Fresh off my one-month blogbatical it is time to get back in the habit of providing channel partners with a weekly update on key McAfee news and information. This week’s highlights include, announcements made at the 2011 McAfee Partner Summit, two key technology announcements made at McAfee FOCUS11, Partner Summit press coverage, our Q4 Quarterly Read more…
Tags: Accredited Channel Engineer, ACE, channel partner, Channel Partner Town Hall, Channel Partners, Channel Program, Commercial and Enterprise Deal Registration, data center security, DeepDefender, ePO DeepCommand, Focus11, McAfee Channel, McAfee Partner Summit, Renee James
According to Forrester Research the global cloud market is poised for massive growth, jumping from $40.7B in 2011 to more than $241B 2020. This move to cloud is driving significant spend in next generation data centers as customers look to support their private cloud initiatives. I recently had the privilege of talking with Brett Kelsey, Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, channel partner, Channel Partners, cloud, data center, McAfee Channel, next generation data center, Virtualization
This is a new weekly blog post focused on providing our channel partners with easy access to key news and information. The blog includes a collection of short statements/thoughts designed to make it easy to read, informative and if lucky occasionally humorous. I smell a RAT, last week McAfee revealed Operation Shady RAT, an investigation Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, channel partner, Channel Partners, Dave Marcus, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gartner, IT as a Service, McAfee Channel, Operation Shady RAT, SaaS, Vanity Fair
This is a new weekly blog post focused on providing our channel partners with easy access to key news and information. The blog includes a collection of short statements/thoughts designed to make it easy to read, informative and if lucky, occasionally humorous. It’s a mutual respect thing, but glad to see The VAR Guy likes Read more…
Tags: Blackhat, channel partner, Channel Partners, CIO Insomnia Project, ePolicy Orchestrator, George Kurtz, intrusion prevention, McAfee Channel, McAfee Rewards, McAfee Security Management, The VARGuy
A new weekly blog post (introduced last week) for McAfee partners which highlights news and information from the previous week. Wow talk about a red carpet welcome…Intel reports 5th consecutive quarter of record revenue. Q2 Comment from Otellini: “It was a second quarter record for McAfee in terms of revenue.” Intel’s worldwide channels Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, channel partner, Channel Partners, Focus11, Paul Otellini
This is my inaugural blog here at McAfee. For those that don’t know me, I am the new leader of Worldwide Channels Marketing. I am a huge supporter of social media, because it’s an interactive communications platform that allows you (our partners) to instantly share your opinions or ideas with me, and vice versa. Therefore, Read more…
Tags: Alex Thurber, Channel Partners, Dave DeWalt, McAfee, Mike Decesare, Todd Gebhart
Yesterday we announced the appointment of Michael Decesare and Todd Gebhart as co-presidents of McAfee. Dave DeWalt will continue to provide strategic guidance and counsel to the company and customers as a nonemployee member of the McAfee Board. Here are three things I’d like to highlight regarding this announcement. 1) Channels remains one of the five Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, McAfee, McAfee Channel
The SMB market segment (companies with less than 250 employees) is the fastest growing part of the security market. As a continuation of our commitment to support our channel partners in this area, today we are announcing our new SMB Specialization. This specialization will make it easier for the members of our SecurityAlliance Partner Program Read more…
Tags: Channel Partners, McAfee Channel, security, SMB
Find out how McAfee partners can add recently-acquired Sentrigo solutions to their portfolio.
Tags: Acquisition, Channel Partners, database security, partners, risk, risk and, Risk and Compliance, security
Find out how partners are positively impacted by the Intel acquisition of McAfee
Tags: Acquisition, Channel Partners, Dave DeWalt, enterprise, intel, Mid-Market, partners, Public Sector
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