Tag: Cloud Software
For the week ending May 17, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Palo Alto Networks, WekaIO, Alkira, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kyndryl and Ampere. The Week Ending May 17 Topping this week’s Came to Win is cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks, which is making a key…
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Snowflake is seeking to acquire AI startup company Reka AI for over $1 billion as the cloud data superstar strives to build the world’s No. 1 AI ecosystem. The $2.67 billion company is reportedly in talks to acquire Reka AI in a move to boost its generative AI innovation and capabilities. “We have this strategy…
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From publicly taking shots at Microsoft to being AWS’ first-ever product manager for Amazon EC2, here are six big things partners and customers need to know about AWS’ new CEO Matt Garman. From being Amazon EC2’s first-ever product manager and helping roll out Amazon Web Services’ first service level agreements, to why Amazon CEO Andy…
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With the Series E financing round the company achieves “unicorn” status with a $1.6 billion valuation as data-intensive AI and generative AI applications boost demand for the company’s software. Data management platform developer WekaIO has raised $140 million in an oversubscribed Series E round of funding that boosts the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion, the…
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‘Every deal that we transact is through a channel partner,’ Kevin Kramer, Alkira VP of global sales, told CRN. On-demand network infrastructure vendor Alkira has closed a $100 million Series C round of funding, with executives reiterating the company’s 100 percent channel go-to-market strategy as it sees customer demand grow amid uncertainty with legacy vendors…
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The new offerings include HPE GreenLake Block Storage For AWS, which allows HPE partners to “seamlessly manage” block storage across on premise GreenLake and AWS public cloud environments, according to HPE. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Wednesday unleashed a new version of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage designed to “leapfrog” competitors and establish HPE as a leader…
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‘Everyone is chasing HPE as the (hybrid cloud) platform to beat,’ says Curtis Dery, senior vice president of Powerland, a Canadian IT service provider and Xerox Business Solutions Company. ‘I would say everyone is about two to three years behind where HPE is right now.’ Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a significant lead in the race…
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“It works with VMware. And it also works with RedHat and every hypervisor and container platform. It’s developer friendly. It works in all the public clouds. It works on-prem. It works colo. It works everywhere. We’ve been having great momentum with that,” Dell Technologies’ CEO Michael Dell said of the company’s PowerFlex in an interview…
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In a blockbuster move today, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky unveiled he is leaving the company on June 3, being replaced by longtime AWS executive Matt Garman. Some partners believe Amazon Web Services’ newly announced CEO, Matt Garman, will elevate AWS even further following the sudden departure of Adam Selipsky today after 15 years with the…
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Kyndryl said that it will use the net proceeds from the two deals for ‘general corporate purposes.’ IT infrastructure services powerhouse Kyndryl said Monday that it acquired a Seattle firm to expand its hybrid cloud service offerings and help move and run more workloads in Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. Seattle-based Skytap’s technologies combined with…
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