Tag: AI

For the week ending Oct. 11, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Presidio, AMD, Intel, Microsoft and the winners of the CRN 2024 Triple Crown Award. The Week Ending Oct. 11 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is solution provider Presidio for a strategic…

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With the new Databricks Apps partners and customers can rapidly build and deploy native applications for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform that tap into the system’s data and leverages its data security and governance capabilities. Databricks is launching a public preview of Databricks Apps, a new set of development capabilities that the company says provides…

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While AMD says its forthcoming Instinct MI325X GPU can outperform Nvidia’s H200 for large language model inference, the chip designer is teasing that its next-generation MI350 series will deliver magnitudes of better inference performance in the second half of next year. AMD said its forthcoming 256-GB Instinct MI325X GPU can outperform Nvidia’s 141-GB H200 processor…

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“This strategic acquisition provides the right mix of synergies and growth opportunities for both organizations and aligns perfectly with our focus on investing in opportunities that foster growth and innovation,” said Presidio CEO Bob Cagnazzi. Channel partner all-star Presidio is significantly expanding its market presence in the U.S. by acquiring Charlotte, North Carolina-based Internetwork Engineering…

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‘We want to continue making technology easier and more secure for organizations,’ says JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava. ‘Our focus will be on enabling passwordless access, secure use of AI and ensuring people can work seamlessly from anywhere.’ After seeing significant growth in the past year and relaunching its partner program, JumpCloud is focusing on MSPs…

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With AI the name of the game this year at Zoomtopia 2024, here are the major product announcements and enhancements revealed at the event that should be on partners’ radars. Artificial intelligence was on full display this year at Zoom Video Communications’ Zoomtopia 2024. The videoconferencing giant, led by CEO Eric Yuan, unveiled the next…

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‘Think about a Zoom meeting and identifying the people and making sure that the system understands when the last conversation we had was. All those things can come into play by this integration. We’re making sure that our partners can build on top of the Now Assist platform, and we feel this integration makes both…

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AWS AI Vice President Matt Wood, who helped launched everything from Lambda and SageMaker to DeepRacer and EMR, is leaving Amazon after 15 years. Here’s what you need to know. Longtime Amazon Web Services AI innovator and frequent on-stage keynote speaker Matt Wood is leaving the cloud computing giant. “After 15 incredible years, it’s time…

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The new Cloudera AI Inference Service leverages Nvidia NIM microservices to boost the development of large-scale AI models that can tap into the huge volumes of data stored on the Cloudera Data Platform. Data platform provider Cloudera is taking a deeper dive into AI with a new service, powered by Nvidia’s NIM microservices, for deploying…

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TD Synnex, ConnectWise, Critical Start, ThoughtSpot, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Capgemini were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in September 2024. New CEOs at TD Synnex, ConnectWise, ThoughtSpot and Critical Start were among the biggest executive moves in September. Taking those top spots, respectively, were Patrick Zammit, previously with Avnet; Manny Rivelo,…

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