Tag: Cloud Software
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was named this week as CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive of 2024. Microsoft executives came armed with data to show a growing artificial intelligence business and assurances that the vendor’s growing expenses to meet AI demand are done responsibly during the tech giant’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday.…
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Whole Foods self-checkout lanes were closed and Alexa devices weren’t working. Amazon Web Services was dealing with a significant outage Tuesday as Amazon-owned Whole Foods supermarkets closed self-checkout lanes, delivery drivers abandoned their routes and Alexa devices stopped working. The AWS service health dashboard said that there was a “degradation” of multiple services and the…
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Here’s a look at the tech industry companies that saw the biggest share price gains and losses in the first six months of 2024 including Nvidia, Dell Technologies, UIPath and Lumen Technologies. A Booming Year For Many Tech Stocks – So Far Fueled by anticipated growth from new AI technologies and products, many IT companies…
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This is at least the third major outage for Microsoft in July. Days after a faulty CrowdStrike update downed millions of Windows machines worldwide and a coincidental Microsoft Azure region outage in the United States, Microsoft has reported “access issues and degraded performance” for a variety of services and features under its Microsoft 365 umbrella.…
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Amazon’s next quarterly earnings call should feature details on Amazon Web Services management and AWS’ AI and database products. A new Amazon Web Services CEO. The opportunity in artificial intelligence. And innovation in the database business. These are some of the subjects likely to come up during the Seattle-based cloud giant’s Thursday earnings call, when…
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‘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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