Arrow Technology Summit is designed for channel partners to discover highly relevant solutions to meet their customers’ changing demands in the next normal. Our upcoming cloud summit brings together the world’s foremost technology suppliers and channel partners to explore innovative solutions and disruptive technologies that will help you expand your cloud business.
Attendees will learn how to capitalize on opportunities in the cloud space, as well as how Arrow can help you bring these opportunities to life through our services and aggregated technologies via our cloud delivery and management platform, ArrowSphere.
How to Create a Frictionless Environment in the New Normal
Speaker: Robert (Rob) Strickland, CEO and Founder, Move 37 Ventures, Inc.
What’s important to end customers in the new normal? How can channel partners help customers tackle the opportunities that exist in creating a frictionless environment by leveraging the cloud? Rob Strickland, award-winning and highly recognized former CIO/CTO of companies like T-Mobile, Cricket and Dish Network, lays out the challenges end customers are experiencing and the top things that are the most valuable for a channel partner to be able to provide right now. Sponsored by IBM
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Mark Taylor
President, Enterprise Computing Solutions, Americas, Arrow
Shannon McWilliams
Vice President, Cloud Sales, North America Enterprise Computing Solutions, Arrow
What’s important to end customers in the new normal? How can channel partners help customers tackle the opportunities that exist in creating a frictionless environment by leveraging the cloud? Rob Strickland, award-winning and highly recognized former CIO/CTO of companies like T-Mobile, Cricket and Dish Network, lays out the challenges end customers are experiencing and the top things that are the most valuable for a channel partner to be able to provide right now. Sponsored by IBM
Rob Strickland
Founder & CEO of Move 37 Ventures
Bryan Bollman (Moderator)
Director of Cloud, Arrow
Brian P. Fallon (Keynote Introduction)
Vice President, Worldwide Digital & Partner Ecosystem IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software
During this panel, hear a discussion around how channel partners can help the many customers that are now seeing the benefits of a multi-cloud model and want to take advantage. What are they looking for and how can channel partners shift to accommodate? Learn how to engage with customers in the RIGHT conversation around hybrid-cloud and subscription-based offerings with all the hyperscaler options.
John Austin (Moderator)
Strategic Alliances and Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Arrow Cloud Digital, Arrow
Maurice Martin
VP Partner Ecosystems, HPE
Inderjeet Rana
CTO, Financial Services, Hitachi Vantara
Jeremy Weinstein
Director of US Cloud Solution Providers, Intel
This panel will discuss how to get (and keep) your customers’ attention during a time where everyone else is trying to do the same, including the trends and technology to focus on.
Dan Brinkmann (Moderator)
Cloud Solutions Architect, Arrow
Derek Mitchell
Global Alliance Executive, Red Hat
Tom Stoner
Director, Cloud Sales, Splunk
Matt Kalmenson
Vice President, Commercial Sales and Service Providers, Veeam
Bryan Bollman
Director of Cloud, Arrow
During this panel, hear how hyperscalers approach the world of multi cloud and their strategies around teaming up with data center suppliers. We’ll also cover what they think the biggest impact of work from home has been on their business, and advice around how channel partners can maximize the benefits of a multi-cloud model.
John Austin (Moderator)
Strategic Alliances and Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Arrow Cloud Digital, Arrow
Aki Duvvur
VP, IBM Public Cloud, IBM Cloud
Brent Combest
Sr. Director, Microsoft
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Digital transformation is leading end customers to require hybrid multi-cloud solutions for success. As businesses move in this direction, platforms will be at the center of the transformation and where anything-as-a-service (XaaS) will be found, consumed and managed. In this session, we’ll discuss why you need to be leveraging a platform to profitably manage and scale your business.
Michele Connors
Global Product Marketing Leader, Arrow
Shannon McWilliams
Vice President, Cloud Sales, North America Enterprise Computing Solutions, Arrow
The integration of cloud technology into state and local infrastructures has gained momentum over the past several years. This has enabled them to pivot towards digital services through the use of newer, more agile and emerging technologies. This session will cover how state and local IT professionals are designing and leveraging cloud-based infrastructure to overcome obstacles and deliver critical citizen services.
