Couple this with the growing sentiment of channel partners to realign with tier-one channel partners around AI driven cloud opportunities and you have a sufficient business case for cloud marketplaces to become regional and in-country based on scales of demand and enablement .

As an example , the hosting infrastructure for the Mindware Cloud Marketplace involves dedicated instances of the platform reetings to the global readers of Intelligent for each country it serves : UAE , Saudi Tech Channels .

Arabia , Qatar , Kuwait , Oman , Lebanon , For channel partners who were born Jordan , Morocco , Tunisia , and Ivory Coast . in the client server era , who have built

This strategic approach ensures that expertise in integrating mountainous stacks each country ’ s marketplace operates of systems infrastructure , the move to autonomously , tailored to local regulatory a cloud based business model has been and compliance requirements , including local sluggish . However as computing begins to currency transactions and tax implications . become disaggregated across public cloud , Mindware ’ s Cloud Marketplace plays a on premises private cloud and the Edge , pivotal role to automate cloud operations , driven mostly by the emerging use cases from ordering , consumption reporting to around AI , channel partners are relooking at invoicing , thereby contributing significantly the opportunities emerging from tomorrow ’ s to operational effectiveness . Mindware is AI driven data use cases . committed to building a robust ecosystem

comprised of system integrators with service delivery competences and creating synergies with Independent Software Vendors around hyper-scalers .

Turn these pages to read more about the opportunities and challenges for channel partners in global and regional markets .

With the beginning of a new year , the focus is of course on predictions , forecasts and advisories for the year ahead and this is our focus in this month ’ s Editor ’ s Question as well . While 2024 was a year of challenge , 2025 promises to be a year of adaptation . What are the opportunities , challenges , transformations , likely to impact channel partners in 2025 ? Executives from BeyondTrust , SolarWinds , Pure Storage share their predictions .

As we close the pages on 2024 , we wish you the best of business and transformational success in 2025 .

Arun Shankar Managing Editor arun @ lynchpinmedia . com

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