Tag: Cloud Platforms
‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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K3 Technology is rapidly evolving with the adoption of AI and is doing ‘almost everything’ differently than two years ago, Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO of K3, tells CRN. K3 Technology has acquired Dallas-based MSP OG2 Network Services, creating more opportunities for it to expand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO…
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Google reportedly has walked away from a potentially massive deal to buy CRM provider HubSpot, a merger that would have helped Google Cloud. Google reportedly has abandoned its plans to acquire CRM specialist HubSpot, axing a potential deal that would have been worth billions and aided Google Cloud. HubSpot generated over $2 billion in revenue…
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‘The timing was right because the IPO market has obviously been slower for a lot of tech companies. It also helps us build some brand cachet when companies like Vista, KKR, and TCV are backing us as a growth-stage company. Sometimes customers or channel partners want to know that there’s people behind you. And that…
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‘Microsoft’s playbook of paying off complainants rather than addressing the substance of their complaint hurts businesses and shouldn’t fool anyone,’ said Google Cloud top executive Amit Zavery, following the results of a European antitrust complaint ruling today. Google Cloud is slamming rival Microsoft after the company secured a multimillion-dollar deal to settle a European antitrust…
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‘This workforce reduction is aimed at further driving operational efficiency and customer centricity,’ according to a UiPath regulatory filing. About a month after changing CEOs, business automation platform provider UiPath revealed plans to cut 10 percent of its employee base – about 4,200 employees. The New York-based vendor said in a regulatory filing that most…
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‘[Broadcom’s] been an incredibly successful company. They have a strategy and approach that they take. But I can tell you, it’s not sitting well with the majority of the customers—a very large majority. Customers are looking for alternatives,’ says WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh. Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of the $20 billion tech powerhouse World Wide Technology,…
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AWS is investing cloud credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars for AI startups as Google, Amazon and Microsoft all battle to win over the hottest startups in the world as customers. Amazon Web Services is putting the full-court press on Microsoft and Google by giving hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cloud credits…
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Based on user posts to Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn, the cuts have hit a variety of managers, engineers and other job titles in Microsoft. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has started with a round of layoffs and some changes in its partner program, especially around requirements for specializations. Layoffs aren’t unusual for Microsoft this time of…
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CRN breaks down the 10 coolest cloud computing startup companies that are making waves in 2024 around AI, Kubernetes, multi-cloud networking and other key cloud markets. The need for new and improved cloud computing solutions is being met head-on by startups in 2024 that are focusing on infrastructure optimization, artificial intelligence and cloud management. From…
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