With the hybrid workforce expected to continue into the future, ‘there is going to be an opportunity in connecting office printing and home printing,’ HP CEO Enrique Lores said.
Staff consulting and recruiting organization Robert Half Technology just released its Technology Salary Guide 2021 with a look at IT industry salaries as a way to help businesses trying to grow in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic while dealing with a shortage of engineers, analysts, administrators and managers.
‘The actors used EC2 just like they would use any server they could buy or use anywhere (on-premises or in the cloud). And, in fact, the actors did use several different service providers in this manner,’ AWS tells CRN.
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‘We believe that where telecom companies implement an Open RAN strategy solution versus a proprietary solution they are looking at about a 25 percent reduction in total cost of ownership,’ says HPE Senior Vice President Phil Mottram. ‘That’s the kind of magnitude of savings that can be driven by a (telecom) operator if they take a more open approach.’
VARs accounted for just over half of Zscaler’s revenue in the quarter ended Jan. 31, up from the high 40-percent range in previous quarters as the fast-growing cloud security vendor pushes downmarket.
Tighter integrations between MongoDB’s next-generation database and GCP services like BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are expected to generate opportunities for systems integrators and ISV partners.
SolarWinds says the money will be put toward security initiatives as well as used to cover higher costs around both insurance and professional fees stemming from the massive cyberattack.
‘It’s an exciting opportunity for Extreme to leapfrog some of the older technologies that are out there … We’re calling for double-digit growth in enterprise in the first half of this calendar year. If you compare us to other vendors, I’m not sure you’re seeing that with other providers in the industry,’ Extreme Networks CEO Ed Meyercord tells CRN.
‘I believe that in this fiscal year our customers will accelerate their investment in digital transformation with renewed confidence of economic recovery. They will be increasingly confident in their ability to deploy new vendors, new systems and software, into new use cases, and Pure will be high on their list,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo.
Jensen Huang says AI is having its ‘smartphone moment’ for every industry. ‘All of these industries, whether you’re in medical imaging or in lawn mowers, you’re going to have data centers that are hosting your products, just like the [cloud service providers],’ he says of Nvidia’s new milestone in the company’s latest earnings.
‘I do wonder whether AWS has made a judgment error in not coming out to publicly defend their position in this high-profile case with such far reaching consequences,’ says Karl Robinson of AWS partner Logicata.
Nutanix’s new CEO Rajiv Ramaswami unveils his top four priorities as the company reports $346 million in total revenue during its second quarter earnings report on Wednesday.
Microsoft will expand its strategy of marketing packages of cloud-related services and products to particular business verticals, with new packages aimed at three additional industries.