Tag: Generative AI

“We’re at $100 billion-plus annualized revenue run rate, yet 85 percent or more of the global IT spend remains on-premises,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon’s CEO and former longtime leader of AWS. Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’ generative AI strategy is accelerating companies to ditch their on-premises IT environments in favor of the cloud, with…

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Updates on Lightspeed, OpenShift AI and Red Hat’s partnership with Nvidia are some of the major news made this week at Summit. Lightspeed expansion. Red Hat OpenShift AI enhancements. And deeper partnerships with the likes of Stability AI, Oracle and Nvidia. These are some of the biggest news items from the Raleigh, N.C.-based open source…

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Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica, Wipro, HP, Microsoft and Saviynt were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves during April 2024. New CEOs at Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica and Wipro were some of the biggest executive moves last month. Anthony D’Ambrosi, formerly of ATSG; Hamilton Yu; Vicky Papa, formerly of NTT Data; and…

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Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal and Google with GenAI-powered capabilities, the company says. Google Cloud announced a new cybersecurity offering Monday that represents a major advancement by making threat intelligence more automated and “more actionable,” an executive told CRN.…

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Here’s the exact global cloud market share figures for AWS, Alibaba, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Salesforce for first quarter 2024 as the market increased to $76 billion. The three largest cloud companies on the planet—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud—continued to battle for global cloud market share leadership during the first quarter of 2024,…

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For the week ending May 3, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Insight Enterprises, D&H Distributing, MongoDB, Intel and Sterling. The Week Ending May 3 Topping this week’s Came to Win is solution provider heavyweight Insight Enterprises for a strategic acquisition that adds ServiceNow expertise…

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In Apple’s first-quarter earnings call, the chief executive of Apple says the company will make an announcement in the ‘weeks head’ and added that he expects generative AI capabilities to come to the ‘vast majority of our devices.’ Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to share details “soon” about new generative AI capabilities…

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‘We want to take the fear of adopting AI because of data leakage and data governance, compliance, we want to take that out of the equation,’ Bradley Reynolds, SVP for artificial intelligence at Expedient, tells CRN. To stop the secret sauce from leaking, don’t bring the data to the GenAI model, bring the GenAI model…

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CRN rounds up five cool AI and high-performance computing servers from Dell Technologies, Lenovo, Supermicro and Gigabyte that use AMD’s Instinct MI300 chips, which launched a few months ago to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space. AMD is making its biggest challenge yet to Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space with its…

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Tony Safoian, CEO of Google Cloud all-star partner SADA, talks about winning new Google Workspace customers, Insight’s Microsoft practice and his bullish thoughts on Google’s AI strategy. After Insight Enterprises acquired Google Cloud superstar SADA for $410 million a few months ago, SADA CEO Tony Safoian said he is bullish about the new cloud customer…

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