‘As we‘ve been talking to our customers and partners, they talk about how strong the Intel brand is and that they want to see us use it more to their advantage — to be louder, to be more vocal — and we have the 12th most valuable brand on the planet, and frankly it’s only going to get better and stronger,’ Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus says in her Intel Partner Connect keynote.
While higher unemployment and workforce up-skilling are expanding the IT candidate pool, employers are finding many applicants do not possess the right technical skills and experience or the desired soft skills, according to the staffing company.
CRN dives deep into the details of Intel’s NAND SSD divestiture, how it will help SK Hynix, which Intel products it will impact and what it means for Intel’s Optane business.
“The acquisition of 128 Technology will enable Juniper to accelerate in a key area where we are seeing enormous success – the AI-driven enterprise,” said Juniper CEO Rami Rahim.
‘Two decades ago, Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet,’ the lawsuit states. ‘That Google is long gone. The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet and one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, with a market value of $1 trillion and annual revenue exceeding $160 billion.’
Vista Equity Partners Co-Founder and President Brian Sheth, who has served on the Datto board since the MSP platform provider was acquired by Vista three years ago, has given up his board seat.
“The biggest thing about Laurie is she had the biggest heart in the world,” said Dasher Technologies Chief Technology Officer Chris Saso, who met Laurie in the early nineties and was employee No. 4 at Dasher. “Laurie was always looking out for others. Laurie was passionate about the Dasher family. She built a business family that was like her personal family. She took so much pride and joy in that. She was the heart and soul of the company”
OCI is at a tipping point, Deloitte’s Jeff Davis tells CRN. The tech giant’s public cloud delivers unprecedented performance for industrial-grade workloads at lower costs, but a lot of customers have made up their minds as to their cloud transformation strategies.
The billionaire CEO and Vista Equity founder is under threat of indictment for the next 1,804 days if he strays from his seven-page agreement with federal prosecutors, even as his portfolio company Datto prepares to launch an IPO on Wednesday.
‘We should absolutely have the construct of this program [be] a reflection of the partners’ business models, not ours,’ says Eric Thompson, Intel’s general manager of global partner enablement, of the new unified channel program that’s set to launch in January.
NetApp is continuing to enhance its technologies for melding on-premises and cloud-based data into a single data fabric with new enhancements to its Ontap data management platform, Keystone services platform, SolidFire software-defined storage, and entry-level all-flash arrays.
As demand for data center services continue to grow despite the COVID-19 pandemic, startup Prime Data Centers is breaking ground on a new facility in Santa Clara, California.
The deal means Intel is getting out of the NAND SSD business while retaining its Intel Optane products. ‘For Intel, this transaction will allow us to further prioritize our investments in differentiated technology where we can play a bigger role in the success of our customers and deliver attractive returns to our stockholders,’ CEO Bob Swan says.
As Big Blue prepares to spin out its GTS consulting business, CEO Arvind Krishna says greater investment is coming in hybrid cloud. ‘We are certain on our directions even in these uncertain times,’ Krishna tells investors.
Strategic service provider plans to leverage the expertise from its AWS systems development and integration services to add value to its managed services for AWS customers.
Longtime Webroot channel chief Charlie Tomeo is leaving the company, but as of yet there is no word of where the veteran channel executive will go next.
Of the 24 companies on our watch list this quarter, 16 recorded stock price increases in the third quarter with eight recording stock price declines – including four by double-digit percentages. Take a look at whose shares managed to hold their value and which ones took the biggest losses.
In its most recent quarter, Intel’s Nonvolatile Solutions Group, which includes the chipmaker’s SSD products and Intel Optane memory modules, grew 76 percent to $1.7 billion.
While higher unemployment and workforce up-skilling are expanding the IT candidate pool, employers are finding many applicants do not possess the right technical skills and experience or the desired soft skills, according to the staffing company.
