Tag: AI
Salesforce’s biggest acquisition was the $28 billion purchase of Slack in 2021. Salesforce reportedly wants to buy artificial intelligence-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica, according to multiple news outlets, not long after its frequent acquisitions put Salesforce in the crosshairs of activist investors. Should Salesforce – a San Francisco-based customer relationship management software vendor –…
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In an interview with CRN, Intel’s Jason Kimrey says the Intel Partner Alliance Partner of the Year Awards recognize those are who not only driving revenue growth but who are also building innovative solutions and business models on top of embracing the chipmaker’s AI strategy. Intel has announced its top 27 partners in the Americas…
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‘The combined power of the BMC Helix platform and Netreo solutions provides IT Operations, DevOps practitioners, developers, and network teams with comprehensive insights spanning applications, infrastructure, and networks, helping them increase the overall reliability and performance,’ wrote Margaret Lee, BMC’s senior vice president and general manager of digital service and operations management, in a blog…
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Tan says Broadcom expects double-digit revenue gains from its VMware Cloud Foundation as it is focused on providing resources, support and upselling for VMware’s ‘largest 2,000 strategic customers.’ Broadcom CEO Hock Tan expects his company’s VMware business to grow double-digits for the rest of the year as Broadcom’s sales teams work on upselling the 2,000…
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“As time goes on, you’re going to see the generative AI really drag not just compute systems, but the traditional core servers as well as traditional storage, because everything is going to be optimized for AI,” Dell ISG president Arthur Lewis told Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this week. Dell ISG President Arthur…
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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…
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Accenture’s Suzanne Randall, TICOM’s Madonna Peltier-Yawakie and IBM’s Brendan Kinkade share stories from their tech careers and advocacy for indigenous peoples. Suzanne Randall wrote the business case 16 years ago that started Accenture’s Native American Employee Resource Group. Madonna Peltier-Yawakie and her husband help tribal entities secure funding for broadband network designs, project implementation and…
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‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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Proofpoint, Slack, Tanium, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks, Nvidia and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires during November 2023. New CEOs of Proofpoint and Slack. A new channel chief at Tanium. And a new chief marketing officer for Cisco subsidiary AppDynamics. Sumit Dhawan, formerly of VMware; Denise Holland Dresser, formerly with Slack…
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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…
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