NWN announced the acquisition of Carousel Industries, bringing together two Cisco Gold partners to tackle the market for unified communications (UC), collaboration, networking and security.
NWN Carousel CEO Jim Sullivan said that NWN’s acquisition of Carousel Industries will offer scale that is necessary to serve customers effectively in the cloud communications market.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s Plan To Unlock ‘Trillions Of Dollars’ In Partner Opportunity
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella views every business program or business model change through a channel lens: How does it impact partners and how will it help them drive technology acceleration? By Donna Goodison April 12, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s been absorbed in the technology giant’s “partner-first” culture for nearly 30 years, spends a lot of time contemplating how solution providers are impacted by every decision the company makes.
“One of the things that I want to design in our core is whether it’s the move from license to consumption or license to subscriptions what is the partner opportunity,” Nadella said in an exclusive interview with CRN. “We want to [know] from day one in any change we make whether it’s a program change or business model change, what does it mean for partners?”