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This week, hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, chat about some of the key points from the 2016 Cisco Partner Summit. Cisco Channel Chief Wendy Bahr spoke about the evolution of partner strategy and it's components. She also talked about priorities including security, software and line of business selling. Hear about some of her other comments and how Diane and Charlene think these strategies will affect Cisco partners and the partner channel as a whole. Do you agree? Let us know what you think.

This week, hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss the big news from Thursday: Ingram Micro is being acquired by Tianjin Tianhai for $6 billion. Charlene and Diane reflect on the top questions the channel should be asking in the months to come along with possible answers. Only time will tell how this acquisition may affect other distributors, channel partners and vendors, but it's certainly interesting to speculate and see how the channel adapts. Listen to the discussion and tell us what you think!

This week, hosts Charlene O'Hanlon, channel industry editor & writer, and Diane Krakora, CEO of PartnerPath, discuss Diane's frustration at the absence of any channel discussion at a recent SaaS Conference, SaaStr Annual 2016 in San Francisco. Over 5,000 SaaS founders, executives and investors were in attendance and several sessions specifically targeted growth, acceleration beyond startup and how to scale sales. So where was the discussion on how channel partners and solution providers can help build solutions around SaaS technologies? Diane and Charlene try to make sense of it.