Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri talks about GreenLake’s pay-per-use sales momentum, AWS’ validation of the hybrid cloud on-premises cloud model, and the loss of Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona.
Here’s a deeper dive into this week’s blockbuster announcement that CRM application giant Salesforce will buy popular collaboration app provider Slack for nearly $28 billion.
‘If you look in the enterprise technology space, there are some providers who are competitor-focused,’ Jassy said. ‘They look at what their competitors are doing, and they try to fast-follow and one-up them. We have a competitor like that across the lake from us here in Washington.’
‘We saw strength in all geographies, with larger customers accelerating their digital transformations with NetApp,. We will continue to exploit competitive transitions, the growth of the all-flash market, and the accelerating shift to cloud to expand our leadership position,’ says NetApp CEO George Kurian.
The new fully managed, cloud-based offering, with an advanced analytics engine, makes it possible to run transaction processing and data analysis applications on the same database without the cost or complexity of using multiple systems.
Target wanted to move off Symantec due to dissatisfaction with how Symantec was treating them, and CrowdStrike deployed Falcon across their entire environment in less than 10 days, CEO George Kurtz said.
‘We know that customers have many options when it comes to cloud solutions, including backup and DR, and the acquisition of Actifio will help us to better serve enterprises as they deploy and manage business-critical workloads, including in hybrid scenarios,’ writes Brad Calder, Google vice president of engineering.
‘Houston is the largest hub in the United States,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri. ‘It is the most diverse city in the United States. It has a great college system. But the reality is the vast majority of innovation happens in Silicon Valley. I am very proud of the San Jose headquarters. Now we are going to create a similar [headquarters], but probably three to four times bigger in Houston because the number of employees there is much bigger.’
‘We think we are gaining share across the entire portfolio,’ says Neri in an interview with CRN. ‘We expect to gain share in switching and wireless LAN. We had high-single-digit growth year over year in switching, and we had 20 percent quarter-over-quarter growth in wireless LAN. We expect to gain share versus Cisco.’
‘With the company’s plans to introduce new EC2 instances featuring Gaudi for deep learning training, AWS will further reduce the cost of training AI datasets and lower total cost of operations for customers,’ an Intel exec says of the new EC2 instances, which AWS claims will have up to 40 percent better price-performance than Nvidia-based instances.
The agreement for the CRM application giant to buy the collaboration service provider sets up a competitive collision course with Microsoft and its Teams collaboration applications.
The platform security player is demoing two new ruggedized products to its FortiGate 60 next-generation firewall for SD-WAN series to address harsh IT environments with unique space, power, security, and environmental requirements.
For the first time in three years, the carrier has a channel chief at the helm of the recently formed Verizon Business Group: 20-year Verizon veteran and employee advocate Wendy Taccetta.
IT services and consulting giant Tata Consultancy Services will provide clients with solutions and services incorporating the PagerDuty platform, jointly developed by the two companies in a new solutions service center.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri talks about GreenLake’s pay-per-use sales momentum, AWS’ validation of the hybrid cloud on-premises cloud model, and the loss of Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona.
