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SAS looks to speed up application development and show customers Generative AI value with two new SaaS offerings

September 13, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAS looks to speed up application development and show customers Generative AI value with two new SaaS offerings
SAS Viya Workbench is a lightweight development environment to execute code quickly and efficiently in a cloud-native, efficient and secure environment. SAS App Factory is a rapid application development productivity framework for creating fit AI-driven applications.

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SAS doubles down on reseller channel by signing TD SYNNEX as first global distribution partner

September 13, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on SAS doubles down on reseller channel by signing TD SYNNEX as first global distribution partner
SAS has used EIS before for the government business in the U.S., and has also just added Carahsoft to further serve this market, but TD SYNNEX is their first distributor who will handle most of their partners rather than having SAS deal with them direct, in a relationship that will see channel-only offerings from SAS come to market.

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Lenovo, VMware extend strategic partnership around new Generative AI solutions

August 30, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo, VMware extend strategic partnership around new Generative AI solutions
NVIDIA is the third member of this collaboration, which brings multiple new turnkey Generative AI and multi-cloud solutions to market.

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VMware partner leadership takes stock of changes since new partner program rollout in March

August 28, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware partner leadership takes stock of changes since new partner program rollout in March
At VMware Explore, VMware’s channel leaders took stock of recent changes to channel enablement, and provided a brief road map as well.

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VMware Canadian Country Manager Claude Reeves reviews market and impact of Explore announcements

August 25, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware Canadian Country Manager Claude Reeves reviews market and impact of Explore announcements
With more than one full year under his belt leading VMware Canada, Reeves gave his take on the company’s positioning in Canada and what the major announcements will mean for Canadian customers and partners.

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VMware, NVIDIA partnership around VMware Private AI Foundation highlights VMware Generative AI push

August 23, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware, NVIDIA partnership around VMware Private AI Foundation highlights VMware Generative AI push
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is built on VMware Cloud Foundation, optimized for AI and will run fully secure Generative AI applications.

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VMware expands Tanzu Application Platform with new Tanzu Application Engine and enhanced multi-cloud options

August 23, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware expands Tanzu Application Platform with new Tanzu Application Engine and enhanced multi-cloud options
VMware sees this as a ‘new Tanzu’ and views its enhancements as fundamental to their multi-cloud story going forward.

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Black Kite announces three new features that better automate cyber-ecosystem risk compliance

August 16, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Black Kite announces three new features that better automate cyber-ecosystem risk compliance
The innovations, which are all free add-ons to Black Kite’s platform, include the ability to parse using a cyber-specific database rather than the general Internet, with parsing of data specific to individual companies coming very soon.

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Nutanix targets Generative AI newcomer market with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box

August 15, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix targets Generative AI newcomer market with Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
The new offering adds an Opinionated AI stack and related services to Nutanix’s infrastructure and storage stacks, and the company believes it will find a good reception from the SMB to the enterprise.

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CrushBank adds new Generative AI capabilities to their knowledge management platform

August 14, 2023 Mark Cox Comments Off on CrushBank adds new Generative AI capabilities to their knowledge management platform
CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.