconductor giant recently disclosed that it plans to lay off more than 300 employees across three office campuses in California. The roles impacted by the layoffs, part of Intel's ongoing cost-cutting campaign, encompass highly competitive areas that are strategically important for Intel: AI , cloud computing and GPUs .
VMware Explore's 5 Big Reveals: Updates To Tanzu, vSAN, NSX+, Workspaces And An AI Deal With Nvidia
VMware has refreshed several major products, created a new AI offering and handed customers "petabytes" of scalable storage, as CEO Raghu Raghuram vows it will infuse its products with AI features to help users better navigate IT complexity.
"It shows the innovation engine is running," Raghuram told CRN . "It shows multi-cloud is real. And of course, it shows how we are responding to the customers' AI needs."
Even with the announcements out of VMware Explore this week, Broadcom was the topic du jour for many partners after the company said Monday it would be allowed by statute to close its $61 billion acquisition of VMware on Oct. 30, near the end of its fiscal year.
[Related: Broadcom-VMware Deal Approval Comes Amid VMware Partner Renaissance (Read )]
Here are the biggest announcements from the event in Las Vegas.
CRN's complete coverage of VMware Explore 2023 is here .
[Related: 5 Big Partnerships Unveiled At VMware Explore: Nvidia, Oracle, IBM, Dell And Lenovo (Read )]
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