Tag: Cloud Software
‘Lots of MSPs, they want to use AI … You need to have your data in the cloud. And if you’re not doing that, you’re really not going to be able to leverage the full power of AI,” Nerdio CRO Joseph Landes says. Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop management vendor Nerdio continues to invest in its…
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CRN breaks down 10 major new hires and executive departures at AWS in recent months, which includes many AI executives. Amazon Web Services is snatching up major artificial intelligence talent including CEOs from AI startups along with executives who’ve worked for the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google Cloud. However, AWS has also recently witnessed…
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For the week ending Aug. 30, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cribl, Check Point, Intel, Citrix and IBM. The Week Ending Aug. 30 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is data management and observability tech developer Cribl for its very impressive nine-figure funding…
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This year’s leading news stories (so far) include the ongoing AI wave that’s remaking the IT industry, the impact of three multi-billion-dollar acquisition deals, the contrasting fortunes of two of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies – and what was likely the biggest IT system failure to date. AI Highs, Service Failure Lows The top news…
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OpenAI is reportedly courting Apple as an investor. OpenAI is reportedly courting Apple as an investor in a funding round that would take the ChatGPT creator and artificial intelligence innovator to a valuation of more than $100 billion. Apple rival Microsoft – which has invested about $13 billion into OpenAI, owns 49 percent of the…
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‘We did a higher percentage of the business through the channel in Q2 than we have during my tenure at any time,’ Citrix channel chief Ethan Fitzsimons tells CRN in an interview. Almost two years after Citrix was taken private and merged with enterprise software vendor Tibco, the virtualization and desktop delivery company is “more…
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The goal of the partnership is to ensure Citrix Service Provider partners ‘have the level of coverage, service, technical support, so on and so forth that they need to be effective in their business and maintain flexibility in the model in which they want to consume,’ says Ethan Fitzsimons, Citrix’s channel chief. Citrix, a business…
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan was a guest at VMware Explore in Las Vegas last year, but one year and $69 billion dollars later, it is his party as the newly acquired VMware By Broadcom showed off new cloud foundations, Tanzu, and AI products designed to simplify cloud deployments and deliver private, virtualized AI infrastructure. Paul…
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Having achieved $100 million in ARR last year, the developer of data management and observability software says it now ranks among the fastest growing infrastructure software companies in the IT industry. Cribl has raised $319 million in an oversubscribed Series E funding round that boosted the valuation of the developer of IT and security data…
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Eyes are on Salesforce to “reverse those challenging results from 1Q25,” according to a KeyBanc report. Salesforce Data Cloud performance. Artificial intelligence investments. And a partnership with rival Workday. These are some of the main subjects expected to come up Wednesday when Salesforce reveals its performance for the fiscal 2025 second quarter ended July 31.…
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