Tag: Collaboration & Communication
AWS’ global partner leader, Ruba Borno, talks with CRN about the general availability of Amazon Q Tuesday and why the AI-powered assistant is better than rivals Google and Microsoft’s generative AI technology. AWS’ Ruba Borno is bullish that Amazon Q is now the world’s best generative AI-powered assistant as the new AI chatbot becomes generally…
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‘Azure could become the biggest and more important hyperscaler provider,’ according to one analyst report Friday. Microsoft’s latest quarterly results beat a variety of expectations from Wall Street, but of importance to its services partners is the tech giant’s expectation that not only can artificial intelligence grow, but its cloud offerings have not yet plateaued—with…
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For the week ending April 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including IBM, Nvidia, ThreatLocker, HPE Aruba and FlexAI. The Week Ending April 26 Topping this week’s Came to Win is IBM for its blockbuster deal to acquire cloud infrastructure management tool developer HashiCorp. Also…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s bold remarks during Google’s earnings report include touting Workspace as the leader in cybersecurity, Google Cloud and YouTube having a combined $100 billion run rate by the end of the year, and why a ‘strong partner program’ is needed to drive AI. Google CEO Sundar Pichai (pictured) said Google “owns the…
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‘All of these tools are now available, the sophistication of how people can deploy these models across various business processes where there is data and where there is tuning of these models is also getting more widespread, even at systems integrators and other developers [that] are there to help enterprises,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.…
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‘The growth we’re seeing across [Google] Cloud is underpinned by the benefit AI provides for our customers,’ Ruth Porat, president, chief investment officer and CFO, said during Google parent Alphabet’s first-quarter 2024 earnings call Thursday. Google parent Alphabet credited its strong first fiscal quarter of the year to solid Google Search and Google Cloud revenue.…
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‘We experienced disruption across our organization this quarter as our team acclimated to the changes, which primarily impacted equipment sales. I make no excuses for that underperformance and was disappointed with our results, as we did not meet our internal expectations,’ says John Bruno, Xerox president and COO. In the wake of a company restructuring,…
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‘I think we’ve known for a long time that traditional voice had a shelf life. And ultimately it was going to get replaced with integrated communication services and as-a-service capabilities that run over the top of IP. Now we’re seeing that evolution pick up with a degree of steam,’ CEO John Stankey said of business…
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Chanda Wong, a senior product marketing manager for Microsoft 365 for SMBs, told partners on a call last week that they have until Aug. 1 to sell the suites with Teams to a customer as long as the partner quoted the customer before Microsoft announced the end of Teams suites on April 1. Microsoft solution…
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“I don’t think you could point to another large technology company that’s ever done something like this: 60 percent margin. And that’s not ‘up to’ 60 percent, but actually 60 percent,” Google’s Kevin Ichhpurani tells CRN. Google Cloud is taking channel margins to new heights as Kevin Ichhpurani tells CRN that Google partners who win…
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