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2021 Most Influential Executive Arvind Krishna: ‘I Bleed Blue’
by Steven Burke
The progress Arvind Krishna has made in transforming IBM into a hybrid cloud-AI powerhouse with a renewed focus on partners, innovation and growth has made him the No. 1 Most Influential Executive on CRN’s 2021 Top 100 Executives list.
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AWS Maintains Lead As Q2 Enterprise Cloud Spending Tops $40B: Synergy Research
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Some of the other cloud providers are growing at very healthy rates, but Amazon is proving to be an extremely tough competitor,’ Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale writes in a new report.
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Atos Looks To Sell Data Center, Communications To Focus On Cloud, Security: Report
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The problem is that with the very strong move to cloud and the accelerating move to cloud that we described several times, this infrastructure is being underutilized much faster than the ability to consolidate those data centers. So there is here as well a very strong case for joining forces with partners to fill, if you like, those data centers and this infrastructure. So there is a very clear case and business rationale behind all that,’ says Elie Girard, Atos CEO and director.
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Google Cloud Now A ‘RISE With SAP’ Strategic Cloud Partner
by Donna Goodison
The expanded partnership will broaden the availability of SAP services available on Google Cloud and customer opportunities for both companies’ partners.
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Big Data Tech Developer HVR Expands Channel Program, Partner Go-To-Market Resources
by Rick Whiting
HVR is seeing growing demand for its data replication technology as it works with solution providers and systems integrators on large-scale cloud migration and business transformation projects.
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Atos Acquiring Visual BI With Eye On Business Intelligence, Cloud Analytics
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We are seeing increasing demand by clients to provide a wider breadth of services. Visual BI brings enhancements to our scale. For example, it brings us and Atos SAP cloud data analytics, the Snowflake relationship, and new business intelligence capabilities. We’ve have these already, but not at scale. Visual BI will help increase our scale,’ says Todd Truesdell, managing director of Atos’ Maven Wave.
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Microsoft To Enhance Dynamics 365 With Planned Suplari Acquisition
by Wade Tyler Millward
“Today’s announcement also signals our continued commitment to enabling organizations to move beyond transactional financial management to proactive operations that enhance decision making, mitigate risks, and reduce supplier costs through our data-first approach,” Frank Weigel, Microsoft’s vice president of Dynamics 365 Insights Product Group, said in a blog post Wednesday.
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Alphabet Earnings: Google Cloud Revenue Climbs 54 Percent To $4.63B
by Donna Goodison
‘Our innovative products, focused go-to-market strategy and growing ecosystem are driving our momentum,’ Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai says.
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Google Vows Stability For Newly Designated Enterprise APIs
by Donna Goodison
‘They are governed by a strict set of requirements about how and when we can make changes to them,’ says Kripa Krishnan, vice president of Google Cloud and technical infrastructure. ‘We make it really hard to cause breaking changes in these APIs that would require our customers to do work.’
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Cloud Contact Center And UCaaS: Better Together Or Best Of Breed?
by Gina Narcisi
Channel partners agree that cloud contact center is one of the hottest areas in IT right now. What isn’t clear is whether a best of breed approach, or a single vendor for all CCaaS and UCaaS needs is the way to go.
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Rackspace Laying Off 10 Percent Of Workforce, With Offshore Plans For Most
by Joseph F. Kovar
Rackspace at the same time is restructuring and hiring to shift its focus towards faster-growing product and services offerings, particularly new cloud services focused on cloud migration, elastic engineering, cloud-native application development, security, and other initiatives.
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AllCloud’s Integress Acquisition ‘Bringing Together’ Expertise In AWS, Salesforce, Snowflake
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘They attracted us from the perspective of actually bringing together a lot of what we‘ve been seeing in the front and back office converging,’ Gil says. ‘The AWS and the Salesforce customer base are seeking assistance in the world of data warehousing, analysis and visualization.’
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Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine Brings Interoperability, Power Of BigQuery To Industry Data
by Donna Goodison
‘Healthcare Data Engine will help unlock the potential for clients to lower operational costs, drive innovation and realize deeper patient engagement, resulting in better outcomes for patients,’ says Gretchen Peters, healthcare practice lead at Maven Wave, a Google Cloud implementation partner for the new offering.
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Google Cloud’s Looker Gets Microsoft Azure Support, Other New Features
by Donna Goodison
‘The new Looker development portal enables developers to focus entirely on deriving insights from an organization’s data estate, creating new value from those golden nuggets while relieving them of repetitive development activities,’ says Paul Lewis, chief technology officer at Pythian Services, Google Cloud’s 2020 Specialization Partner of the Year for Data Management.
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