Tag: Artificial Intelligence

With AI the name of the game this year at Zoomtopia 2024, here are the major product announcements and enhancements revealed at the event that should be on partners’ radars. Artificial intelligence was on full display this year at Zoom Video Communications’ Zoomtopia 2024. The videoconferencing giant, led by CEO Eric Yuan, unveiled the next…

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‘Think about a Zoom meeting and identifying the people and making sure that the system understands when the last conversation we had was. All those things can come into play by this integration. We’re making sure that our partners can build on top of the Now Assist platform, and we feel this integration makes both…

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AWS AI Vice President Matt Wood, who helped launched everything from Lambda and SageMaker to DeepRacer and EMR, is leaving Amazon after 15 years. Here’s what you need to know. Longtime Amazon Web Services AI innovator and frequent on-stage keynote speaker Matt Wood is leaving the cloud computing giant. “After 15 incredible years, it’s time…

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The new Cloudera AI Inference Service leverages Nvidia NIM microservices to boost the development of large-scale AI models that can tap into the huge volumes of data stored on the Cloudera Data Platform. Data platform provider Cloudera is taking a deeper dive into AI with a new service, powered by Nvidia’s NIM microservices, for deploying…

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TD Synnex, ConnectWise, Critical Start, ThoughtSpot, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Capgemini were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in September 2024. New CEOs at TD Synnex, ConnectWise, ThoughtSpot and Critical Start were among the biggest executive moves in September. Taking those top spots, respectively, were Patrick Zammit, previously with Avnet; Manny Rivelo,…

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Holding its TechEd Virtual event this week, the software giant is also significantly expanding its SAP Build development tools offerings and debuting new Knowledge Graph software for Joule to provide data context for AI tasks. Software giant SAP is expanding the capabilities of its Joule generative AI copilot, adding collaborative AI agents that the company…

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Pilar Schenk, a former Dell EMC, McAfee and Cisco top sales and operations veteran, is now Amazon Web Servies’ new vice president of global sales. Here’s what her roles were at her former companies. One of Cisco’s key COOs, Pilar Schenk, has left the networking giant to join AWS as its new vice president of…

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“ I’m not fighting for mindshare with partners. I have the mindshare, it’s just: ‘What am I going to do with it?’ That’s the really cool part,” Zoom’s new head of global channels GTM Nick Tidd, formerly HP Poly’s global channel chief, told CRN. Videoconferencing giant Zoom Video Communications is making good on its commitment…

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World Wide Technology is now an ‘AI-first company,’ says CEO Jim Kavanaugh, as WWT creates homegrown GenAI technology, builds state-of-the-art AI labs and crafts a bold go-to-market strategy aimed at accelerating customer AI adoption. World Wide Technology is building its own innovative generative AI applications, including a ChatGPT-like offering, as part of WWT’s master plan…

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‘I think the community he’s built. I think the ways he’s brought ConnectWise together, he’s been at the forefront of that, I think that will be a significant part of his legacy,’ says Peter Mebly, president of New Charter Technologies one of ConnectWise largest MSP customers. ConnectWise’s new CEO Manny Rivelo has some big shoes…

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