Tag: Artificial Intelligence
‘Price is a factor, but it’s really more like taking the whole package, which is the pricing, the known stagnation, the changes to support all of that, and sliding that across the table to your customer with whom you might have taken decades to develop trust,’ Nutanix’s Dave Gwyn tells CRN. The reverberations that started…
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Managing increasingly distributed IT systems is a major challenge for IT managers and MSPs. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are four data center technology startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should be aware of. Center Of Attention Managing IT hardware and software systems and services is an increasingly…
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Gartner assesses the eight top cloud platform service providers—accounting for 97 percent of the global cloud services market—which includes AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, Huawei and Tencent. The top eight cloud platform service providers own 97 percent share of the global market, with AI and generative AI technologies becoming key to winning customers. These…
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Partners should see ‘a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,’ especially with continued frustrations over price changes at rival VMware, said Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat’s senior director of hybrid cloud platforms. Updates to Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, Edge Device and Developer Hub should offer partners more ways to do business with customers, executives with the…
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‘So we have embarked on this thing that effectively created an edge cloud,’ Dell’s senior vice president of edge computing, strategy, and execution, Gil Shneorson, tells CRN. ‘And it’s still the only edge operations software that does all of those things combined. There’s nothing like that out there.’ Edge applications in retail or factory environments…
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‘MinIO embraced the S3 API as the standard. And today, MinIO’s adoption is larger than Amazon S3’s. Customers are in the cloud, across the cloud, in private clouds, all the way to edge. Our user application ecosystem is much larger than Amazon’s. We are the single largest player. We made the S3 API an industry…
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‘AI holds significant potential, but the technology itself isn’t useful unless it’s applied to the right use case in business,’ says Sanjib Sahoo, EVP and chief digital officer at Ingram Micro. As AI makes it way deeper into business operations, its potential to transform business operations remains vast. However, Ingram Micro’s Sanjib Sahoo said the…
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‘We wanted to make sure that it’s very clear to our partners that we’re making clear bets with them to help them deliver on customer expectations,’ says Microsoft Chief Partner Officer Nicole Dezen. A “small percentage” of Microsoft direct market cloud Enterprise Agreements that won’t be eligible for renewal under the tech giant’s EA framework––potentially…
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ATSG, Success Computer Consulting, Zoom, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in October 2024. New CEOs of ATSG and Success Computer Consulting and a new CFO at Zoom were among the biggest executive moves in October. Taking those top spots, respectively, were Russell Reeder, formerly with…
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In our annual Stellar Startups special report, CRN shines a spotlight on some of the most exciting channel-focused startup vendors with leading-edge technologies that are creating new opportunities for solution providers. The pace of IT industry innovation, always moving at a brisk clip, has accelerated to a full-on sprint over the last two years with…
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