Tag: Cloud Platforms

“I don’t think you could point to another large technology company that’s ever done something like this: 60 percent margin. And that’s not ‘up to’ 60 percent, but actually 60 percent,” Google’s Kevin Ichhpurani tells CRN. Google Cloud is taking channel margins to new heights as Kevin Ichhpurani tells CRN that Google partners who win…

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Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data analytics and business intelligence space. Gaining Business Insights Data analytics, business intelligence and data visualization software are critical components of the big data technology stack. They are the tools that everyone from everyday business users…

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AI and analytics systems need data – lots of it. CRN’s annual Big Data 100 takes a look at the developers of data analysis tools, database systems, data management software and other technologies in the big data arena that solution providers should be aware of. The rush to develop and implement artificial intelligence and generative…

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‘We have so much headroom, we can double in size and no one still knows us, which is great. We can just keep under that radar and be twice that size,’ Dale Foster, CEO of Climb Channel Solutions, tells CRN. Competition is good, said Dale Foster, but staying under the radar is Climb Channel Solutions’…

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Here are the 50 hottest data center companies in the world—which includes tech giants, colocation specialists and edge providers—that made CRN’s 2024 Data Center 50 list. Data center innovation is being taken to the next level in the new era of artificial intelligence as chipmakers such as AMD and Nvidia, hardware leaders such as Cisco…

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Salesforce’s biggest acquisition was the $28 billion purchase of Slack in 2021. Salesforce reportedly wants to buy artificial intelligence-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica, according to multiple news outlets, not long after its frequent acquisitions put Salesforce in the crosshairs of activist investors. Should Salesforce – a San Francisco-based customer relationship management software vendor –…

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‘The combined power of the BMC Helix platform and Netreo solutions provides IT Operations, DevOps practitioners, developers, and network teams with comprehensive insights spanning applications, infrastructure, and networks, helping them increase the overall reliability and performance,’ wrote Margaret Lee, BMC’s senior vice president and general manager of digital service and operations management, in a blog…

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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…

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As part of IoT Week, CRN has rounded up industrial IoT solutions from five significant vendors in the space—Hitachi Vantara, Johnson Controls, Litmus, PTC and Siemens—that are solving big problems for manufacturers, utilities and building operators. Businesses across the world are expected to ramp up investments in IoT projects this year, and a great deal…

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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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