Tag: Cloud Software

‘Red Hat is really doubling down on our commitment to the ecosystem,’ Red Hat VP Kevin Kennedy tells CRN. Amid a boost in business opportunities in artificial intelligence and migration from legacy virtualization vendors, Red Hat is transforming its partner program to standardization worldwide, streamlined incentives and a better digital experience. Kevin Kennedy, vice president…

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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive, is earning accolades from partners as he keeps AI at the forefront of the company’s mission and steers investments and innovation around Copilot, GenAI and more. When World Wide Technology’s Jim Kavanaugh attended Microsoft’s high-profile CEO Summit this spring, one major thing stood…

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For the week ending July 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including ServiceNow, Mimecast, Google Cloud, Liongard and Accenture. The Week Ending July 26 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is ServiceNow for a strategic acquisition focused on GenAI-based search technology. Also making this…

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ServiceNow, which has been building out its GenAI-powered search capabilities for years, has acquired Raytion which the company said will give it the ability to search across all of a company’s enterprise knowledge systems including ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Atlassian. ServiceNow Wednesday unveiled the acquisition of Raytion as a way to expand its Now platform’s GenAI-powered…

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New data from cloud insurance firm Parametrix sheds light on the financial cost of the massive CrowdStrike outage last week that affected millions of Microsoft devices. The massive CrowdStrike outage that affected millions of Microsoft devices is predicted to cost U.S. Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in total direct financial loss, with an average loss…

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‘This year we have got a big one coming [with HashiCorp]. … Part of the discipline is also making sure that we kind of digest them at the right rate and pace and put them into our global market distribution engine,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the company’s second-quarter earnings call. IBM exceeded expectations…

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ServiceNow says that the company had informed the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General and the Army Suspension and Debarment Office of the investigation and ‘is continuing to cooperate with the Department of Justice, which has commenced its own investigation into these matters.’ ServiceNow said that its president and…

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‘Year-to-date, our AI infrastructure and generative AI solutions for Cloud customers have already generated billions in revenues and are being used by more than 2 million developers,’ said Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s recent Q2 2024 earnings report. Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s second quarter 2024 earnings call spoke bullishly about…

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Here’s everything you need to know about the new VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine offering, incentives, price cuts and how it relates to Microsoft Azure and AWS’ VMware cloud solutions. Google Cloud is putting the full court press on urging VMware Cloud Foundation customers to migrate their VMware workloads over to Google…

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The HashiCorp acquisition, GenAI and Red Hat taking on VMware are likely to come up. Updates on the HashiCorp acquisition. Details on IBM’s approach to the artificial intelligence gold rush. And IBM subsidiary Red Hat taking on VMware and legacy virtualization vendors. These are just some of the topics analysts will likely bring up Wednesday…

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