Tag: Cloud Software
Salesforce has dropped its acquisition plans to buy data management software company Informatica for an estimated $11 billion, reports indicate. Salesforce has reportedly backed away from its pursuit to acquire Informatica, a data management software specialist, for roughly $11 billion. Both sides couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal and talks have now come…
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‘A lot of the initial focus of AI was on public cloud, training these large language models. But when it comes to real applications, they’re going to be deployed where the data is and a lot of data is on-prem, it’s at the edge,’ Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami tells CRN. For partners who want to…
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Offerings will increase by as much as 17 percent and as little as 9 percent. Microsoft plans to increase prices for a variety of Dynamics 365 offerings on Oct. 1 by an average of 12 percent or $17 per user or per device per month as the vendor adds more generative artificial intelligence functionality and…
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Salesforce’s biggest acquisition was the $28 billion purchase of Slack in 2021. Salesforce reportedly wants to buy artificial intelligence-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica, according to multiple news outlets, not long after its frequent acquisitions put Salesforce in the crosshairs of activist investors. Should Salesforce – a San Francisco-based customer relationship management software vendor –…
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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…
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Inriver, a developer of product information management software, has hired Cunningham and a new chief sales officer as the Sweden-based company revs up for expansion in North America – including plans to grow its channel presence. Inriver, a Sweden-based developer of product information management software, has hired former Datto chief marketing officer Brooke Cunningham as…
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‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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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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