Tag: Artificial Intelligence
“Combining our high-performance Instinct AI accelerator, EPYC CPU, and networking product portfolios with ZT Systems’ industry-leading data center systems expertise will enable AMD to deliver end-to-end data center AI infrastructure at scale with our ecosystem of OEM and ODM partners,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su. Chipmaker superstar AMD is acquiring server supplier and cloud computing…
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For the week ending Aug. 16, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, Nutanix, Broadcom, ScanSource and ClearScale. The Week Ending Aug. 16 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Hewlett Packard Enterprise for a strategic acquisition that will boost…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins cited ‘several $100 million-plus transactions in the quarter.’ Deep cuts at Cisco Systems appear aimed at readying the 40-year-old networking giant for increased customer demand to modernize technology for improved security and artificial intelligence growth – areas where Cisco partners can see business gains in the new fiscal year. These are…
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‘You need to strengthen your client relationships, your team collaboration and your service consistency. That’s going to increase your efficiency, your operational maturity and, ultimately, your sales, your revenue and your profitability,’ says Ray Mann, channel development manager at ScalePad. Ray Mann, channel development manager at ScalePad, told an audience of MSPs at XChange August…
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‘There is a certain amount of cloud repatriation that is happening, and that’s happening purely from a cost perspective,’ Cognizant’s Naveen Sharma tells CRN in an interview. Naveen Sharma compares the classic public cloud vendor business model to buying wine. The seller loves for a customer to try a glass, and then maybe drink another,…
Read More‘The pace of change is relentless,’ says Pax8 CEO Scott Chasin. ‘We’re on the cusp of AI reaching human-level intelligence and beyond.’ AI tools are evolving at a rapid pace, with new capabilities coming out every four to six months, and will completely change how IT businesses operate over the next 10 years. “The genie…
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‘Now more clearly than ever, we are seeing that public AI alone cannot address the increasing needs of either individuals or enterprises,’ Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang said in announcing first quarter earnings on Thursday. ‘Hybrid AI, which is formed by personal AI, enterprise AI, together with public AI, is indeed the way forward.’ Lenovo said…
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ClearScale CEO Jimmy Chui explains why price-concerned VMware customers need to migrate to AWS, his company’s new AI-powered offerings to help them, and why businesses need to ‘really get off all their licensed software.’ ClearScale is launching an AI-powered attack seeking to migrate existing VMware customers worried about price increases over to the AWS cloud.…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says his team is “shifting hundreds of millions of dollars into AI,” including AI networking for cloud, AI infrastructure, silicon and cybersecurity. Cisco Systems crossed $1 billion to date in AI orders with webscale customers and predicts another $1 billion in AI product orders this fiscal year. On the San Jose,…
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Cisco will spend between $700 million and $800 million in the first quarter of its 2025 fiscal year. Cisco Systems confirmed massive layoffs Wednesday with plans to cut about 7 percent of its global workforce, which should cost up to $1 billion. The San Jose, Calif.-based networking giant said in a regulatory filing that the…
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