{"id":70121,"date":"2018-03-23T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=70121"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:29:10","slug":"partner-channel-scoop-march-23-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/partner-channel-scoop-march-23-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Scoop: March 23, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back, relax and enjoy this week\u2019s Channel Scoop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traps 5.0: <\/strong>Traps advanced endpoint protection is the buzz this week as we\u00a0ignited the channel by introducing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelbuzz.ca\/tag\/cloud\/\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >cloud<\/a>-delivered management service and a more intuitive user interface. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-sell\/traps\">Find<\/a> everything you need,\u00a0including the Sales and Channel Playbook. Janet Matsuda, SVP Product Marketing, was also quoted in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelbuzz.ca\/2018\/03\/palo-alto-networks-brings-cloud-management-option-new-ui-to-traps-endpoint-protection-25093\/?utm_source=website&amp;utm_campaign=wordtwit&amp;utm_medium=web\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Channel-Buzz article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Q3 NextWave Partner Huddle: <\/strong>Great product marketing highlights from Janet Matsuda and a Traps 5.0 overview from Sam\u00a0Svitenko, our new Sr. Director WW Partner Programs CSS.\u00a0\u00a0If you missed the session this week, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/partner-program\/events\">presentation or replay<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Competitive Intelligence:\u00a0<\/strong>Differentiating Palo Alto Networks on our next-generation security platform and prevention first approach is the best way to keep the competition out of your account. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-sell\/competitive\">Find<\/a> current battle cards, Insight webinar replays and\u00a0other competitive information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CRN Channel Chiefs 2018:\u00a0<\/strong>Our own Ron Myers is named one of the 50 most influential channel chiefs of 2018. Ron describes the partner organization\u2019s accomplishments, and how our partner community has grown over the past year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crn.com\/channel-chiefs\/cc2018-details.htm?c=227&amp;wc=4\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ignite \u201918 \u2013 Anaheim, May 21-24: <\/strong>This event will be overflowing with highly technical 1:1 sessions, the latest in network security, endpoint security and cloud security, specialized course tracks, technological disruption, expert speakers, outstanding networking opportunities, and much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-market\/ignite-2018\">Special pricing<\/a> available for you and your customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the latest NextWave Partner news in this week's Channel Scoop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,78],"tags":[1819,5675,5627],"coauthors":[4968],"class_list":["post-70121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-scoop","category-partners","tag-ignite","tag-q3-nextwave-partner-huddle","tag-traps-5-0"],"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\/70121","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\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70127,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70121\/revisions\/70127"}],"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=70121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=70121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}