Tag: Telecom
The outage Thursday morning had prevented some AT&T users from accessing Microsoft 365 and Azure services. AT&T said that “connections are operating normally” as of mid-morning Thursday, EDT, following reports that Microsoft 365 and Azure services were inaccessible for AT&T users earlier in the morning. Microsoft also confirmed that the issues that caused the outage…
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“I’ll lead our referral, resale, distribution, and strategies, all aimed at expanding Zoom’s impact and empowering our partners to achieve even greater success,” said Nick Tidd, Zoom’s new go-to-market global channel leader. Channel veteran Nick Tidd has left Hewlett Packard’s hybrid work subsidiary Poly to join videoconferencing rival Zoom as its new head of global…
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‘We saw the paradigm shift happening in telecom,’ LabLabee CEO Samir Tahraoui tells CRN in an interview. LabLabee, a startup that provides a platform for training workers at solution providers and vendors in the latest technology for networking, telecommunications and 5G use cases, has raised a $3.4 million seed round of funding as it prepares…
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For the week ending Sept. 6, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Verizon, Amazon Web services, Salesforce, Palo Alto Networks, and Couchbase. The Week Ending Sept. 6 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Verizon for striking a $20 billion acquisition deal that will…
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Frontier has a market capitalization of about $10 billion with its stock trading at about $39 a share after market hours Wednesday, up about 11 percent. Verizon is reportedly in talks to buy rival Frontier Communications to grow its fiber network and better compete with AT&T and other rivals. The Basking Ridge, N.J.-based telecommunications vendor…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins cited ‘several $100 million-plus transactions in the quarter.’ Deep cuts at Cisco Systems appear aimed at readying the 40-year-old networking giant for increased customer demand to modernize technology for improved security and artificial intelligence growth – areas where Cisco partners can see business gains in the new fiscal year. These are…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says his team is “shifting hundreds of millions of dollars into AI,” including AI networking for cloud, AI infrastructure, silicon and cybersecurity. Cisco Systems crossed $1 billion to date in AI orders with webscale customers and predicts another $1 billion in AI product orders this fiscal year. On the San Jose,…
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Major IT companies looking to expand their technology portfolios and private equity firms buying IT vendors and solution providers account for many of the biggest mergers and acquisitions this year. And AI is a factor in many acquisitions. Here’s a look at the biggest tech mergers and acquisitions that have been announced, completed or are…
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Arctiq, Aviatrix, Optiv, AWS, Salesforce and OpenText were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in July 2024. A new chief revenue officer at Arctiq. A new chief technology officer at Aviatrix. And a new senior vice president of partners, alliances and ecosystems at Optiv. Chris McMillen, formerly of Ahead; Anirban Sengupta,…
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AI, cloud, Splunk and security are among the subjects expected to come up. Artificial intelligence opportunities. An update on Splunk and the security portfolio. And the effects of cloud demand. These are some of the subjects likely to come up Wednesday during the latest quarterly earnings report from networking giant Cisco Systems. The San Jose,…
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