The new SAP HANA customer edition on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake cloud service is a ‘massive opportunity’ for the HPE and SAP partner ecosystem, says HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Business Group General Manager Keith White.
SAP Senior VIce President Clay Caldwell expects the new customer edition of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s GreenLake cloud service to appeal to the “majority” of the SAP installed base. ”There is still a large segment of our customer population that would prefer to be in their own data center,” he said.
The semiconductor giant wants to avoid past mistakes that have resulted in product delays by taking a new approach to the way it designs chips, which has already resulted with what the company says is the ‘largest single intranode enhancement in its history’ that will significantly increase performance for Intel’s upcoming Tiger Lake processors. ‘The era of getting massive performance boost from simply shrinking transistor features is behind us,’ one architect says.
The worldwide PC market-share leader generated $13.3 billion in revenue during its first fiscal quarter, including a boost in data center revenue thanks to high demand for public cloud infrastructure.
From multiple discrete GPUs shipping within the next year to a historical intranode enhancement for Tiger Lake, the semiconductor giant made several new disclosures to show that it is investing in next-generation design methodologies to help it overcome manufacturing issues.
The e-commerce solution stemming from the acquisition of ATG in 2010 is failing to find traction in a crowded market for online retail platforms. Staff in Cambridge, Mass., and Ireland have already been let go, with employees bracing for more cuts.
‘Now all the courses have hands-on labs, and we also offer cloud playgrounds and cloud sandboxes for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud,’ says Katie Bullard, president of A Cloud Guru.
“The costs are so much harder to control [in public cloud],” said SAP Executive Vice President and Global Head of Enterprise Cloud Services Peter Pluim. “You blink, and you pay something to a hyperscaler. You move data for two seconds or you turn a bit on a hard disk with a hyperscaler, and you pay for it. If you have a very steady, even usage, [on-premises is a good option].”
‘The demand for customers to move to an Opex model and also just get rid of the whole hassle so they can focus on becoming agile and resilient and not have to worry about the IT side of it is enormous,’ says SAP Executive Vice President and Global Head of Enterprise Cloud Services Peter Pluim.
The cloud-focused solution provider is leveraging partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Salesforce to help customers rapidly exit their data centers and keep mission-critical apps running smoothly amid the global pandemic’s disruption.
The chip startup plans to bring its fast and power-efficient edge AI chips to the channel. ‘The advantage that we had was that we started with a clean sheet of paper and we built everything from the ground up to make an efficient AI edge computer,’ says Dinakar Munagala, a 12-year Intel veteran who is Blaize’s CEO and co-founder.
While admittedly late to the game with subscriptions, Avaya is making up for lost time, due in part to the global pandemic shifting IT decisions all over the globe, the vendor‘s longtime CEO Jim Chirico told CRN.
‘I think we’re going to blaze the trail that hopefully others can follow. I think it’s good for the market if the companies that serve that market have capital,’ SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson says.
The tech giant wants to shift its entire portfolio to a consumption-based model in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which Robbins says builds on the ‘significant transformation’ it has undergone as it focuses on software, services and subscriptions.
‘There‘s this tremendous market opportunity for Google Cloud partners,’ says Carolee Gearhart, Google Cloud’s vice president of worldwide channel sales and global SMB sales. ‘That’s really reflected in how the Google-related opportunities are going to increase.’
‘People in this industry are typically in call centers with hundreds of people. With COVID-19, it‘s hard to send these people to work from home. T2 Tech Group had the technology for work from home before the pandemic. So we will look to acquire or partner with other companies who need help with flexibility,’ says Kevin Torf, co-founder and managing partner of T2 Tech Group.
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