Artificial Intelligence

Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry

Intel CEO announced the creation of Intel Foundry, which with Intel Products now becomes two symbiotic parts of Intel, and also announced a new partnership with Arm, which Intel said is now their most important.

Prosimo strengthens multi-cloud network stack with Generative AI and Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking

Prosimo’s AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking closely resembles their core product that the startup has sold the last few years, Multi-Cloud Networking for AI ,has been beefed up with the addition of Generative AI, while the other suite component, Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking, is new with this release.

Infoblox strengthens DNA capability of BloxOne Threat Defense with new SOC Insights solution

SecOps Insights extends DNS capability to the InfoBloxThreat Defense platform, a move that InfoBlox says has strong appeal to customers and will make it easier for partners to keep them for life.

D&H Distributing seeing strong new opportunities in evolving tech economy

Rapidly growing opportunities in AI are part of the reason for success in the last year and hope in the next, but more traditional areas like SMB and MSPs have also been doing well.

Aim Security raises $10M to secure Generative AI enterprise adoption

Aim Security harmonizes the use of generative AI within security environments, something that security vendors have not been doing, and which leaves customer security vulnerable as a result.

Intel heralds revolutionary impact of new Intel Core Ultra and Xeon 5th Gen processors

Intel’s two new processors have been trumpeted by the company for months, and they are still emphasizing the massive impact that their AI will have on both, and what customers will be able to do with them.

Zoho Canadian business survey shows surprising optimism with 74% seeing growth over next six months

The optimism reflects an environment today where businesses that have survived the turmoil of the last several years see new opportunities from the impact of Generative AI within traditional collaboration systems.

Trend Micro strengthens Vision One platform with launch of Trend Companion generative AI tool

Trend Companion helps security analysts understand the meaning of alerts faster to better triage them, which is of critical importance in an environment where minutes matter.

HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions

HPE emphasized that Generative AI requires an architecture which is fundamentally different and more powerful than cloud-native architecture, and they unveiled it, along with related AI-native offerings.

HPE, NVIDIA expand strategic partnership with new enterprise computing solution for Generative AI

The new joint solution is designed as a turnkey solution for enterprises who don’t want to develop their own AI models.

Moovila sees strong opportunity for MSPs with their automated project and resource management solution

Moovila showed off their automated Perfect Project solution at the recent IT Nation Connect event, offering MSPs a project management solution that overcomes the traditional limitations of such solutions that require significant human intervention.

ConnectWise highlights Robotic Process Automation within the evolution of their Asio platform

ConnectWise thinks adding ConnectWise RPA to Asio will be a really big deal, although they also announced a new Asio workflow automation capability, and 18 new Asio services.

ConnectWise creates Generative AI-based companion for technology providers with ConnectWise Sidekick

Sidekick is a bot that is currently available for ConnectWise PSA, although the number of solutions supported will expand over time, providing much stronger AI capabilities than ConnectWise was able to offer before.

VMware emphasizes growth of Generative AI ecosystem and partnerships at VMware Explore Barcelona

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.

Kubernetes automation platform startup PerfectScale launches first channel program

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.

NetApp introduces ASA C-Series family with capacity flash for top performance at near disk cost

NetApp to launch new partner hub

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 reaches out to ISV ecosystem to design new AI use cases with AI PC Acceleration Program

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.