{"id":24909,"date":"2017-03-03T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=24909"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:28:58","slug":"partner-channel-scoop-march-3-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/partner-channel-scoop-march-3-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Scoop \u2013 March 3, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back and relax while we bring you this week\u2019s channel scoop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PAN-OS 8.0 Marketing How-To Guide: <\/strong>Now that you have had time to review the PAN-OS 8.0 launch, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/announcing-pan-os-8-0-biggest-launch-yet\/\">largest release<\/a> in our company\u2019s history, let us help you run a marketing campaign. Everything you need, from customer emails to copy blocks can be found <a href=\"https:\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/emea\/80807\/OS8-v3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >in the how-to guide<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/lightcyber-joins-palo-alto-networks\/\"><strong>Palo Alto Networks Acquires LightCyber<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong>Our Next-Generation Security Platform gets stronger as does the justification to accelerate your migration to becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/partner-how-palo-alto-networks-is-building-next-generation-security-innovators\/\">next-generation security innovators<\/a>. The plan is to integrate the LightCyber technology into our platform by the end of the calendar year, strengthening the overall customer value proposition by adding advanced behavioral analytics to our existing threat prevention capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PAN-OS 8.0 Sales Training: <\/strong>We had two more Sales Insight sessions this past week: <em>Learn all about the latest release of WF-500 WildFire Appliance <\/em>and <em>Threat Intelligence Made Easy with AutoFocus and MineMeld. <\/em>This brings the total of PAN-OS 8.0 focused Sales Insights to five. All of the replays for these sessions can be accessed via our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-sell\/new-pan-os-8\">PAN-OS 8.0 Partner Portal page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark Your Calendars for Ignite 2017: <\/strong>This year we are in Vancouver, from June 12-15. Not familiar with Ignite? Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/marketing\/docs\/pan-ic17-partner-faq.pdf\">Partner FAQ<\/a>, where you can learn why you and your customers should be planning to join us this year. Also, we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/palo-alto-networks-ignite-partner-promo.pdf\">Sell 10 Get 1 Free<\/a> promotion for our partners, so don\u2019t delay adding Ignite passes to your next deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Congrats to Our 2017 Partner Satisfaction Survey Winners: <\/strong>We had more than 800 partners from around the world participate in our 2017 Partner Satisfaction survey. This feedback is paramount to molding and shaping our channel strategy. As a token of our appreciation, every partner who completed the survey was eligible to participate in our random draw. We randomly selected five partners from the Americas, APAC and EMEA regions for a total of 15 to win a $100 Amazon gift card and one partner to receive an Apple iWatch. Here are the winners:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Apple iWatch:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Patrick Donlin \u2013 Amerinet<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Amazon Gift Card - Americas:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Tom Turkot - Arlington Computer Products<br \/>\nJuan Pablo Rodriquez \u2013 TSA<br \/>\nAlberto Gomez Figueroa \u2013 NeoSecure<br \/>\nMarius Mocanu \u2013 Telus<br \/>\nDebra Iverson \u2013 SynerComm<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Amazon Gift Card - APAC:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Gerry Thomas \u2013 Telstra<br \/>\nBrett Brown \u2013 Enosys Solutions<br \/>\nNestor Dela Cruz \u2013 Fujitsu<br \/>\nStuart Wong \u2013 Datacom Systems<br \/>\nJay Dias \u2013 Dimension Data<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Amazon Gift Card \u2013 EMEA<br \/>\n<\/strong>Bernadette Rowan \u2013 Teneo<br \/>\nJuha Hilden \u2013 Elisa<br \/>\nChristian Gaudin \u2013 Novidy\u2019s<br \/>\nDante Klerkx \u2013 SecureLink<br \/>\nChristian Weber -- IBM<\/p>\n<p>*To access content on the Partner Portal you must be a Palo Alto Networks NextWave channel partner and have a valid user name and password. Email <a href=\"mailto:NextWave@paloaltonetworks.com\">NextWave@paloaltonetworks.com<\/a> to request Partner Portal access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back and relax while we bring you this week\u2019s channel scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":23303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,78],"tags":[1819,3309,3188],"coauthors":[1373],"class_list":["post-24909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-scoop","category-partners","tag-ignite","tag-lightcyber","tag-pan-os-8-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/small-channel-scoop-banner-498x269.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24921,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions\/24921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}