Tag: AI
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins weighed in on what the fully renovated Cisco 360 partner program means for partners, who tell CRN that the “devil will be in the details.” Cisco 360, revealed this week at Cisco Partner Summit 2024, marks the biggest overhaul to the partner program in the company’s history and partners are eager…
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“The addition of Altair’s capabilities in simulation, high performance computing, data science, and artificial intelligence together with Siemens Xcelerator will create the world’s most complete AI-powered design and simulation portfolio,” said Roland Busch, President and CEO of Siemens AG. Software star Altair is being acquired by Siemens for a whopping $10.6 billion which Siemens says…
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The Microsoft AI business overall is on track to become the ‘fastest business in our history’ to reach a $10 billion annual revenue run rate, CEO Satya Nadella said during the tech giant’s quarterly call Wednesday. Microsoft is continuing to generate rapid growth with its portfolio of AI offerings with Copilot seeing strong adoption and…
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Longtime Dell Technologies executive and general manager of Dell’s federal business, Jim Kelly, has jumped ship to lead Google’s public sector business. Dell Technologies’ general manager and senior vice president of the company’s federal business, Jim Kelly, has departed the infrastructure giant to help lead Google’s public sector business. “Today marks the beginning of my…
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CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly updated over the last year. Now it’s up to solution providers to choose the winners. Application Performance and Observability As more applications run in hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments, maintaining application performance has becoming a more complex task. Application performance management and observability tools…
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AMD CEO Lisa Su says the $500 million upgrade in the company’s Instinct GPU 2024 sales forecast was based on the completion of ‘some important customer milestones’ such as meeting reliability requirements in data centers and optimizing the chips on certain AI workloads. AMD said it now expects to make more than $5 billion from…
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Cisco 360 represents a total revamp of the 30-year-old partner program and a significant departure in the way that Cisco partners earn today. Here’s what partners should know. Unveiled at Cisco Partner Summit 2024, the all-new Cisco 360 Partner Program is a total refresh of the tech giant’s nearly 30-year-old program. Unlike the programs of…
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“This is a piece of the puzzle that is necessary for AI that we haven’t had,” said Blue Mantis Chief Revenue Officer Terry Richardson. “You can’t be successful with AI if you don’t have a good grip on your data. SME brings a much needed and desired capability around data analytics and business insights.” Blue…
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The new Cisco 360 Partner Program was designed with value in mind, not transactions, to better align with Cisco’s larger goals to capture more mindshare in security, AI, software and services, Cisco’s Rodney Clark told CRN exclusively. The newly revealed Cisco 360 partner program will go live in February 2026 to give the tech giant’s…
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‘The foundation of our program was hardware and transaction. That’s who we were as a company at the time and that served us well … but what it rewarded was a partner who transacts, and the way that we do business today is quite different. It’s the first material shift in how we evaluate partners…
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