VMware announced new collaborations focused on the Private AI they introduced earlier this year at VMware Explore Las Vegas, with long-time partners Intel and IBM being the big two, as well as a third with IBM spinoff Kyndryl.
PerfectScale’s platform, which uses machine learning to remove the bloat that developers around Kubernetes, works with all Kubernetes systems, and the program is designed to assist a broad range of partner types.
Other enhancements to the NetApp storage portfolio include enhancements to NetApp Keystone Storage-as-a-Service.
The digital portal allows partners to track deals and register opportunities, and while the previous program has something similar, NetApp’s channel chief says that this one is better.
Intel is looking to the new program as a key part of their PC AI Go-to-Market strategy, to turn Intel’s new AI technology innovations into an extremely broad portfolio of use cases.
The integration of the existing OpenText program with the acquired assets from Micro Focus makes the new channel more diverse, and includes features like the OpenText Aviator Thrust program for Partners, to enable partners to build solutions with OpenText Cloud API services.
Barrenechea also announced OpenText Aviator, the event’s feature announcement, which brings distinctive new AI capabilities to OpenText’s Business Cloud.
While Okta’s increased emphasis on Generative AI was the principal theme of their recent customer and partner event, motivating and equipping partners to double down with Okta on this journey was also critical.
The highlight was Okta AI – AI for Identity, which is not a product per se, but a comprehensive set of AI features and capabilities that enable many of the other new offerings on Okta’ clouds they announced at the event.
Alteryx looks to build on the momentum in the Generative AI space it built earlier this year when it was in the vanguard of actually getting product into general availability.
A new family of Generative AI solutions, Now Assist, is the headliner here, but Vancouver also includes many other announcements, especially around security.
Gelsinger combined his vision for the company’s future with new announcements and the short and medium term road map to highlight the extensive changes coming, particularly from the rise of AI.
Intel’s announcements at their just-concluded Intel Innovation Forum included new Core Ultra processors, formerly known as Meteor Lake, which are a key part of what Intel highlighted as a major AI PC initiative that should appeal to a broad range of partners.
Lenovo, which is in attendance at the Intel Innovation 2023 event here in San Jose, made a very significant announcement of their own, beefing up their AI portfolio on multiple fronts at an event where AI was centre stage.
The solution, Octavia, is in the early stages of beta, and will eventually launch with both a full featured enterprise version and a free version which will not have all of the enterprise features.
SAS is not only doubling down on its reseller channel, but its strategic vendor channel as well, extending partnerships to strengthen their mutual position in Generative AI and other advanced use cases.
Generative AI, with its focus on content creation, is particularly well suited to marketing and, responsibly managed, can enhance all aspects of the marketing process.
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.
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.
NVIDIA is the third member of this collaboration, which brings multiple new turnkey Generative AI and multi-cloud solutions to market.
