Tag: Generative AI
“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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Fresh off its $1.1 billion funding round this month, cloud AI startup CoreWeave is reportedly looking to hit the public market by the first half of 2025. Here’s what you need to know. CoreWeave, the cloud AI startup heavily backed by Nvidia and private equity firms, is reportedly seeking to become a public company in…
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‘When we look at what’s in our pipeline, it is increasingly filled with newer technologies. That tells us that those newer offerings, whether they’re around cloud, around AI, around quantum, around digital workplace, are really getting the buyers’ attention,’ says Unisys’ Chairman and CEO Peter Altabef. While global IT solution provider Unisys can trace its…
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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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Solution providers play a critical role in helping businesses and organizations adopt and get the most value from leading-edge technologies – AI and generative AI being the most recent example. This week we present the CRN 2024 Solution Provider 500, the annual ranking of the largest solution providers by revenue with operations in North America.…
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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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Channel Chief Kate Woodley takes a deep dive with CRN on IBM’s partner strategy, its new MSP program and why IBM is pushing the channel to become Palo Alto Networks partners following the sale of QRadar. Kate Woolley, IBM’s global channel chief, sat down with CRN at IBM Think 2024 to discuss the company’s upcoming…
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The main contributor was Nvidia’s data center revenue, which more than quintupled in the first quarter from the same period last year, growing 427 percent year-over-year to $22.5 billion. Nvidia once again reported triple-digit growth in revenue and profit in the latest quarter from the same period last year, a sign that demand for the…
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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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‘For those partners who are building meaningful AI capabilities, we’re giving you access to Dell-validated designs,’ Dell Technologies’ Denise Millard told partners this week. ‘We’re doing the engineering to make sure those deployments are repeatable and scalable, and you don’t have to figure it out on your own. We’re giving you access to Dell Solutions…
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