Tag: Cloud Platforms
The MongoDB database powers Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB for MongoDB database-as-a-service offering, which is seeing significant sales growth in China, especially among gaming developers, according to the companies. Next-generation database developer MongoDB and Chinese cloud platform giant Alibaba Cloud are extending by four years their strategic alliance under which the MongoDB cloud database is the foundation…
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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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Customers will also lose the ability to set user permission, manage enterprise agreements, or purchase support between April 30 and May 6, according to an update to VMware’s knowledge base Tuesday. Broadcom is suspending all VMware sales and upgrades—along with nine other critical features —for a week so it can move VMware’s SAP-based ERP (enterprise…
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Partner competencies and specializes, combined with “delivery excellence” and customer bookings and references, are the benchmarks by which Pegasystem partners will be assessed under the Pega Partner program framework. Pegasystems is launching an update of its channel program today, putting more emphasis on partner skills and success, offering more vertical industry specializations, and eliminating sales…
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“We’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” a Google spokesperson said in an email. Google reportedly continues to conduct layoffs, this time letting go of employees in its finance and real estate units – but the company continues to invest in geographic growth hubs in Ireland, the U.S. and…
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CRN outlines eight big announcements from this month’s Intel Vision event that reflect the semiconductor giant’s vision for the future of AI computing, where it hopes to play an outsized role through a mix of CPUs, GPUs, purpose-built AI chips, Ethernet solutions and software. Intel unveiled the next step of its plan to fight Nvidia,…
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‘This flexibility is crucial for adapting to business dynamics like mergers, acquisitions or shifts in customer preferences. It allows us to be more responsible and agile in how we manage our client relationships,’ Jean Prejean, president of Guardian Computer, tells CRN. Microsoft has confirmed that it is changing one of the most controversial parts of…
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‘Pax8 recently made the difficult decision to conduct a reduction in workforce. This move primarily impacted North America and was less than five percent of our global workforce. Parting with valued teammates is never easy, but these actions will enable us to optimize operations, increase alignment, and position our business for long-term success,’ said a…
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‘Customers that need VMware and rely on it are going to have to pay a lot more money to use it,’ says an HPE VMware partner, who did not want to be identified. “Short term the HPE Broadcom OEM extension might mean some additional VMware business for us but long term we are looking for…
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For the week ending April 19, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Armis, Commvault, Confluent, Cisco Systems and Rubrik. The Week Ending April 19 Topping this week’s Came to Win is cybersecurity unicorn Armis for a strategic acquisition that will expand the company’s technology portfolio…
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