Tag: AI
With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to potential customers. Expanding on its recent initiatives to work with the channel, Confluent today launched the Build with Confluent program through which the company is providing technical…
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‘This new round puts us in a unique position to push the frontier of AI and bring state-of-the-art technology to everyone’s hands,’ says Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch. Microsoft-backed startup Mistral AI has raised $643 million in a new funding round, which increased the company’s valuation to $6 billion. Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of…
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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…
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‘We have developed this marketplace with one goal in mind, your success,’ says Libby McIlhany, chief product officer for Pax8. ‘We’re giving you the keys to the kingdom of easy-to-use tools and AI insights designed to save you time and accelerate the growth of your business.’ Pax8 has unveiled the next generation of its revamped…
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‘I’m very proud [that we took] leading-edge technology and brought it to the forefront of the MSPs so that they had something that actually helped them,’ Tim Coach tells CRN in an exclusive interview. Channel chief Tim Coach has left Pia as of Monday, telling CRN in an exclusive interview he is “proud of the…
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Gary Steele, who serves as Splunk general manager in addition to his Cisco post, says in an interview with CRN that a major focus for him is not allowing the nitty-gritty of the ongoing Cisco-Splunk integration to disrupt Splunk’s track record of innovation. In mid-March Cisco Systems completed its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in…
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‘Belcan’s deep engineering capabilities and domain expertise across the aerospace and defense market will be complemented by Cognizant’s scale and own multidecade digital engineering expertise, providing Belcan’s blue-chip client roster access to our advanced AI, cloud and data technologies,’ says Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar. Solution provider powerhouse Cognizant is acquiring engineering services specialist Belcan for…
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After privacy and security experts voiced concerns about Recall – an exclusive, AI-driven search feature in Microsoft’s upcoming Copilot+ PCs – the Windows giant says it will turn off the feature by default, require Windows Hello authentication to use it and add ‘additional layers of data protection.’ Microsoft said it’s improving privacy and security safeguards…
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‘I’ve been trying to build a great company and whenever [a sale happens], we’re ready to go,’ ConnectWise CEO Jason Magee says. A hyperfocus on AI, hitting a billion dollars in revenue, the possibility of being sold and still watching out for the competition gives ConnectWise CEO Jason Magee a lot of balls to juggle…
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‘If you listen to really smart people around the globe, they’ll tell you that [AI] is one of those technologies that is actually going to live up to the hype. And so the $1 billion global AI investment fund we just announced this week, that’s just the start for us, frankly,’ Cisco Executive Vice President…
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