{"id":40705,"date":"2017-08-25T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=40705"},"modified":"2018-01-11T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T16:55:57","slug":"partner-channel-scoop-august-25-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/partner-channel-scoop-august-25-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Scoop \u2013 August 25, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SKO18: <\/strong>More than 900 partners, representing more than 300 companies, joined us in Las Vegas this week. Thank you for joining us and remember, success as a NextWave partner is dependent on being or becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/next-gen-security-innovator-infographic.pdf\">next-generation security innovator<\/a>, an expert at enhancing an integrated and automated security platform that empowers innovation to deliver business gains to our mutual customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SKO18 Global Award Winners: <\/strong>Earlier this week we recognized eight partner of the year winners for FY17. These partners are the best of the best and are blazing a trail to become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/next-gen-security-innovator-infographic.pdf\">next-generation security innovators.<\/a> Here are this year\u2019s winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americas Partner of the Year:<strong> Presidio<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>APAC Partner of the Year: <strong>ACPL<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>EMEA Partner of the Year: <strong>Dimension Data<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Global Consultant Partner of the Year: <strong>Accenture<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Global Distribution Partner of the Year: <strong>Exclusive Networks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Global Service Provider of the Year: <strong>BT<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Global Traps Partner of the Year: <strong>ON2IT<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Japan Partner of the Year: <strong>ITOCHU<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"2016\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40708 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SKO18-Global-Award-Winners1.jpg\" alt=\"SKO18 Global Award Winners[1]\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>SKO18 Traps: <\/strong>The endpoint market was a major focus of this year\u2019s sales kickoff. Together with our partners we have an opportunity to disrupt the endpoint market. This is a massive growth opportunity made even better for partner sales reps that create and close Traps business thanks to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/traps\/fy18-secureup-traps-promotion.pdf\">Secure Up promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SKO18 Public Cloud: <\/strong>The cloud is changing everything, including the importance of a platform approach to security. Visit our new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/partner-program\/public-cloud\">Public Cloud Partner Portal<\/a> page for more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blog of the Week: <\/strong>One of the most requested items partners worldwide want from us is access to case studies. This week you can read about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/customer-spotlight-bank-ocbc-nisp-cuts-management-time-half-palo-alto-networks-next-generation-security-platform\/\">Bank OCBC NISP<\/a> deployed the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform to cut management time in half.<\/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>Dig into this week's NextWave Partner Channel Scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,78],"tags":[4234,876,4231,778],"coauthors":[1373],"class_list":["post-40705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciociso","category-partners","tag-global-award-winners","tag-public-cloud","tag-skofy18","tag-traps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PAN-channel-scoop-banner-498x269-v2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705","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=40705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40744,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions\/40744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}