Tag: Cloud Channel Programs
‘The growth we’re seeing across [Google] Cloud is underpinned by the benefit AI provides for our customers,’ Ruth Porat, president, chief investment officer and CFO, said during Google parent Alphabet’s first-quarter 2024 earnings call Thursday. Google parent Alphabet credited its strong first fiscal quarter of the year to solid Google Search and Google Cloud revenue.…
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AI, Azure and security are just some of the biggest topics expected to come up Thursday on the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings call. Updates on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and Copilot offerings. Growth in the cloud and Azure business. And the tech giant’s position in the ever-competitive security market. These are some of the biggest…
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‘You can search incentives by product. You can search for it by country. The partners are absolutely loving that we’re showing how we can make their businesses more transparent, more readily to understand our profitability, by letting them use AI,’ Colleen Kapase, vice president of channels and partner programs at Google Cloud, tells CRN. Google…
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Part 4 of CRN’s 2024 Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data management and integration tools space. Managerial Perogative By 2025 the total amount of digital data generated, gathered, copied and consumed globally is expected to be in the range of 175 to 180 zettabytes.…
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Chanda Wong, a senior product marketing manager for Microsoft 365 for SMBs, told partners on a call last week that they have until Aug. 1 to sell the suites with Teams to a customer as long as the partner quoted the customer before Microsoft announced the end of Teams suites on April 1. Microsoft solution…
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‘This isn’t a feature that will allow partners to steal other customers,’ Microsoft program manager Brent Serbus said on a call Wednesday. A Microsoft partner program manager says the tech giant’s upcoming partner-to-partner new commerce experience license transfer policy for the Cloud Solution Provider program is not designed to encourage solution providers to poach customers…
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‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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‘I am enthusiastic about the future of our industry, the game-changing emerging technologies being brought to market, and most importantly, our partner ecosystem, which will continue to play a significant role in bringing these innovations to life for our customers,’ said Cook, Dell’s senior vice president, global partner marketing, in a post. Dell Technologies channel…
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The expanded Accelerate with Confluent initiative offers resources and expertise to help systems integrators develop repeatable services and solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and help customers realize value more quickly. Data streaming technology developer Confluent has launched a revamped partner program to help systems integrators better develop and deliver solutions based on the…
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“This change was made based on partner feedback and will provide greater flexibility, creating a smoother experience for both partners and customers,” according to Microsoft documents. This quarter, Microsoft plans to allow solution providers in its Cloud Solution Provider program to transfer end customer new commerce experience subscriptions from one partner to another midterm, eliminating…
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