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When Ramaswami unveiled Nutanix’s latest North Star for data—Project Beacon—at its .NEXT show in Chicago earlier this year, he identified how customers will need to use data in the multi-cloud era. “The ultimate vision is to say, ‘Company, you can build an app. You can use these services and you can run them anywhere and you can be easily ported.’ That’s the vision. That’s the next level up, and that’s the journey for us,” he told CRN . It’s the latest announcement from a CEO
Danny Jenkins Co-Founder, CEO ThreatLocker
Matt Hicks President, CEO Red Hat
With Jenkins leading the way, ThreatLocker has expanded well beyond its flagship “application allow- listing” functionality to offer capabilities in a number of related areas. The com- pany also unveiled its first threat detection tool, Ops, in a move to help MSPs do even more to protect their customers.
“Focus” is the operative word for Hicks’ leader- ship style. In one year, the 17-plus-year Red Hat veteran has navigated a slowing economy and AI gold rush all while main- taining independence and pushing the boundaries of automation, developer tools and Linux.
RAJIV RAMASWAMI CEO Nutanix
8 Ulrich Seibold VP, Global GreenLake Partner, Service Provider Sales Hewlett Packard Enterprise Seibold has been like a bolt of lightning to the HPE GreenLake partner and service provider eco- system. In short order, he has put together a no- nonsense plan to drive GreenLake partner sales to 70 percent of total sales for the edge-to-cloud service. 1
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Jeff Clarke Vice Chairman, Co-COO Dell Technologies Count longtime Dell engi- neer Clarke as one of those who sees the massive potential in generative AI. At Dell Technologies World, he introduced Dell’s Project Helix, an on-site generative AI computer that is pow- ered with Dell’s Xe 9680 and eight of Nvidia’s Tensor Core H-100 GPUs.
John Kalvin VP, GM, Global Partners, Support Intel As part of his goal to drive “extreme partnership” at Intel, Kalvin has imple- mented several big changes in the Intel Partner Alliance program to help partners grow. These include more eligibility paths to gain Gold and Titanium tier status plus the ability for all partners to redeem points.
who since 2020 has charted his own course, leaving a senior role at VMware and taking on the top job at its archrival. As the pending acquisition of VMware by Broadcom draws out, Ramaswami said his job is to position Nutanix best for whatever outcome emerges. “For us though, we continue to talk to our customers, saying, ‘We’re in here for the long term. We’re looking to help you guys. Let us know how we can help you,’” he said.
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Fidelma Russo EVP, CTO
Jeff Ready CEO Scale Computing
Michael Gold CEO Intermedia
Brannon Lacey CEO Arcserve
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Few CTOs have had as big an impact on improving the hybrid cloud computing experience as Russo. The GreenLake hybrid cloud, edge and AI experience has gotten better and bet- ter as she continues to put her mark on the HPE tech- nology road map. Key was bringing the OpsRamp AI tool into the fold.
Ready is always looking ahead to catch the next innovation wave—from edge computing to AI— and isn’t afraid to go head to head with larger com- petitors. His IT knowledge and dedication to cus- tomers is evidenced by his having a long 16-year tenure as CEO.
Gold, an Intermedia vet- eran and the CEO for the past eight years, has propelled the partner-first provider of UCaaS, CCaaS and cloud business appli- cations to its impressive scale today, supporting more than 135,000 SMB customers and 8,500 channel partners.
Arcserve helped pioneer data protection and with Lacey as CEO since late 2021, Arcserve is going toe to toe with com- petitors. Lacey last year helped Arcserve get in front of issues related to its early 2021 acquisition of StorageCraft.
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