Tag: Cloud Software

Proofpoint, Slack, Tanium, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks, Nvidia and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires during November 2023. New CEOs of Proofpoint and Slack. A new channel chief at Tanium. And a new chief marketing officer for Cisco subsidiary AppDynamics. Sumit Dhawan, formerly of VMware; Denise Holland Dresser, formerly with Slack…

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‘When we look at things like what’s going on with VMware, if you’ve got your partnership with VMware, great, we’re not here to completely replace that,’ says Christie Kanen, Canadian channel manager for Scale Computing. ‘We are understanding what’s going on in the market and the trends and understanding that customers want options.’ From partner…

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The software giant will focus on its core S/4HANA and Business Technology Platform products and plans to sell off its stake in customer experience application developer Qualtrics. Business application giant SAP is laying off up to 3,000 employees – about 2.5 percent of its global workforce – joining a growing list of IT vendors cutting…

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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…

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The expanded Accelerate with Confluent initiative offers resources and expertise to help systems integrators develop repeatable services and solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and help customers realize value more quickly. Data streaming technology developer Confluent has launched a revamped partner program to help systems integrators better develop and deliver solutions based on the…

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From Broadcom-VMware to Google Gemini, CRN breaks down the 12 biggest product launches and news from Google Cloud Next that partners and customers need to know about. Google Cloud ramped up its artificial intelligence and generative AI charge at Google Cloud Next 2024 last week with some huge product launches and news—including a new partnership…

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The massive amounts of data possessed by Google and Apple could make each company a strong contender in generative AI. Microsoft and OpenAI may have a first-mover advantage in the exploding market for AI chatbots, but don’t count out some of the other tech giants that have access to massive quantities of AI-training data, such…

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‘We will do another 20 or 25 roll-ups this year. This latest acquisition makes 29 acquisitions for us. And so thinking about 25 acquisitions in 2024 is not crazy. Realistically, if we take out the last two months where we didn’t make an acquisition, we did those 29 in like 14 months. We’re gluttons for…

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From 66degrees and Quantiphi to World Wide Technology and Deloitte, here are 11 top Google partners that won Google Cloud’s 2024 Partner of the Year Award in areas like sales, services and expansion. Although there are thousands of Google Cloud channel partners in North America, only a select few won the cloud company’s prestigious Partner…

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“The customers that are coming from all of those competitors are saying the same thing, which is, ‘I want a beautifully well-engineered, elegantly written, modern architecture platform for my business,’” says Michael George, Syncro CEO. While Michael George knows competition is healthy, he believes Syncro’s toolset is perfectly aligned to help MSPs grow. “I’d like…

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