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Microsoft, General Assembly Partner To Address AI Skills Gap

by Donna Goodison

'As a technology company committed to driving innovation, we have a responsibility to help workers access the AI training they need to ensure they thrive in the workplace of today and tomorrow,' says Jean-Philippe Courtois, Microsoft’s executive vice president and president of global sales, marketing and operations.

5 Companies That Had A Rough Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending May 17, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

IBM Sells $20 Billion In Bonds To Fund Red Hat Acquisition

by Joseph Tsidulko

Big Blue told the SEC it is terminating bridge loans from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs now that a large portion of funding for the $34 billion deal has been secured with new debt

D&H Distributing Says It Grew Sales 17% In FY19

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘We are not winning based on price. We were winning based on value and our service levels. Our partners clearly identify with D&H’s differentiated level of service in aligning with us,’ co-president Dan Schwab tells CRN.

WATCH: Frame’s Founder Talks Being Acquired By Nutanix And New Partner-Friendly Services Capabilities

by Diana Blass

‘VDI has always been very partner-oriented because VDI is hard,’ says Nikola Bozinovic, general manager and vice president of desktop services at Nutanix, and the founder of Frame. Bozinovic discusses how partners can benefit from Nutanix’s acquisition of Frame in an interview with CRNtv.

TierPoint Searching For $500M In Funding, Possible Sale: Report

by Mark Haranas

TierPoint is searching for hundreds of millions in equity investment to expand its edge data center footprint, a source told CRN.

Lenovo Ramps Up Strategy To Continue Its 'Hyper-Growth' In PC

by Kyle Alspach

The company showed a strong commitment to product innovation and working with the channel during Accelerate 2019, partners told CRN.

'Major' Salesforce Outage Whacks Firm's Marketing Automation Customers

by Michael Novinson

Salesforce says the issue impacts current and former customers of the company’s Pardot marketing automation software, where the deployment of a database script resulted in granting users broader data access than intended.

5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending May 17, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

HPE-Cray Deal Will Drive HPC Sales Through GreenLake, Partners Say

by Mark Haranas

‘As far as partners go, being able to offer large HPC or supercomputer environments as-a-Service and have them funded in the GreenLake program I think can open up new practices for partners,’ says Worth Davis, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Computex Technology Solutions.

10 Hot SIEM Tools To Know About In 2019

by Michael Novinson

Here's a look at how companies like IBM, LogRhythm, and Splunk use SIEM tools to bring analytics and orchestration together to more effectively monitor threats and translate alerts into actionable intelligence.

SAP Channel Chief: We’ll ‘Remove The Barriers’ For Partners In Digital Transformation Quest

by Rick Whiting

Recently appointed chief partner officer Karl Fahrbach, in an interview at last week's SapphireNow conference, promises new engagement models and financial incentives for solution providers and to continue removing barriers to doing business with the software giant.

30 Notable IT Executive Moves: April 2019

by Dylan Martin

CRN takes a look at the 30 biggest IT executive moves in April, which included two big board departures at Alphabet, a big hiring win for Google Cloud and new CFOs at Intel and Arm.

Nvidia Q1 2020: Revenue, Earnings Down As Gaming, Data Center Business ‘Pauses’

by Joseph F. Kovar

Nvidia still came in above revenue and earning-per-share expectations on hopes that its accelerated computing strategy including ray-tracing and inference technology for artificial intelligence will drive the company forward.

HPE Acquiring Cray For $1.3 Billion To Drive Supercomputing And AI

by Mark Haranas

‘By combining our world-class teams and technology, we will have the opportunity to drive the next generation of high-performance computing and play an important part in advancing the way people live and work,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri.