Tag: Generative AI
‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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‘This workforce reduction is aimed at further driving operational efficiency and customer centricity,’ according to a UiPath regulatory filing. About a month after changing CEOs, business automation platform provider UiPath revealed plans to cut 10 percent of its employee base – about 4,200 employees. The New York-based vendor said in a regulatory filing that most…
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As part of its efforts to challenge Nvidia, the chip designer says its $665 million acquisition of European AI lab and open-source large language model developer Silo AI will help enterprises develop and deploy AI solutions faster and more effectively. AMD has reached a deal to acquire Silo AI, which it called the largest private…
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AWS is investing cloud credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars for AI startups as Google, Amazon and Microsoft all battle to win over the hottest startups in the world as customers. Amazon Web Services is putting the full-court press on Microsoft and Google by giving hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cloud credits…
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‘What I really hope in 12 months is that the MSP industry sees that there’s a new way to operate and that MSPs of the future are going to have to find ways to use automation to increase their margins,’ says Gerwai Todd, Pia CEO. Pia CEO Gerwai Todd is focusing on more and more…
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CRN rounds up the 10 biggest Nvidia news stories of 2024 so far, which range from three software startup acquisition deals and plans to boost AI PC development, to expanded partnerships with major tech vendors and significant financial milestones. It’s halfway through 2024, and Nvidia has managed to fit what feels like a year’s worth…
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Based on user posts to Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn, the cuts have hit a variety of managers, engineers and other job titles in Microsoft. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has started with a round of layoffs and some changes in its partner program, especially around requirements for specializations. Layoffs aren’t unusual for Microsoft this time of…
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‘I’ve been out preaching this for well over a year now, that data center capacity is going to be an issue in this industry. … Trying to go out and find any capacity for this, of any meaningful size right now, it’s impossible. It doesn’t exist,’ Applied Digital CEO Wes Cummins tells CRN. Data center…
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‘Data centers have been built the way they have been built for the last 30 years. That isn’t going to get us to the next 30 years. That is going to have to change,’ Arthur Lewis, president of Dell’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, tells CRN. Arthur Lewis, president of Dell Technologies’ Infrastructure Solutions Group, said the…
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