‘This deal solves the two biggest challenges of VDI which is cost and complexity,’ says the CEO of a VDI company, who did not want to be identified. ‘It allows CDW to scale ServiceWorks up and down for hybrid work solutions like call centers where there is big elasticity in demand.’
A new report from Bloomberg says Nvidia has told partners that it doesn’t believe its $40 billion acquisition of Arm will close after facing stern pushback from regulators. At the same time, Arm’s current owner, Japan-based SoftBank Group, is reportedly considering the possibility of taking Arm public as an alternative. Spokespeople for Nvidia and SoftBank maintain that the blockbuster chip deal is still on.
Last year’s biggest news stories in the semiconductor industry included a mix of breakthroughs and setbacks for M&A deals, AMD reaching its highest market share since 2006 and big changes at Intel.
“You’re going to see us gaining and winning a lot of business in 2022 because we are the only ones in the market in mobile edge compute,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg says during the carrier’s Q4 2021 and year-end earnings call.
‘My career has been entirely focused on partners and specifically driving partner growth. I’ve worked in B2B software companies, and I’ve really dedicated my career to that. Datto’s alignment to be 100 percent through partners just aligns so perfectly to my background and my passion,’ says Datto Chief Marketing Officer Brooke Cunningham.
‘[Cisco’s] Silicon One is absolutely not in the same ballpark as Express 5 at all. We really feel this represents a brand-new entry within the market [and] we’re really excited about having real density leadership with this chip,’ says Juniper’s VP of Automated WAN Solutions Brendan Gibbs.
With 16,000 GPUs to support its ‘metaverse’ aspirations, Meta’s new AI Research SuperCluster will consist of 2,000 Nvidia DGX A100 systems, which will make it the ‘largest customer installation of Nvidia DGX A100 systems’ when it’s fully deployed later this year, according to Nvidia.
‘Digital workers may work at different hours with different devices and can access work anywhere, all the time. So enabling systems in a platform that allows them to be empowered to do the job on their time, the better work/life balance. That’s really the driver,’ says Tony Fischer, Microsoft alliance leader for Logicalis.
‘We’ve got to provide enablement to our partners to support our customers through that journey. So I’m putting in place a partner success team that will be that that bridge that looks at the end-to-end journey of the partner to provide that layer of support to the customer,’ says Rob Spee, BeyondTrust’s senior vice president of global channels.
‘We’re working on back-end manufacturing capability with the agility to figure out where we want to do the assembly of the SSDs. We have wafer supply coming out of China, and we’ll have wafer supply, a different technology, coming out of Korea. ... We work very closely with the governments to make sure we fully understand what we need to do and are maximizing the supply we can get for our customers,’ says Solidigm CEO Rob Crooke.
Startups and IT giants alike are among CRN’s 10 hottest companies offering tools for DevOps.
