Tag: Database and System Software

‘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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‘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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AI, Azure and security are just some of the biggest topics expected to come up Thursday on the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings call. Updates on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and Copilot offerings. Growth in the cloud and Azure business. And the tech giant’s position in the ever-competitive security market. These are some of the biggest…

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Part 7 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the startup companies solution providers should know in the big data arena. Big Data, Big Plans The majority of the companies on the CRN 2024 Big Data 100 are either major IT vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Oracle, or younger – albeit…

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“We believe there will be added demand because a combined portfolio is more interesting,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said on an earnings call. IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools provider Red Hat – even as IBM…

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“We’re moving this huge campus, which will ultimately be our world headquarters, we’re moving that to Nashville,” Oracle’s Larry Ellison said Tuesday. During its Oracle Health Summit 2024 in Nashville, Tenn., Tuesday, Larry Ellison, the vendor’s co-founder, chairman and CTO, revealed on stage that the database products and cloud computing vendor wants to ditch its…

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Part 6 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data operations and data observability space. Upon Closer Observation Data teams within businesses and organizations strive to provide internal business users and external customers with analytical insights. But those efforts often fall short because the data…

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GenAI, Red Hat and potential acquisitions are expected to come up on the vendor’s earnings call Wednesday. Updates on generative artificial intelligence offerings. Growth in the Red Hat business. And the potential acquisition of HashiCorp. These are some of the big topics IBM executives are expected to weigh in on during the Armonk, N.Y.-based vendor’s…

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Part 5 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data warehouse and data lake systems and services space. In-House Analytics Data warehouses have been at the center of data analytics systems as far back as the 1980s. Today cloud-based data warehouse services offered by the…

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Public sector customers include those in education, nonprofit and on Microsoft’s Government Community Cloud. Microsoft has delayed three deadlines related to Cloud Solution Provider partners selling subscriptions through the vendor’s New Commerce Experience to public sector customers and migrating existing subscriptions on to NCE. The first revised deadline CSP partners need to keep in mind…

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