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.
At VMware Explore, VMware’s channel leaders took stock of recent changes to channel enablement, and provided a brief road map as well.
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.
VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA is built on VMware Cloud Foundation, optimized for AI and will run fully secure Generative AI applications.
VMware sees this as a ‘new Tanzu’ and views its enhancements as fundamental to their multi-cloud story going forward.
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.
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.
CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.
Judy offers an enterprise-grade platform with seven separate solutions that are designed and priced for the SMB market.
The VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase and DataBase Engine combine to deliver on VAST’s long term plan of utilizing their storage technology for deep learning as well.
The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.
Splunk AI encompasses a set of design principles around machine learning, as well as a variety of new and expanded machine learning tools.
These new data management solutions include new Storage Arrays that make it easier for organizations to enable AI workloads.
The new collaboration will not be sold separately, but will be rolled into the existing offering around Rubrik and Microsoft Sentinel, meaning that partners will not have a new product to sell, but will have something new to show cutting edge capability to customers.
Zoho’s latest extension of their AI capabilities is powered by an OpenAI integration, although they are working on an in-house version of their own which will emphasize privacy concerns.
HPE’s emphasis on AI going forward was good news for Canonical, which is already strong in the area.
