Computacenter, Compugen, and Ingram Micro Canada won Cisco Canada’s contest to dream big about building AI-based solutions.
Artificial Intelligence
Partner shine in Cisco Canada Fast Future Innovation Awards around AI
by Robert Dutt •
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
NetApp CEO: We’ll bring AI to your data
by Robert Dutt •
To NetApp CEO George Kurian, the challenges around AI today resemble the challenges of the early days of the cloud, and the solution is the same, break down silos between systems and get data and AI applications closer together.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Partnerships
Major new HPE NVIDIA partnerships highlight HPE Discover
by Mark Cox •
NVIDIA makes scores of partnerships with other vendors, but the ones that were just announced at the HPE Discover event were of supreme importance for both companies heading forward.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs, Networking, Security
Splunk, Cisco lay out strategy for channel partners to thrive
by Mark Cox •
Cisco explained both how they are restructuring itself as well as re-energizing Splunk along the new business model Splunk adopted last year, and what this will all mean to channel partners.
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Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Channel Programs, Cloud
Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.
by Mark Cox •
At their Data Cloud Summit, with a freshly rebuilt channel leadership team, Snowflake elaborated on key elements of their new strategy and the steps they will encourage the channel to take to get there.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud
New Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy lays out vision for company’s future
by Mark Cox •
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, in his first Snowflake Data Cloud Summit as CEO, introduced himself to the large audience in his opening keynote, and discussed where he sees the company moving as it goes forward.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs
Splunk channel integration plans, AI era vs. Cloud era, and other Cisco Live notes
by Robert Dutt •
At its Cisco Live event, executives provide clues on their channel plans for their big new acquisition and discuss how this “era” in the industry will compare to the previous era.
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Artificial Intelligence
Cisco is ready for the AI era: Robbins
by Robert Dutt •
Kicking off the company’s Cisco Live event, Cisco chief Chuck Robbins said his company is much more ready for the AI era than it was for the cloud and offered his thoughts on the importance of culture and purpose in approaching AI.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs, Storage
New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives
by Mark Cox •
The extended partnership with Nutanix, which Dell will formally announce at a later date, was accompanied in Dell’s new channel related moves by other initiatives like a new Dell AI Partner Focused Network, and the addition of client to server and storage for partner of record status.
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Centre
Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future
by Mark Cox •
Last year, Dell Technologies World saw the company lay out its plan for its AI future. This year, the company made considerable progress, translating concepts into product, building out a much more detailed road map and rendering some things introduced last year obsolete.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Communities, Unified Communications
Genesys’ Canadian channel partners becoming increasingly strong growth component
by Mark Cox •
Over the past several years, Genesys has increased the partner share of their business, has broadened the type of partners they work with, and is now increasing its Canadian partner focus.
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Artificial Intelligence, Unified Communications
Genesys CEO Bates calls on customers to accelerate their future together
by Mark Cox •
Tony Bates laid out his vision for where Genesys and its technology is headed, which expands the existing layers of orchestration into a future that promises an industry that will be very different from today.
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Artificial Intelligence, Security
Palo Alto Networks country manager Daniel Roy sees strong position for company in Canada
by Mark Cox •
Roy became Palo Alto Networks’ new VP and Country Manager for Canada last fall, and discusses the direction in which the company is headed in Canada.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data Management, Software
Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company
by Mark Cox •
Conga has made a series of major strategic initiatives since their merger with Apptus, with the idea of making the two companies work better together, improving the culture and increasing customer revenue opportunities.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data Management, Software
More mature Conga channel strategy having success
by Mark Cox •
Conga discussed the evolution of their channel strategy with ChannelBuzz, while some channel partners indicated what they were looking to see around the Conga event.
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Artificial Intelligence
SAS continues emphasis on new trustworthy AI offerings with model cards, AI governance services, expanded Viya and offerings like Co-Pilot and SAS Data Maker
by Mark Cox •
SAS’s 2024 Innovate event saw SAS deliver a wide variety of solution sets around AI, many of which are available now, with a few coming later this year.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs
Expanded channel portfolio popular with SAS channel partners
by Mark Cox •
The additions to SAS’s product lineup, which will be enhanced later this year, gives partners new opportunities to address issues customers have been encountering and put together new solution sets for them.
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Artificial Intelligence
SAS introduces lightweight packaged AI models advances industry solutions with packaged AI models
by Mark Cox •
These tailored, lightweight AI models facilitate rapid deployment with low overhead, and are one of the more interesting solutions just announced by SAS.
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Security
Ivanti lays out product road map and strategy
by Mark Cox •
Srinivas Mukkamala, Ivanti’s Chief Product Officer, provided a detailed layout of what is changing on the Ivanti product front and when it will be happening.
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Security
Ivanti CEO emphasizes new findings from Ivanti’s research on the Everywhere Workplace
by Mark Cox •
Respondents to a survey conducted by Ivanti found that work flexibility was popular, but also made them more likely to do things that increased risk, and made it a lot harder to get IT support or access to a manager.
