Tag: Database and System Software
“Customer data and metadata are the new gold for these enterprises,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Wednesday. Salesforce executives played up growth in the vendor’s artificial intelligence offerings while acknowledging continued “measured” customer buying patterns including longer sales cycles and smaller during the fiscal 2025 first quarter. Marc Benioff, CEO and co-founder of the San…
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Customer AI spending, Data Cloud traction and MuleSoft progress are expected to come up. A pulse on customer spending on artificial intelligence. Traction in Data Cloud and Einstein 1. And continuing progress in MuleSoft. These are some of the major topics expected to come up Wednesday during Salesforce’s earnings call for its first fiscal quarter,…
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CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 list ranks the top VARs, systems integrators, service providers and IT consultants with operations in North America by revenue. Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s list. The Top 25 In March, Cognizant launched its Advanced AI Lab in San Francisco, focused on developing core AI research and…
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‘Security is a team sport,’ Microsoft CVP Vasu Jakkal said on a panel this week. Microsoft solution providers are “critical” to the vendor’s plans for achieving and maintaining responsible artificial intelligence and security, Microsoft executives told CRN this week. During a panel on responsible AI and security held the week of Microsoft Build 2024, CRN…
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‘I still remember distinctly the first time Win32 was discussed … .Net, Azure. These are moments that I’ve marked my life with. And it just feels like we’re, yet again, at a moment like that,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in his keynote at Build 2024. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella declared “a golden…
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“We’re going to have a big refresh moment,” Microsoft VP Mark Linton tells CRN in an interview. Copilot+ PCs, which Microsoft bills as “the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built,” carry a massive partner opportunity as Windows 10 end of support spurs customers into looking at buying new devices. “We’re going to have a…
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News around Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Team Copilot and Defender for Cloud are some of the most exciting updates to come out of Build 2024. An upcoming preview for Microsoft Copilot in Azure. Team Copilot’s ability to bring generative artificial intelligence to entire organizations and departments. And upgrades to Defender for Cloud to better protect…
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Long View Systems, T-Rex Solutions, NexusTek, Secureworks, Deepwatch and Five9 are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Long View Systems, T-Rex Solutions and NexusTek are among the solution providers to list open positions while Secureworks, Deepwatch and Five9 are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles.…
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With the Series E financing round the company achieves “unicorn” status with a $1.6 billion valuation as data-intensive AI and generative AI applications boost demand for the company’s software. Data management platform developer WekaIO has raised $140 million in an oversubscribed Series E round of funding that boosts the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion, the…
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Capgemini, Miracle Software Systems and Presidio were among the standout solution providers at Red Hat Summit 2024. One of the central messages throughout Red Hat’s Summit 2024 event was that the open source enterprise tools vendor sees solution providers as integral in meeting customer demand in multiple technology opportunities, including artificial intelligence and virtualization. During…
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