These IoT startups are gaining momentum for solutions that range from advanced analytics and industrial data management to agentless device security and asset monitoring.
From taking on public cloud hyperscalers like AWS to creating an even “stronger” partnership with VMware after its spinoff from Dell, Dell Technologies President Bill Scannell dives into some of the hottest topics that channel partners need to know about.
Cisco spent the last year covering its bases when it came to bolstering its collaboration, security, cloud, and application businesses through acquisitions. Here are the 10 deals that Cisco has inked year over year.
‘With the acquisition of Turbonomic ... we will be able to help customers automate their entire enterprise with capabilities like robotic process automation (RPA), AIOps, ARM and process mining,’ writes Dinesh Nirmal, IBM general manager for cloud automation.
“We started working with a large, global financial institution customer six months ago. I said, ‘I think we can do this for about 40 percent less than if you go to AWS.’ When the study was completed, it was 48 percent less,” says Dell President Bill Scannell.
The carmaker and tech giant announce an agreement for AWS to serve as Ferrari’s official cloud, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) provider.
Startups with new approaches to mobile messaging and collaboration, security, productivity and device management are included on our list of 2021’s most notable mobile tech startups so far.
‘What’s more on the critical path of Sherweb’s success right now is just we’re zeroing down on our clients, what they need, what helps them grow and what helps them be successful,’ says Alain Brisson, chief operating officer of Sherweb.
The Series F financing boosts the company’s valuation over the $2 billion threshold as it looks to step up its competition with legacy database vendors.
Aisera, the producer of conversational AI and RPA tools. Eightfold.AI, which offers a way to manage the talent and skills of employees. And Soul Machines, creator of lifelike digital avatars. See who else made CRN’s annual list of the hottest AI startups of 2021 so far.
An issue with Akamai Technologies’ network took down or disrupted services for many global companies early Thursday, marking the second global content delivery network failure so far in June.
‘The big question is, who’s watching the watchers? With cybersecurity as part of Adnet, there is some risk. We’re an independent, audited, SOC 2-compliant MSP. But we realize there’s a relative amount of interdependence. For example, how can we do a good job auditing cybersecurity when we also do clients’ operations? We needed to be able to independently audit cybersecurity,’ says MachBlue Defense CEO Christopher Luise.
Clients are re-imagining their conference rooms for in-person and online meetings ‘to make those meetings inclusive rather than treating the remote team members as second-class employees,’ Luis Alvarez, CEO of Salinas, Calif.-based Microsoft partner Alvarez Technology Group, told CRN.
‘We are able to reverse-engineer OT protocols and use them thanks to help from Schneider Electric, Rockwell Automation, and Siemens. These three also use and sell our products. And it’s not just OT, but also IoT and IIoT. We protect everything in the four walls on the industrial side,’ says Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi.
The cloud service provider says the new class of virtual machines provides better performance and price-performance than Arm- and Intel-powered VMs from its top competitors. This is not the first time Google Cloud has chosen AMD over Intel for a new class of products. ‘With Tau VMs, Google Cloud has set a new bar for price-performance,’ says one Google Cloud consulting partner.
Here are 10 hot DevOps startups on the market today that are aiding the collaboration between developers and operators.
