Cognizant’s acquisition of Microsoft cloud services provider 10th Magnitude, coming only five weeks after Cognizant acquired New Signature, signals a huge investment in the burgeoning Microsoft Cloud business.
Lenovo is launching four new hyperconverged infrastructure product offerings tied to AMD EPYC processors, Microsoft Azure Stack, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software and VMware’s vSAN.
HPE‘s Cloud Volumes Backup service is experiencing a ‘dramatic expansion in customer accounts’ in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic, says HPE Senior Vice President/Storage General Manager Tom Black.
‘The 11th-gen Core processor is the best processor Intel has ever built. It’s the best processor on the market. And it’s certainly rises above all the imitators,’ Intel’s Gregory Bryant says of the new Tiger Lake processors for ultra-thin laptops that the chipmaker says are faster than AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs.
‘AWS had literally zero involvement in educating or driving the opportunity, but they’re swooping in and leveraging their ELA negotiation capability and putting it in such a way that the customer can’t afford not to do it,’ says a top executive from one of VMware’s largest channel partners.
“We are using the unique InfoSight AI asset to try to transform all aspects of how a partner or customer experiences doing business with us,” said HPE Senior Vice President/Storage General Manager Tom Black. “It is focused on increasing productivity and for a partner to increase profitability—all with this obsession around customer intimacy and relevancy.”
Attorney General William Barr has been pushing for an expedited timeline for bringing a complaint against the Internet giant, even as many of the department’s career prosecutors want more time to assemble a stronger, broader case charging monopolistic search and advertising practices.
Ahead, which is already owned by one private equity firm, will be acquired by Centerbridge Partners in conjunction with Berkshire Partners in a move it expects will provide the resources to grow its cloud-native application and services business.
The tech mogul’s London-based foundation has vacillated in focus in recent years, and now is being disbanded to direct funds to fighting the pandemic, Recode reported. Ellison has already dedicated Oracle resources to building a database that empowers researchers with up-to-the-minute data on drug treatments, but also has stirred controversy as a reported promoter of an unproven antimalarial drug to President Trump.
CrowdStrike’s mature product and proven track record in protecting large-scale Linux deployments for other cloud leaders made it a good fit to handle Zoom’s security needs, says CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz.
The investment is aimed at bringing SHI closer to technology developed by mLogica for migrating databases and applications to the cloud and for real-time ingestion and processing of big data and analytics.
‘I was watching the livestream and I was streaming myself, and I’m like, holy sh*t, this is incredible. Like the fact that they’re so aggressive with pricing like this, it blew us out of the water,’ one Nvidia system builder partner says of the major refresh opportunity the new GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards will create.
‘We provide an ecosystem integration software platform, and this platform allows for a number of use cases, specifically for supply chain companies in the area of eCommerce and omni-channel fulfillment,’ says Cleo President and CEO Mahesh Rajasekharan.
The long-running battle focusing on the military’s relationship with Amazon Web Services continued even after Amazon lost the potentially $10 billion enterprise cloud transformation contract to Microsoft, and launched its own challenge to the DoD’s procurement process.
“There‘s kind of a clash here between the culture of the tech industry and the culture of the needs of the government that we need to address, and make sure that the standards of the equipment that we’re making is up to the point where we can safely say, ‘On Election Day, all the votes will be counted and they’ll be accurate,’” Cybereason’s Allie Mellen tells CRNtv.
‘It’s not only increasing your profit margins and increasing the amount of work you’re doing with customers, but it’s also locking it in and strengthening your relationship with them,’ Actminds’ Fernando Zambroti says of the company’s white-label services for artificial intelligence and data science solutions.
VMware is ‘working directly with AWS’ to address issues stemming from channel partners saying AWS is swooping in on large channel-led VMware Cloud on AWS deals.
Lenovo is launching four new hyperconverged infrastructure product offerings tied to AMD EPYC processors, Microsoft Azure Stack, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software and VMware’s vSAN.
