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t’s well-documented that the global IT skills gap not only exists, but it is also widening at a pace that has many CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other IT hiring managers falling regrettably into a “fret it and can’t forget it” mindset.

CRN’s Channel Chiefs list is an annual accolade listing the most impactful and well-respected channel leaders within vendor firms. Successful channel executives recognise the increasingly strategic role their channel partners play and are developing go-to-market plans and creating partner programmes that help partners meet those challenges. In 2024, for the first time, we’re running a dedicated list honouring the channel leaders of EMEA and APAC. Here are our 2024 Channel Chief honourees.

TechTarget awards infinidat’s (www.infinidat.com) InfiniBox™ SSA II Gold after it wins Storage Product of the Year in the disk and disk subsystems category, with judges praising the offering’s capacity bump to 6.635 petabytes effective after compression, and its scale-up storage architecture that lets users purchase storage in a new way.

Customer voices always speak volumes, so it comes as no surprise is see Garnter recognizing Infinidat (www.infinidat.com) for the second consecutive year in the 2024 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer,” Region Segment: North America.

Day-after-day we hear reports about the IT Skills Gap. Hitting all aspects of IT, the hunt for valuable human resources to execute IT plans of CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other IT hiring managers has become incredibly onerous. The IT Skills Gap is widening at such an accelerated pace that many enterprises are falling, regrettably, into a “fret it and can’t forget it” mindset.

Disaster recovery is not only about natural disasters. In today's intermingling of physical and digital worlds, "data disasters" have arisen with the potential to bring enterprises across all industries to their knees. Data is among the most valuable assets of an enterprise, but it is also the target of cyber criminals who are intent on creating human-generated or AI-generated "disasters" that wreak havoc, distract leaders, and incur the most harm possible.

If you’re looking for a cybersecurity model that can be used for enterprise storage, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a comprehensive approach that is approachable, practical, and solid. It’s not tied to any one vendor, but rather is a rich set of best practices and a set of standards for cost-effective security. Another way of thinking about it is as a far-reaching set of security recommendations that address cyber threats – with one area of focus being storage infrastructure, including data protection and cyber recovery. Cyber threats are on the minds of Fortune 500 CEOs, who have ranked cybersecurity as their #2 concern.

If you’re looking for a cybersecurity model that can be used for enterprise storage, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a comprehensive approach that is approachable, practical, and solid. It’s not tied to any one vendor, but rather is a rich set of best practices and a set of standards for cost-effective security. Another way of thinking about it is as a far-reaching set of security recommendations that address cyber threats – with one area of focus being storage infrastructure, including data protection and cyber recovery. Cyber threats are on the minds of Fortune 500 CEOs, who have ranked cybersecurity as their #2 concern.