TOP STORIES Our biggest investment in 2019 will be on tools, analytics and automation: Rajnish Gupta, HP Inc. India Partner first strategy backs up Commvault’s channel play: Mark Fong Shibu Paul appointed VP of International Sales at Array Networks Amarish Karnik is India Channel Chief at Veeam FEATURES: PARTNER ECOSYSTEM ISVs join forces in channel automation play IBM revamps channel strategy to boost partner skills and enablement TCS, JDA Software partner to develop cognitive supply chain solutions LATEST MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (M&A) M&A mania as channel goes Microsoft Dynamics 365 crazy Cisco to acquire Singularity Networks Sophos to acquire second security start-up in a month EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWS Lenovo ups ante on data center story: Sumir Bhatia Dell Technologies aims USD 70 bn in channel sales in 2019: Joyce Mullen VIDEOS: PREMIER100 PLAYBACK Staying Relevant for the Future: K. Vaitheeswaran, Father of eCommerce State of The Channels 2018: Yogesh Gupta, IDG Media