Tag: Generative AI
‘We are not going to be successful driving adoption, sales of any of these things without our ecosystem of partners—the service partners, the MSPs, pretty much the entire constituency,’ says Bargav Balakrishnan, IBM vice president of product management for Power. IBM will incorporate its Spyre Accelerator in future Power products—including its Power11 system releasing next…
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‘AI won’t be perfect. The first algorithm may not be fully accurate, but it will get better every day with human intelligence guiding it,’ says Sanjib Sahoo, Ingram Micro executive vice president and chief digital officer. When it comes to AI, Sanjib Sahoo knows its value. In fact, he said the key to success lies…
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For the week ending Nov. 15, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel, including Presidio, Secuvy, CoreWeave, SAS and Snyk. The Week Ending Nov. 15 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is solution provider superstar Presidio for a strategic acquisition that will expand its expertise and…
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‘Price is a factor, but it’s really more like taking the whole package, which is the pricing, the known stagnation, the changes to support all of that, and sliding that across the table to your customer with whom you might have taken decades to develop trust,’ Nutanix’s Dave Gwyn tells CRN. The reverberations that started…
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Gartner assesses the eight top cloud platform service providers—accounting for 97 percent of the global cloud services market—which includes AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Alibaba, IBM, Huawei and Tencent. The top eight cloud platform service providers own 97 percent share of the global market, with AI and generative AI technologies becoming key to winning customers. These…
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Partners should see ‘a huge opportunity with OpenShift virtualization,’ especially with continued frustrations over price changes at rival VMware, said Kirsten Newcomer, Red Hat’s senior director of hybrid cloud platforms. Updates to Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift AI, Edge Device and Developer Hub should offer partners more ways to do business with customers, executives with the…
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‘So we have embarked on this thing that effectively created an edge cloud,’ Dell’s senior vice president of edge computing, strategy, and execution, Gil Shneorson, tells CRN. ‘And it’s still the only edge operations software that does all of those things combined. There’s nothing like that out there.’ Edge applications in retail or factory environments…
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‘MinIO embraced the S3 API as the standard. And today, MinIO’s adoption is larger than Amazon S3’s. Customers are in the cloud, across the cloud, in private clouds, all the way to edge. Our user application ecosystem is much larger than Amazon’s. We are the single largest player. We made the S3 API an industry…
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‘AI holds significant potential, but the technology itself isn’t useful unless it’s applied to the right use case in business,’ says Sanjib Sahoo, EVP and chief digital officer at Ingram Micro. As AI makes it way deeper into business operations, its potential to transform business operations remains vast. However, Ingram Micro’s Sanjib Sahoo said the…
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‘We wanted to make sure that it’s very clear to our partners that we’re making clear bets with them to help them deliver on customer expectations,’ says Microsoft Chief Partner Officer Nicole Dezen. A “small percentage” of Microsoft direct market cloud Enterprise Agreements that won’t be eligible for renewal under the tech giant’s EA framework––potentially…
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