Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Here’s where nine solution provider top executives see as the biggest generative AI opportunities in the channel in 2025. Channel partners are bullish about the generative AI opportunities next year as customers still need more guidance around their artificial intelligence strategy and future. From AI advisory services to developing new GenAI offerings for customers, channel…
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‘Public enemy number one and where [HPE] is trying to take over business is from Cisco. Even still, they have a long way to go and they are a ways behind Cisco,’ one partner tells CRN after the two CEOs took jabs at each other’s networking strategies this week at CRN parent The Channel Company’s…
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“[The chatbot will] help our partners have this integrated experience where they can go and get their questions answered, whether it’s go-to-market resources or … ‘I’m at this program level, I want to move to this next program level. What’s left for me to do to get there?’” Colleen Kapase, vice president of channels and…
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‘This is making it easier for partners to see, if you just do this one thing, here’s where you’re eligible to earn more,’ Google VP Colleen Kapase says. Google Cloud has introduced a new “earnings hub” platform that helps partners track earned and potential incentives, with plans for Workspace and Security Operations incentives tracking “in…
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‘They have vulnerabilities that have been announced with security notices and patches that have been released, but customers haven’t updated. And the adversaries around the world are taking advantage of it—whether it’s critical infrastructure or the carrier networks or whatever,’ says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco Systems Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins says there is…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins talks about having a leg-up over HPE-Juniper, cross-selling Splunk opportunities, Cisco’s bullish AI strategy and his thoughts on the U.S. economy in 2025 with the upcoming presidential election. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins is confident that his company’s longtime networking leadership will continue regardless of new competition from HPE with its pending…
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‘We’ve seen no shortage of consolidation in the MSP market,’ says Mike Cromwell, managing partner, sales and marketing for Netrio. ‘What excites us is the opportunity to do this right, to grow smartly, enhance our customer experience and take advantage of the market’s growing demand for MSP services.’ Texas-based MSP Netrio has merged with Success…
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Even after the IPO, Platinum Equity will still control Ingram Micro with a stake of about 90 percent, according to regulatory filings. Ingram Micro has set the terms for its initial public offering, targeting a valuation north of $5 billion with prices expected to be $20 to $23 a share. The Irvine, Calif.-based IT distributor…
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HPE CEO Antonio Neri talks about HPE-Juniper putting the heat on Cisco, employees coexisting with AI, what Juniper partners should be doing today, and the advice John Chambers is giving him. HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri is bullish about his company’s upcoming $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, a move that will put the…
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“We do delivery through our partners,” Google Public Sector’s Troy Bertram tells CRN. The public sector holds a “significant opportunity” for Google partners, with a variety of organizations from research firms to state agencies to military branches investing in artificial intelligence and the cloud to improve operations. Troy Bertram, Google Public Sector’s executive managing director…
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