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Lenovo To Acquire Infinidat In Huge AI Storage Play

Jan 17, 2025 | crnfrance.fr | O’Ryan Johnson |Joseph Kovar

Infinidat, valued at more than $1 billion in 2017, was founded by former EMC star Moshe Yanai. Technology powerhouse Lenovo Thursday said it had signed a definitive agreement to buy Israel-based Infinidat, a privately held developer of high-performance storage technology that was founded in 2011 and has been growing market share among enterprise customers.
Cognizant Ties AI Agents From Multiple Apps For Scale, Autonomous Operations

Jan 17, 2025 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar

‘It's just so obvious that these AI agents need to be connected. There are disparate but related tasks you need to do, and now these agents can actually collaborate and make them happen, which means that a lot of the silos that exist in our human-only-driven organizations can be broken now that we have agents that can semi-autonomously coordinate and work on your behalf,’ says Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s CTO of AI.
Veeam CEO On Latest $2B Funding Round, Cohesity-Veritas Merger, Rubrik IPO And Data Resilience

Dec 5, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar

The other big data resiliency industry news in 2024 was Rubrik’s IPO. How has that affected the data management and data resilience industry? It hasn’t. I think the Rubrik IPO probably brings even more visibility into the importance of data resilience. Every company, regardless of size, needs to have a data resilience plan and a data resilience posture. IPOs like Rubrik’s create significant attention, which is a good thing for the entire industry.
AWS Cloud Services Play: CDW Acquires Mission Cloud Services

Dec 3, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar

'As an AWS Premier Tier Partner, we are strategically positioned to help CDW's extensive customer network embrace and accelerate building on AWS and optimize their technology investments and AI-driven innovation,’ says Mission Cloud founder and CEO Simon Anderson. IT solution provider heavyweight CDW Monday said it has acquired Mission Cloud Services in a move to expand its partnership with Amazon Web Services.
Arcserve CEO on Cohesity-Veritas, AI, ‘100 per cent partner model’

Nov 19, 2024 | channelweb.co.uk | Joseph Kovar

Can we also expect more development from Arcserve on its stand-alone software? We recently did a release of our ShadowProtect software, which is a bit more focused on our MSP partner base. In that offering, we built out a bunch of additional connectors so users could pull from an updated data set in different locations. That was a more minor release than UDP 10, but something that again came from listening to customers, listening to partners, and meeting them where they are.
ScanSource CEO Mike Baur talks reorganisation, acquisitions and why he’s bullish about growth

Nov 11, 2024 | channelweb.co.uk | Joseph Kovar

We're coming up pretty soon on 2025. What's your strategic priority for the year? We've given a plan for the year that, again, suggests at the midpoint that we'll have flat to modest growth, but will be very profitable and generate free cash flow. And we want to make sure that we're in position, though, for the future.
Supermicro CEO: Ready To Grow As Nvidia Ramps Blackwell Production

Nov 7, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar

‘We are asking Nvidia every day [about Blackwell availability]. So I hope their production can go smoothly and go for high volume very soon. And once they have achieved availability, our solutions are fully ready,’ says Supermicro President and CEO Charles Liang.
Eight MSPs Dish On Their Most Exciting AI Projects

Nov 5, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | CJ Fairfield |Joseph Kovar |Wade Millward

Executives with 3rd Element Consulting, ABM Technology Group, eCreek IT Solutions and others share how they are working with AI. Meeting transcriptions, meeting summarizations and creating better data-informed forms are among the more exciting, consequential projects some solution providers are working on in the emerging artificial intelligence space. That’s according to eight solution provider executives surveyed by CRN reporters at CRN parent The Channel Company’s XChange NexGen 2024.
MSP Execs: KPIs, Metrics Key To MSP Growth, Eventual Sale

Nov 5, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar

‘KPIs reduce risk. It's going to give you higher figures supported by those better opportunities, and it's going to indicate potential issues. If you're driving less than 15 percent EBITDA, you're at risk of losing a big client. If you're driving more than 25 percent, they might think you're overpriced, that it would be hard to sustain if someone buys you. A lot of your metrics will tell other organizations how you are running as a business,’ says Brett Jaffe, president and COO of MSP+.
10 Of The Hottest Products And Services For MSPs In 2024

Nov 5, 2024 | crnfrance.fr | Joseph Kovar |CJ Fairfield |Wade Millward

airSlate 1-click Custom Documents airSlate develops business document technology that lets businesses electronically edit documents, create PDFs, build e-signature forms, and do advanced document generation, said Jared Weiner (right in photo), partner account manager for the Brookline, Mass.-based company. “So basically, at the end of the day, we can handle any businesses document needs,” Weiner told CRN.