Tag: Database and System Software

This ‘separates us a little bit also from the competition,’ Shawn Ahmed, CloudBees’ chief product officer, tells CRN in an interview. Cloud-native developer security operations platform provider CloudBees is boosting its quality assurance and generative artificial intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Launchable – potentially bringing more QA work to its channel partners. As part…

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Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate. Overachievers These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate both ongoing economic uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape as artificial…

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This “agreement with Google … will allow us to accelerate our progress,” Character.AI said in a blog post. In a deal that might remind some of Microsoft’s March hiring of Inflection CEO and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Google will hire the co-founders and members of the research team for Character.AI in exchange for an undisclosed…

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Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are among the most impressive SaaS companies so far this year. A sales tax management tools provider. A way to turn sales and customer calls into intelligence. And a conversational artificial intelligence platform from the former co-CEO of Salesforce. Anrok, Momentum.io and Sierra are just some of the startups operating under…

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AWS capabilities around “operational performance and security … and a deeper partner ecosystem” remain differentiators in the cloud race, Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy said. Amazon Web Services partners, and Amazon itself, are seeing increased work around preparing customer data for artificial intelligence – which will also drive growth in the vendor’s cloud business, though AI…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was named this week as CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive of 2024. Microsoft executives came armed with data to show a growing artificial intelligence business and assurances that the vendor’s growing expenses to meet AI demand are done responsibly during the tech giant’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday.…

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Amazon’s next quarterly earnings call should feature details on Amazon Web Services management and AWS’ AI and database products. A new Amazon Web Services CEO. The opportunity in artificial intelligence. And innovation in the database business. These are some of the subjects likely to come up during the Seattle-based cloud giant’s Thursday earnings call, when…

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‘Red Hat is really doubling down on our commitment to the ecosystem,’ Red Hat VP Kevin Kennedy tells CRN. Amid a boost in business opportunities in artificial intelligence and migration from legacy virtualization vendors, Red Hat is transforming its partner program to standardization worldwide, streamlined incentives and a better digital experience. Kevin Kennedy, vice president…

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CrowdStrike, AI and Copilot+ PCs are expected to come up during the quarterly earnings call Tuesday. The CrowdStrike update incident. Details on the cost and revenue from artificial intelligence. And updates on the rollout of AI PCs. Microsoft executives have a lot to cover Tuesday during the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s fourth fiscal quarter earnings…

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‘This year we have got a big one coming [with HashiCorp]. … Part of the discipline is also making sure that we kind of digest them at the right rate and pace and put them into our global market distribution engine,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the company’s second-quarter earnings call. IBM exceeded expectations…

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