Tag: Cloud Platforms
“Customer data and metadata are the new gold for these enterprises,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Wednesday. Salesforce executives played up growth in the vendor’s artificial intelligence offerings while acknowledging continued “measured” customer buying patterns including longer sales cycles and smaller during the fiscal 2025 first quarter. Marc Benioff, CEO and co-founder of the San…
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Fresh off its $1.1 billion funding round this month, cloud AI startup CoreWeave is reportedly looking to hit the public market by the first half of 2025. Here’s what you need to know. CoreWeave, the cloud AI startup heavily backed by Nvidia and private equity firms, is reportedly seeking to become a public company in…
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Customer AI spending, Data Cloud traction and MuleSoft progress are expected to come up. A pulse on customer spending on artificial intelligence. Traction in Data Cloud and Einstein 1. And continuing progress in MuleSoft. These are some of the major topics expected to come up Wednesday during Salesforce’s earnings call for its first fiscal quarter,…
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CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list ranks the top VARs, systems integrators, service providers and IT consultants with operations in North America by revenue. Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s list. The Top 25 In March, Cognizant launched its Advanced AI Lab in San Francisco, focused on developing core AI research and…
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Channel Chief Kate Woodley takes a deep dive with CRN on IBM’s partner strategy, its new MSP program and why IBM is pushing the channel to become Palo Alto Networks partners following the sale of QRadar. Kate Woolley, IBM’s global channel chief, sat down with CRN at IBM Think 2024 to discuss the company’s upcoming…
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HPE will sell 30 percent of its stake in China-based H3C for $2.1 billion, with the option of selling its remaining 19 percent share, HPE said in a regulatory filing today. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will sell 30 percent of its shares of H3C to Chinese IT provider Unisplendour for approximately $2.1 billion, HPE said in…
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‘Security is a team sport,’ Microsoft CVP Vasu Jakkal said on a panel this week. Microsoft solution providers are “critical” to the vendor’s plans for achieving and maintaining responsible artificial intelligence and security, Microsoft executives told CRN this week. During a panel on responsible AI and security held the week of Microsoft Build 2024, CRN…
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Robert “Bob” Dutkowsky, who successfully served as CEO at multiple tech companies before taking over IT distributor Tech Data where he was responsible for that company’s rise to the top, was remembered not only as a successful IT businessman but as someone who was just as likely to talk about the importance of building a…
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‘This is materially different than the Dell model we had in the past. Previously we had a ‘meet in the channel’ model where Nutanix software and Dell hardware were brought together by a partner. This is different in the sense that Dell has now introduced a model that heretofore has only been reserved for [VMware]…
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‘I still remember distinctly the first time Win32 was discussed … .Net, Azure. These are moments that I’ve marked my life with. And it just feels like we’re, yet again, at a moment like that,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in his keynote at Build 2024. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella declared “a golden…
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