Tag: Application and Platform Security

‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…

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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…

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Based on user posts to Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn, the cuts have hit a variety of managers, engineers and other job titles in Microsoft. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has started with a round of layoffs and some changes in its partner program, especially around requirements for specializations. Layoffs aren’t unusual for Microsoft this time of…

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Auvik CEO Doug Murray tells CRN he is aiming to put more muscle behind sales, channel marketing and a go-to-market strategy to grow the channel business — and making it one of the fastest-growing parts of the company is ‘top of mind.’ In the last year, Auvik has seen 45 percent year-over-year growth, which CEO…

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Nvidia, Silverfort and Pax8 are among the ISVs to receive Microsoft Partner of the Year awards this year. A chip making giant. An identity protection upstart. And a disruptor to IT distribution. Nvidia, Silverfort and Pax8 are among the independent software vendors (ISVs) to receive Microsoft Partner of the Year awards this year in a…

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WinWire, Valorem Reply, PwC, Accenture and EY were among the solution providers named as a 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year. A transformed legal eDiscovery tool. An OpenAI sentiment analysis application for emergency preparedness. And an app built in 90 days that solved a complex SAP use case. These projects by WinWire Technologies, Valorem Reply…

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BettrData, Baseten and StepSecurity are among the 10 hottest DevOps startup companies this year so far. A data operations workflow automation platform. An artificial intelligence model management application programming interface. And a way to gain more security around continuous integration, continuous deployment pipelines. BettrData, Baseten and StepSecurity are among the vendors to make CRN’s 10…

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Solution providers ‘are building large business opportunities and businesses because of the demand that we see for this technology from lots of companies in different parts of the world,’ says Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. Google Cloud has made a series of upgrades to its Gemini generative artificial intelligence offering, including moving Gemini 1.5 Flash…

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Cyera, Glean and xAI are among the recently founded AI companies capturing major investor attention. A data security platform powered by artificial intelligence, a provider of AI agents and assistants founded on company data, and Elon Musk’s mysterious AI company are among the most well-funded startups so far in 2024. Cyera, Glean and xAI are…

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By linking its AI monitoring tools – part of the New Relic Observability Platform – with Nvidia NIM, organizations can gain visibility into the “black box” operations of an AI application stack and improve AI operational performance and ROI. New Relic has integrated its observability software with Nvidia’s NIM inference microservices, making it possible to…

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