Tag: Artificial Intelligence
“Our acquisition of Spot is the next step in Flexera’s strategic plan to provide organizations with a full panorama of their technology spend and risk across the entire IT ecosystem,” said Flexera CEO Jim Ryan. After investing millions in elevating its partner program and previously buying Snow Software, Flexera is now acquiring NetApp’s Spot FinOps…
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Advizex CEO and longtime IT executive C.R. Howdyshell breaks down his company’s five biggest bets in 2025 that will drive sales and customer momentum—from Nvidia and HPE-Juniper to AI and XaaS. Advizex’s fearless leader, C.R. Howdyshell, has huge plans in store for 2025 with big investment bets on HPE’s merger with Juniper Networks, driving Everything…
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Broadcom’s new channel chief, Brian Moats, has big plans in store for the Broadcom and VMware channel community including shifting professional services from Broadcom-led engagements to partner-delivered services. Here are five big things to know about Moats and his goals in 2025. Broadcom and VMware partners have a new channel chief in Broadcom’s former global…
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‘It’s an especially exciting time at Google Cloud as organizations are increasingly looking to leverage the transformative power of GenAI to deliver remarkable outcomes,’ said Google Cloud’s new COO Francis deSouza today. Google Cloud has hired longtime top tech executive Francis deSouza as its new chief operating officer. “It’s an especially exciting time at Google…
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AWS is continuing to pour tens-of-billions of dollars into new data center infrastructure across America by announcing its plan today to invest $11 billion in Georgia to drive cloud and AI innovation in the U.S. Amazon Web Services is investing a whopping $11 billion in new data center infrastructure in Georgia to boost its cloud…
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Heartland Business Systems, CDW, Leidos, SAP, SAS and Vertex are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Heartland Business Systems, CDW and Leidos are among the solution providers to list open positions while SAP, SAS and Vertex are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. CRN has…
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Google is putting its Gemini AI models inside TVs as well as Android and Pixel smartwatches. Here’s what it means for Google partners. Google’s flagship artificial intelligence model Gemini is being integrated into new Google devices including Google TVs and potentially replacing Google Assistant on Android and Pixel smartwatches. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas…
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One of Microsoft’s top silicon engineering executives—who helped launch its new Azure Cobalt processors and Azure Maia AI accelerators—has joined rival Google Cloud to lead its silicon chip technology innovation. Microsoft’s former vice president of silicon manufacturing and engineering, Rehan Sheikh, has left to join rival Google Cloud to become one of the company’s leading…
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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into IBM’s $6.4 billion acquisition of Hashicorp. The merger was supposed to close in 2024. IBM’s blockbuster $6.4 billion acquisition of Terraform creator and cloud provider HashiCorp has been temporarily halted by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, which will now officially review the deal…
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World Wide Technology is set to acquire fellow IT channel powerhouse Softchoice for $1.25 billion within the next several months in a move to enhance WWT’s AI, cloud and software business across North America. World Wide Technology is planning to make arguably what would be the biggest acquisition in its long history with the purchase…
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