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For tech and business leaders partnering with VMware, we discuss trends, topics, and strategies for moving the business forward in the digital era. You‘ll hear from a range of global executives-including VMware leadership-about their struggles, successes, and strategies for handling what‘s coming next.
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Friday Sep 10, 2021
Friday Sep 10, 2021
Steve White, Program Vice President of Channels and Alliances at IDC, leads a group of analysts who recently completed a major research study in partnership with VMware. The study looked at how the pandemic magnified customer challenges and shaped current market trends. In this episode, Steve and Kathleen discuss how the growing desire for business solutions to be flexible and consumption-based is driving the acceleration to SASE. Steve offers a perspective on the impact of partner engagement on the services multiplier, how the complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud services has increased partner opportunities, and how automation and A.I. will be a major focus over the next 10 years. Enjoy this fascinating and insightful discussion.
About the Guest: Steve White is Program Vice President, Channels and Alliances at IDC. You can find him on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whiteysteve or on Twitter: @whiterope
To learn more about Steve’ recently published analyst brief: Why and How Customer Trends are driving partner ecosystem transformation: please visit: https://www.vmware.com/partners/partner-executive-edge/idc.html
About the Host: Kathleen Tandy is Vice President of Global Partner and Alliance Marketing at VMware. You can find Kathleen on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktandy85/, or on Twitter at @kaktandy.
To learn more about VMware's partner programs, please visit: https://www.vmware.com/partners/partner-executive-edge.html.
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