Tag: Cloud Platforms

Solution provider silver and gold benefits “remain in effect for one year after your last purchase or renewal, but they will not undergo the January 2025 update,” Microsoft said. Microsoft revealed that it plans to no longer sell its Action Pack, Learning Action Pack or legacy silver and gold benefits starting Jan. 22 – and…

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Here’s the global cloud market share results and six world leaders for Q2 2024, which include AWS, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce, according to new market data. Global cloud market share for the three cloud giants—Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS—shifted during the second quarter of 2024 as enterprise cloud spending reached a new…

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From among more than 320 applicants, CRN staff evaluated and selected products spanning the IT industry – including AI and AI infrastructure, cloud management, data analytics, networking, security and storage categories – that offer ground-breaking functionality and new opportunities for partners. Tech Innovators 2024 The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in…

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HPE’s blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks has cleared two major hurdles in Europe that paves the way for the merger to be finalized. Hewlett Packard Enterprises’s blockbuster $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is nearing the finish line after passing key approvals in Europe. In June, the U.K. antitrust watchdog Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)…

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This ‘separates us a little bit also from the competition,’ Shawn Ahmed, CloudBees’ chief product officer, tells CRN in an interview. Cloud-native developer security operations platform provider CloudBees is boosting its quality assurance and generative artificial intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Launchable – potentially bringing more QA work to its channel partners. As part…

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“This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, regarding his decision to leave for Anthropic. John Schulman, OpenAI co-founder and a key leader in the creation of ChatGPT,…

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Consultancy specialist Thoughtworks is being taken private for $1.7 billion, as its new restructuring plan now will “impact” hundreds of employees. Top Amazon Web Services and Google partner Thoughtworks is being taken private by Apax Partners in a deal worth $1.75 billion as the IT consultancy also unveiled a new plan that will impact hundreds…

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Here’s a head-to-head comparison of AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud’s recent financial earnings results for second-quarter 2024, including revenue, sales growth, cloud market share and operating income. The results are in for the three largest cloud computing companies on the planet with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud each recently reporting their financial…

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Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate. Overachievers These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate both ongoing economic uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape as artificial…

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This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Google will hire the co-founders and members of the research team for Character.AI in exchange for an undisclosed…

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