Tag: Generative AI
Salesforce’s biggest acquisition was the $28 billion purchase of Slack in 2021. Salesforce reportedly wants to buy artificial intelligence-powered cloud data management vendor Informatica, according to multiple news outlets, not long after its frequent acquisitions put Salesforce in the crosshairs of activist investors. Should Salesforce – a San Francisco-based customer relationship management software vendor –…
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“As time goes on, you’re going to see the generative AI really drag not just compute systems, but the traditional core servers as well as traditional storage, because everything is going to be optimized for AI,” Dell ISG president Arthur Lewis told Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference this week. Dell ISG President Arthur…
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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…
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Accenture’s Suzanne Randall, TICOM’s Madonna Peltier-Yawakie and IBM’s Brendan Kinkade share stories from their tech careers and advocacy for indigenous peoples. Suzanne Randall wrote the business case 16 years ago that started Accenture’s Native American Employee Resource Group. Madonna Peltier-Yawakie and her husband help tribal entities secure funding for broadband network designs, project implementation and…
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‘When you think about how much of [our revenue] is actually managed on a day-to-day [basis] by the partners, they’re massive custodians of the brand and customer success and lifetime value,’ says Salesforce channel chief Steve Corfield. Steve Corfield, capping off his first year as Salesforce channel chief, is at work on what he calls…
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Proofpoint, Slack, Tanium, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks, Nvidia and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires during November 2023. New CEOs of Proofpoint and Slack. A new channel chief at Tanium. And a new chief marketing officer for Cisco subsidiary AppDynamics. Sumit Dhawan, formerly of VMware; Denise Holland Dresser, formerly with Slack…
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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…
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At the Intel Vison event, the semiconductor giant reveals several details of its upcoming Gaudi 3 AI chip, which include competitive comparisons against Nvidia’s H100 and H200 GPUs, the release schedule, specifications and OEM support. Intel said its upcoming Gaudi 3 AI accelerator chip can best Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU for training large language models…
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From Broadcom-VMware to Google Gemini, CRN breaks down the 12 biggest product launches and news from Google Cloud Next that partners and customers need to know about. Google Cloud ramped up its artificial intelligence and generative AI charge at Google Cloud Next 2024 last week with some huge product launches and news—including a new partnership…
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‘With this innovation … we have actually been able to deliver something that’s unlike anything we’ve done in the last 40 years at Cisco. And I will say that we’re just getting started,’ says Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s EVP and general manager of security and collaboration on Cisco Hypershield. Cisco Systems has introduced what the tech…
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