At their virtualized Global Forum, SAS also previewed their upcoming Viya 4 release.
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud
SAS looks with pride on pandemic record and to future with multiple new partnerships
by Mark Cox •
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud
SAS and Microsoft team up on cloud analytics
by Robert Dutt •
SAS will select Azure as the preferred cloud platform, and the two companies will look for ways to embed SAS’ analytics offerings through Microsoft’s stack.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Zycada launches with bot solution to make e-commerce sites faster than Amazon
by Mark Cox •
Zycada is still in direct proof of concept selling, but plans to build out a channel of both MSPs and VARs.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Automation Anywhere addresses business resilience issues with new RPA announcements
by Mark Cox •
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends towards automation, but now that much of the work of responding to the new work situations is created has been done, Automation Anywhere looked to future issues around workplace resiliency at their virtualized customer event.
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Artificial Intelligence, Networking
Aruba introduces new Aruba ESP Edge Services Platform
by Mark Cox •
In addition to the new AI-powered ESP platform with predictive capabilities, Aruba has enhanced their Aruba Central network management to provide unified single pane of glass management, at scale.
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Artificial Intelligence, Servers
Dell unveils new Dell EMC Ready solutions to spur AI in VMware environments
by Mark Cox •
The channel will be the primary seller of these new solutions, which leverage the Bitfusion technology VMware acquired last year, and which has now been incorporated into vSphere.
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Artificial Intelligence, Networking
CommScope announces new AI-powered RUCKUS Analytics cloud service
by Mark Cox •
The new RUCKUS Analytics service, which supports on-prem as well as public and private clouds, adds new capabilities around prioritizing incidents, troubleshooting and health monitoring, compared to what was offered before.
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ServiceNow adds Now Intelligence analytics to its platform with Orlando release
by Mark Cox •
Now Intelligence consists of both new and enhanced features around the AI and analytics theme, in the same way some past releases have emphasized the enhancement of a related series of capabilities.
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Artificial Intelligence, Software
Conga enhances Digital Document Transformation Suite with new AI and automation features
by Mark Cox •
Conga kicks off their annual customer event in Orlando with a broad refresh of their solution set.
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Artificial Intelligence, Storage
WekaIO launches first partner program to scale out high-perfomance parallel file system business
by Mark Cox •
WekaIO, which today is also announcing a first-place finish for performance in the IO-500 Challenge, is looking to its new program’s enablement resources to drive partner expansion in specific verticals.
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Artificial Intelligence, Channel Programs, Security
DataVisor launches channel program around unsupervised machine learning fraud detection solution
by Mark Cox •
DataVisor has a differentiated unsupervised machine learning solution, with the initial Go-to-Market being focused on systems integrators and strategic vendor partners.
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Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Security
BlackBerry Cylance looking to MSP business, new products to help drive 2020 growth
by Mark Cox •
It has been an eventful year for Cylance, following its acquisition by BlackBerry. May Mitchell talks with ChannelBuzz about the year coming to a close, and what to look for next year.
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Artificial Intelligence, Big Data
SAS Toronto event focuses on overcoming hurdles to successful customer AI projects
by Mark Cox •
SAS partners played a bigger role than ever in the event this year, as SAS continues to move beyond its legacy direct sales days and invest more in its channel.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Storage
SwiftStack upgrades platform for Big Data and advanced machine learning with SwiftStack 7
by Mark Cox •
Both the enhancements to the core platform and services around it have a strong emphasis on increasing performance and AI at the edge.
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Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things
Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada use cases to enhance edge capabilities
by Mark Cox •
The enhancements include new Lumada data services, an intelligent data lake offering, a new version of Pentaho 9.0, and an emphasis on expanding Lumada beyond the industrial IoT use cases that have been its main base.
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Artificial Intelligence, Security, Software
Titus leverages AI, containers in new Titus Accelerator for Privacy
by Mark Cox •
Titus believes their new privacy solution will make it easier for partners to have broader conversations with customers than in the past.
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Artificial Intelligence, Software, Training
Skillsoft, SAP SuccessFactors launch new collaboration around next-gen Percipio platform
by Mark Cox •
Skillsoft’s Percipio platform, which will be available for SAP SuccessFactors in four different bundles, provides a modern approach to curating content, and will be of value to channel partners helping customers with digital transformation strategies.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
AWS brings messaging around modern innovation to Toronto
by Mark Cox •
In addition to discussing the changing nature of innovation today, AWS Vice President Sandy Carter also reminded her CIO audience of an unchanging theme AWS keeps making, that many more Windows applications run on their platform than on Azure.
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Artificial Intelligence, Partnerships, Storage
Pure Storage deepens AI expertise with product, partnership announcements
by Mark Cox •
Pure is announcing both the doubling of FlashBlade to 150 blades, an expansion of AIRI with the AI Data Hub, aimed at end-to-end use cases beyond simply training AI, and AIRI-as-a-Service, which will be delivered by Pure partner Core Scientific.
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HPE enhances AI portfolio with container-based HPE ML Ops solution
by Mark Cox •
HPE extends the BlueData technology they acquired last year with a new solution that introduces a DevOps-like process to accelerate AI deployments.
