Kelly Teal

3 days ago | channelfutures.com | Kelly Teal

The global data center landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift, with hyperscale operators now commanding nearly half of the world’s total capacity — a figure that’s only set to grow. That assessment comes this week from Synergy Research Group. The analyst firm tracks data center capacity every quarter, looking at growth across regions, countries and metropolitan areas.

4 days ago | channelfutures.com | Kelly Teal

Check out notable developments across the cloud and IT channel landscape already this week. This week already is bringing some notable developments across the cloud computing and IT channel landscape. First up, there’s a new boss in town over at Amazon Web Services partner ClearScale. Next, indie cloud vendor Vultr has some big funding news. The infusion comes as organizations experience growing concern over hyperscaler lock-in.

5 days ago | channelfutures.com | Kelly Teal

IBM is making a high-stakes play to cement its leadership in the convergence of SaaS and AI, while keeping partners at the heart of its strategy. Recall that, earlier this year, Big Blue finalized the $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp. That deal combined IBM’s automation software with HashiCorp’s infrastructure automation. IBM is counting on HashiCorp’s tools, including Terraform and Vault, to automate and secure hybrid cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.

1 week ago | channelfutures.com | Kelly Teal

Salesforce prices are going up. Mandated Agentforce bundling also is kicking in as Salesforce touts AI as “a strategic imperative.”This week, the CRM vendor wrote in a blog that it’s increasing the costs of Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service and select Industries Clouds. Expect an average 6% increase in those costs. Salesforce said there are no planned changes for pricing for Salesforce Foundations, Starter or Pro Editions.

1 week ago | channelfutures.com | Kelly Teal

With VCF 9.0's focus on supporting modern workloads, “we’ve fundamentally shifted the operator and developer experience to make it frictionless, simple and scalable,” said Broadcom's VP of product marketing.