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Microsoft Reports ‘Blowout’ Quarter As Azure Revenue Surges 50 Percent
by Kyle Alspach
The company’s financial report for its fiscal Q2 crushed Wall Street expectations, with major growth from Azure, Office 365 and Xbox.
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Xerox To ‘Stand Up’ Software, Finance, Innovation Businesses This Year
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘We are positioned to return to growth in 2021 and expand into new markets. We plan to stand up three separate businesses: software, financing and innovation by 2022 to provide greater focus, flexibility, and visibility,’ says Xerox CEO John Visentin.
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Cisco Catalyst 8000 Edge Line: Now With 5G
by Gina Narcisi
‘I see Cisco focusing on high-speed technology and connectivity, with a layer of security,’ a Cisco partner tells CRN regarding the Catalyst portfolio updates.
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Google Cloud Unveils New BeyondCorp Zero Trust Security Platform
by Donna Goodison
‘Google has built a reputation and a pedigree of sharing and bringing to market the champagne that they drink in-house,’ says Arun Perinkolam, Deloitte Consulting’s Google Cloud cyber practice leader.
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Verizon Outage Compounds Zoom, Gmail Issues Across Northeast
by Gina Narcisi
An outage on the Verizon network caused issues for teleworkers and students across the Northeast on Tuesday, as other cloud and service providers also confirmed outages at the same time.
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Nvidia Puts Certified AI Servers At Forefront In New Program
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker kicked off the program with 14 certified GPU servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Inspur, promising optimized performance for AI applications, frameworks and domain-specific software development kits from Nvidia’s NGC hub.
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DataCore Acquires Caringo In Major Software-defined Storage Play
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘As customers moved towards object storage, we decided an acquisition would be the fastest way to get it. Caringo had the most advanced technology, but was lacking the financial backing and the support of a strong channel. There are other object storage companies, but they don’t have the maturity the Caringo Swarm offers,’ says Gerardo Dada, DataCore’s chief marketing officer.
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Verizon 5G Footprint Will ‘Nearly Double’ In 2021 As Carrier Predicts Business Services Headwinds
by Gina Narcisi
The carrier experienced revenue declines within its business segment, especially in the enterprise space, in fourth-quarter 2020. 5G will be the focus in 2021, says Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.
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Mimecast Breach Linked To SolarWinds Hack, Allowed Cloud Services Access
by Michael Novinson
Mimecast said Tuesday that its certificate compromise was carried out by the same threat actor behind the SolarWinds attack and provided hackers with access to customers’ on-premises and cloud services.
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EdgeQ Takes On Intel’s 5G Play With AI-Infused Modem Chip
by Dylan Martin
EdgeQ claims its RISC-V-based 5G modem chip can replace the functions of multiple, discrete hardware components, including Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs, in 5G base stations, lowering the costs and power of such deployments significantly.
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Run:AI Raises $30M To Split Up GPUs Into AI, HPC Containers
by Dylan Martin
The Tel Aviv-based startup offers a virtualization platform that allows organizations to split up Nvidia GPUs into smaller, virtual GPU instances so that multiple workloads can run on the same GPU, speeding up the pace of GPU-based projects while also increasing the utilization of existing infrastructure.
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Review: 4 Things We Love About Dell’s OptiPlex 7780 All-In-One
by Kyle Alspach
The CRN Test Center finds the all-in-one PC to offer terrific display quality, performance and collaboration features.
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F5 Networks Closes $500M Volterra Deal To Further Edge Expertise
by Gina Narcisi
‘Joining forces, we will deliver the enterprise-grade features, including world-class security and scale, that have been missing from the edge until now,’ says F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou on the done deal.
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Big Data Analytics Startup Ocient Raises $40M In Early-Round Funding
by Rick Whiting
The developer of a platform for processing and analyzing huge volumes of data will use the funding to hire across its engineering, customer support, and sales and marketing operations this year.
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Michael Dell: Tech Should Be ‘An Equalizer,’ Not A ‘Source Of Division’
by Mark Haranas
‘The pandemic has made inequities in our technology infrastructure increasingly apparent, leaving those in rural and low-income areas struggling to work and learn effectively from home, putting disadvantaged people at an even greater disadvantage,’ says Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
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Databricks Raises $2B In Funding Ahead Of Expected IPO: Reports
by Rick Whiting
The big data analytics superstar has a market valuation approaching $30 billion, a number that could grow by the company goes public – likely sometime this year.
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SonicWall Partners On High Alert After Hack Exposes Tool Flaw
by Michael Novinson
‘This has been extreme pain. People are annoyed and upset, but understand it could have been a lot worse if they had been breached,’ Silicon East President Marc Harrison tells CRN.
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