Tag: Cloud Software
For the week ending July 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AMD, K3 Technology, Microsoft, Orca Security and Nasuni. The Week Ending July 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is chip designer AMD for a strategic acquisition in the AI technology space.…
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Here’s a look at 10 open-source software tools – many for building AI applications or managing huge volumes of data – that are either already widely used or are gaining in popularity. A Software Free-For-All Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and…
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‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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K3 Technology is rapidly evolving with the adoption of AI and is doing ‘almost everything’ differently than two years ago, Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO of K3, tells CRN. K3 Technology has acquired Dallas-based MSP OG2 Network Services, creating more opportunities for it to expand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO…
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Google reportedly has walked away from a potentially massive deal to buy CRM provider HubSpot, a merger that would have helped Google Cloud. Google reportedly has abandoned its plans to acquire CRM specialist HubSpot, axing a potential deal that would have been worth billions and aided Google Cloud. HubSpot generated over $2 billion in revenue…
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‘The timing was right because the IPO market has obviously been slower for a lot of tech companies. It also helps us build some brand cachet when companies like Vista, KKR, and TCV are backing us as a growth-stage company. Sometimes customers or channel partners want to know that there’s people behind you. And that…
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‘Microsoft’s playbook of paying off complainants rather than addressing the substance of their complaint hurts businesses and shouldn’t fool anyone,’ said Google Cloud top executive Amit Zavery, following the results of a European antitrust complaint ruling today. Google Cloud is slamming rival Microsoft after the company secured a multimillion-dollar deal to settle a European antitrust…
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‘This workforce reduction is aimed at further driving operational efficiency and customer centricity,’ according to a UiPath regulatory filing. About a month after changing CEOs, business automation platform provider UiPath revealed plans to cut 10 percent of its employee base – about 4,200 employees. The New York-based vendor said in a regulatory filing that most…
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‘[Broadcom’s] been an incredibly successful company. They have a strategy and approach that they take. But I can tell you, it’s not sitting well with the majority of the customers—a very large majority. Customers are looking for alternatives,’ says WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh. Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of the $20 billion tech powerhouse World Wide Technology,…
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