Tag: Artificial Intelligence

‘Learning isn’t a luxury, it’s essential to operations,’ says Keith Craig, head of learning development at Empath. ‘We’re focused on delivering learning experiences that are not just relevant but directly applicable to the real-world challenges MSPs face.’ Empath, a training and education platform for MSPs, is gearing up for a busy 2025 with plans to…

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CRN staff compiled the top partner-friendly products that launched or were significantly enhanced over the past year and then turned to solution providers to choose this year’s winners. And The Trophies Go To… The CRN 2024 Products of the Year awards honor the leading partner-friendly IT products as selected by the solution providers that develop…

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AWS CEO Matt Garman speaks to CRN about why he believes solution providers are placing their cloud and AI bets on AWS versus rivals Microsoft and Google Cloud. CEO Matt Garman believes Amazon Web Services is winning channel partner mindshare via its cybersecurity posture, generative AI strategy and the opportunity to reach more customers globally…

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‘Increasingly, enterprises see the disruptive nature and the innovation opportunities with GenAI, resulting in growing GenAI experimentation and proof of concepts. Underpinning our success is broad enterprise coverage, professional services, engineering leadership, and large-scale system design, all done with incredible speed and time to market. These highly specialized workloads and deployments require high value engineering…

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‘We specifically targeted products that are tailored for the SMB market,’ says Michael Slater, head of sales, Microsoft and cybersecurity for Sherweb. In a strategic move to enhance its offerings and better support MSPs, Sherweb recently announced the addition of multiple new vendors to its marketplace. The move is aimed at expanding the company’s portfolio,…

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Diagrid, Traefik Labs, NetApp and Red Hat are among the companies that made big waves at the KubeCon event. A conversation API for improving artificial intelligence application development. An API Sandbox-as-a-Service. And a model registry capability in OpenShift AI 2.15. These offerings from Diagrid, Traefik Labs and Red Hat, respectively, are among the biggest open-source…

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CRN speaks with channel partners regarding Google Cloud’s move to offer only one consistent discount to partners reselling GCP to enterprise customers. Google Cloud is set to change its discount structure for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resale by offering only one consistent discount when a channel partner resells GCP to large enterprises or in multimillion-dollar…

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Google Cloud’s global partner program leader, Colleen Kapase, explains Google’s new discount model for partners reselling Google Cloud Platform to enterprises as well as a new “nine-figure” partner fund slated for 2025. Google Cloud is changing its discount model for partners reselling the Google Cloud Platform in large enterprise deals, which in some cases means…

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Top Google partner 66degrees takes a deep dive with CRN around how the solution provider’s AI sales spiked 325 percent in 2024. ‘If you and I are in a brainstorming session, we’re going to come up with 10 good ideas. But if you can have a 5,000-person company come up with ideas, your use cases…

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For the week ending Nov. 22, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Wiz, Google Cloud, Descope, Nvidia, DXC and ServiceNow. The Week Ending Nov. 22 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is fast-growing cloud security provider Wiz for a strategic acquisition around cloud remediation…

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