Tag: Cloud Software

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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The MongoDB database powers Alibaba Cloud’s ApsaraDB for MongoDB database-as-a-service offering, which is seeing significant sales growth in China, especially among gaming developers, according to the companies. Next-generation database developer MongoDB and Chinese cloud platform giant Alibaba Cloud are extending by four years their strategic alliance under which the MongoDB cloud database is the foundation…

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“This change was made based on partner feedback and will provide greater flexibility, creating a smoother experience for both partners and customers,” according to Microsoft documents. This quarter, Microsoft plans to allow solution providers in its Cloud Solution Provider program to transfer end customer new commerce experience subscriptions from one partner to another midterm, eliminating…

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Customers will also lose the ability to set user permission, manage enterprise agreements, or purchase support between April 30 and May 6, according to an update to VMware’s knowledge base Tuesday. Broadcom is suspending all VMware sales and upgrades—along with nine other critical features —for a week so it can move VMware’s SAP-based ERP (enterprise…

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