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‘Carahsoft is fully cooperating on this matter,’ a spokesperson says. Carahsoft confirmed to CRN that representatives from the United States Department of Justice came to the solution provider giant’s office Tuesday as part of an investigation into a separate company. In an email, a spokesperson with the government-focused IT company–No. 16 on CRN’s 2024 Solution…

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‘We’re going to help customers unleash the power of AI with their data, helping overcome the challenges of AI and data gaps, and be able to do that without creating a net-new data silo. So we’ll be going much deeper on the AI front,’ says Sandeep Singh, NetApp’s senior vice president and general manager for…

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‘Proprietary unstructured data is powerful fuel our customers can use for AI agents,’ says Salesforce executive Rahul Auradkar. Customer relationship management software vendor Salesforce plans to buy unstructured data management provider Zoomin to help power its artificial intelligence agent offerings and AI agent builder Agentforce. San Francisco-based Salesforce plans to close the acquisition in its…

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‘Without data, the systems are useless. We see this much like what cloud was in the early eras, where cloud was a distinct silo, the on-premises world was a distinct silo, and you needed to bridge the two,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian. At The Intersection Of Data And Intelligence While businesses have been digitizing…

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Accenture, Jade Global, Google and Vonage are among the coolest exhibitors from Salesforce Dreamforce 2024. Five solution providers and five vendors are among the hottest companies to exhibit at Salesforce Dreamforce 2024. Accenture and Jade Global are among the solution providers to stand out for their work with the San Francisco-based cloud software vendor and…

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For the week ending Sept. 20, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including NWN Carousel, Veeam, Confluent, ClearScale and Salesforce. The Week Ending Sept. 20 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is NWN Carousel for a strategic acquisition that expands its presence within the federal…

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‘Many customers are reporting the OpenAI models are not delivering high levels of accuracy,’ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said. Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff railed against copilot artificial intelligence products offered by Microsoft and other vendors, touting his company’s agentic approach as one that delivers better accuracy while maintaining the importance of the vendor’s…

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Confluent also discloses investments in two regional systems integration partners who are developing leading-edge data integration and migration expertise and practices. Data streaming tech developer Confluent has launched an OEM channel program to recruit managed service providers, cloud service providers and independent software vendors to build the Confluent platform within their software and service offerings.…

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“We’re going to do ourselves a disservice … as an industry if we push people too fast into AI and we don’t give real solutions,” Insight SVP Stephen Moss tells CRN. Artificial intelligence as a service. Managed AI. AI assurance. Solution providers are at work sorting through new practices and new ways to not only…

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“We just don’t see copilot as that key step for our future,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says. A partner network for Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial intelligence agent builder tool. Updates to the Data Cloud unified data offering. And deeper partnerships with the likes of IBM and Google Cloud. These are among the biggest announcements to come…

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