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Round 4 voting is open!! Vote now to send your favorite chief to the Championship ????? https://okt.to/dmxJBE This round runs until Monday, March 31, at 12 PM ET #CRNChannelMadness

Tom Krause, the CEO of Citrix parent Cloud Software Group?who’s working with the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency,?said that his job as fiscal assistant secretary of the Treasury Department is to apply “public company standards to the federal government.”

AI is transforming business at an unprecedented pace, but without ethical guardrails, it can reinforce bias and erode trust. What does it take to ensure fairness, accountability, profitability and transparency in this new era? Cass Cooper, MHR, breaks down nine helpful tools to get you started:

CrowdStrike’s push into the fast-growing market for modern security information and event management (SIEM) replacement technologies is the “perfect inflection point” for the cybersecurity giant to introduce a wider set of service opportunities for partners, according to CrowdStrike Co-Founder and CEO George Kurtz. Without a doubt, “having the partners to help transition customers from their legacy, people-intensive processes — to a much more automated and AI-led process — is critically important,” Kurtz said in an interview with Kyle Alspach ahead of this week’s CrowdStrike Americas Partner Symposium. “There’s big opportunity and big dollars as companies look to build practices [valued in the] hundreds of millions of dollars” around products such as Next-Gen SIEM. Kurtz discussed CrowdStrike’s new Services Partner Program focused on Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, along with Google’s planned $32 billion acquisition of Wiz and more:

Flexera’s new 2025 State of the Cloud report sheds light on how over 750 public cloud customers are spending their cloud dollars on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and IBM Cloud. From how much customers are spending per month to how many cloud clients are leveraging MSPs, here are the most important takeaways from the report:

In this edition, we take a look at what Microsoft solution providers are saying about Microsoft's "aggressive" direct-to-customer cloud renewal communications. Plus: - Intel partners' thoughts on the chipmaker's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan; they say his outside perspective could help revitalize Intel, but they also raise questions about Intel's channel investments and predict that more job cuts could be on the way - Our 2025 Partner Program Guide and more #CRNPPG

Good news: We have extended the deadline to apply for our third annual Inclusive Channel Leaders Awards! You now have an extra week to get applications in by Friday, April 4. Here's where you'll find details and can apply: https://okt.to/Q4c3Ey. These awards honor people who spotlight inclusivity in their channel leadership roles and will recognize those who effectively defend and promote the principles of inclusive leadership and demonstrate a passion for fostering diversity and inclusion within their teams, companies and/or the channel at large. ?? Winners will be published on CRN.com in July and in the August issue of CRN Magazine. #CRNInclusiveLeaders

You have one week left to apply for our 2025 Tech Innovator Awards! ???? We're looking for cutting-edge products and services that deliver exceptional innovation and value for solution providers and their customers. If that sounds like something you offer, then you can learn more and apply here: https://okt.to/jsvfAu. Winners will be published in the August issue of CRN Magazine and online. Applications are due next Friday, April 4, by 11:59 PM PT. #CRNInnovators #TechInnovation

Who's headed to the #CRNChannelMadness Championship?! Will it be OpenText's Michael DePalma or 1Password's Lori Cornmesser? Sophos' Scott Barlow or 2024 Channel Madness Champion Tom Evans, competing this year for Cloudflare? If you want your favorite chief to have a shot at the crown, then keep voting through the end of Round 4 on Monday, March 31, at 12 PM ET ???↗? https://okt.to/6Bzn1E OpenText Partner Sophos Partners

At the close of Women’s History Month, Cass Cooper, MHR, explores what a transgender woman can teach us about building inclusive workplaces. Read Cass’s column here: