Chip shortages will persist for the rest of the year, according to AMD CEO Lisa Su, but the company was able to improve supply enough to beat revenue expectations in the second quarter, where the company nearly doubled its sales from the same period last year. AMD now believes it ‘can continue to grow substantially as we go into the second half of this year and into 2022 with the supply chain,’ Su said on the company’s latest earnings call.
Acquisitions in the IoT security space, major IoT product launches and a big partnership for Intel were among the top news stories in the IoT market for the year so far.
All of Apple’s product lines saw double-digit revenue growth during its latest quarter, but products such as the iPad and iPhone could be more severely impacted by component shortages during the current quarter, Apple executives said Tuesday.
The PC maker plans to offer Teradici’s software for enabling high-performance remote computing—including with solutions such as Windows 365—as demand for hybrid work solutions grows.
The growth of the Internet of Things market means an incoming, perpetually expanding flood of data, which creates all sorts of big new problems that can translate into big new opportunities for solution providers. CRN talks to executives at three vendors working in IoT, edge computing and AI about the different kinds of software and systems that can help organizations make sense out of all the IoT data they’re collecting.
The company has been bringing a stronger focus on emerging business lines such as security, and the investments have been paying off, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during the company’s quarterly call with analysts on Tuesday.
CRN takes a look at some of the biggest stories involving Oracle this year so far. One executive at an Oracle partner says the company‘s aggressive push into cloud services across public, private and edge has made the tech giant “an increasingly popular choice” for its hybrid cloud users.
‘We also have inside sales and sales reps pitching Metallic to customers. Our customer renewal specialists also talk with customers about Metallic. Metallic is becoming very much entrenched in our partner community. Over 90-plus-plus percent of Metallic sales go through the channel. Metallic is almost exclusively a channel product,’ says Commvault CFO Brian Carolan.
‘Nobody can do what Jay [Parikh] does better. He is one of the few people in the world who has architected, built, and operated cloud infrastructure at massive scale,’ says Lacework Co-CEO David Hatfield.
Neveen Awad, managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, describes how women often carve out different paths to success compared with their male counterparts and how women can overcome the challenges they face along the way.
The semiconductor giant is promising a return to ‘process performance leadership’ by 2025 with a new roadmap that is shaking up node naming conventions, full of new technologies and gaining the support of one major competitor.
The top executives of ePlus have been with the company an average of about 20 years each, giving the IT solution provider and managed service provider a stable leadership team. CRN looks at how those executives were compensated.
‘While each company must make its own decision on whether to pay the ransom, Kaseya decided after consultation with experts to not negotiate with the criminals who perpetrated this attack and we have not wavered from that commitment,’ according to a statement on Kaseya’s website.
‘They are governed by a strict set of requirements about how and when we can make changes to them,’ says Kripa Krishnan, vice president of Google Cloud and technical infrastructure. ‘We make it really hard to cause breaking changes in these APIs that would require our customers to do work.’
Acquisitions in the IoT security space, major IoT product launches and a big partnership for Intel were among the top news stories in the IoT market for the year so far.