Rachel Eckert
Market Intelligence Manager, immixGroup, an Arrow Company
Join us for a demonstration of ArrowSphere, Arrow’s award-winning cloud delivery and management platform for channel partners. See how ArrowSphere allows you to manage your customers’ cloud subscriptions across their entire lifecycle, from quoting and provisioning to invoicing and analytics. Learn how you can grow your cloud practice faster by deploying your own custom-branded portal directly to your customers. See what is available to you today and get a hint of what exciting new features will be available in 2021.
Wayne Aiello
Global Product Manager - ArrowSphere, Arrow
Hyperscale clouds aren’t just for IaaS workloads: PaaS is an even faster-growing portion of business. Learn how to get closer to the point of origin for your customers’ projects and strategies to add application modernization as a part of your practice.
Dan Brinkmann
Cloud Solutions Architect, Arrow
Cloud has proven to be critical in maintaining business growth in today’s world. Whether you are building a cloud practice or want to accelerate your existing one, Arrow can bolster your business through cloud strategy, thought leadership and other services that can transform and improve your value.
Brandon Lanier
Director of Services, North America, Arrow
Bryan Bollman, Arrow director of cloud, and Jeramey James, Compunet director of business development, will talk through a recent ArrowSphere case study where Compunet saw 15% compounded growth month-over-month. After leveraging self-services through ArrowSphere’s MyCloud Portal, they were even able to repurpose a full-time employee.
Bryan Bollman
Director of Cloud, Arrow
Jeramey James
Director of Business Development, Compunet
The purpose of this presentation is to highlight areas of risk related to cloud migration and how Micro Focus security solutions can help customers address these risks across the areas that matter most - users, apps and data.
Neil Correa
Cyber Security Strategist, Micro Focus
Kimberly King will walk through the opportunities Hitachi Vantara can create with partners in digital transformation, as well as an interview with Bobby Soni on the topic of whether IT will ever be the same. Brad Surak will then discuss how data can still save the world.
Kimberly King
VP, Strategic Partners and Alliances, Hitachi Vantara
Bobby Soni
President of Digital Infrastructure, Hitachi Vantara
Brad Surak
President of Digital Solutions, Hitachi Vantara
This session will offer perspective into how IBM is disrupting the technology industry, again, after undergoing a series of massive transformations, both in strategy and technology architecture, that have positioned IBM Cloud as "The Most Open & Secure Cloud for Business". And how IBM, along with its Partner Ecosystem, is strongly positioned and differentiated to win the Cloud battle, and the clients mindshare, through leading Security capabilities, Open Architecture, and Enterprise-grade capabilities, during this 'Chapter #2' of the Cloud evolution, and beyond.
Pavel G. Ferreri
Partner Ecosystem Integration Leader & Chief Evangelist, Alliances, IBM Cloud, IBM
Optimizing your data center on the cloud presents hardware and software challenges. For decades, Intel’s extensive innovations in hardware and software have enabled Cloud Service Providers the best performance and experience for their different workloads’ needs. In this discussion, listen in on what the best practices from Intel are to help you build your best cloud offerings.
Peter Tea
Platform Specialist, Intel
Jeremy Weinstein
Director US Cloud Solution Providers, Intel
Learn about latest updates in NetApp Public Cloud Portfolio and how partners can monetize on it. Get informed on how to leverage various rebates and incentives and get to know NetApp Cloud Channel team.
Delya Jansen
Sr Manager Cloud Channel Business Dev, NetApp
Nutanix unifies hybrid and multi-cloud operations on a single platform that lets you custom-build your cloud for maximum cost efficiency. Start your cloud journey on a flexible foundation, purpose-built for choice and simplicity.
Mike McLean
Sr Channel Sales Manager, Nutanix