Tag: Cloud Software

This ‘separates us a little bit also from the competition,’ Shawn Ahmed, CloudBees’ chief product officer, tells CRN in an interview. Cloud-native developer security operations platform provider CloudBees is boosting its quality assurance and generative artificial intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Launchable – potentially bringing more QA work to its channel partners. As part…

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“This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, regarding his decision to leave for Anthropic. John Schulman, OpenAI co-founder and a key leader in the creation of ChatGPT,…

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Consultancy specialist Thoughtworks is being taken private for $1.7 billion, as its new restructuring plan now will “impact” hundreds of employees. Top Amazon Web Services and Google partner Thoughtworks is being taken private by Apax Partners in a deal worth $1.75 billion as the IT consultancy also unveiled a new plan that will impact hundreds…

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‘We are combining teams and prioritizing where we invest across the company. We continually evolve our business, so we’re set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners,’ Dell Technologies said in a statement. Dell Technologies is cutting some sales jobs and adding others, as it reorganizes its business…

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Here’s a head-to-head comparison of AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud’s recent financial earnings results for second-quarter 2024, including revenue, sales growth, cloud market share and operating income. The results are in for the three largest cloud computing companies on the planet with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud each recently reporting their financial…

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Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate. Overachievers These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate both ongoing economic uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape as artificial…

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This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Google will hire the co-founders and members of the research team for Character.AI in exchange for an undisclosed…

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Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are among the most impressive SaaS companies so far this year. A sales tax management tools provider. A way to turn sales and customer calls into intelligence. And a conversational artificial intelligence platform from the former co-CEO of Salesforce. Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are just some of the startups operating under…

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‘Based on its market investigation, the Commission found that the transaction, as notified, would not significantly reduce competition on such markets,’ the European Commission said. Citing “no competition concerns” in the European Economic Area, the European Commission Thursday unconditionally approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks “Based on its market investigation,…

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From AT&T to Salesforce and Microsoft, these are among the biggest cloud outages this year so far. A major AT&T outage in February. Salesforce service failures in May. And Microsoft solution providers facing down times in Azure and Microsoft 365 in July. These are just some of the biggest cloud outages the world has faced…

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