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Google Partner SADA Systems Launches National Response Portal To Battle Covid-19
by Joseph Tsidulko
Google asked its leading channel partner to leverage technology it had built to help municipalities coordinate construction projects. The new platform, which helps health-care providers and the public better understand the pandemic, went live Thursday.
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s Roadmap To ‘The New Normal’
by Joseph Tsidulko
In a Q2 earnings call, Benioff said the cloud giant is prepared to enter ‘stage 2’—a safe reopening of the economy. Despite the challenges of the last quarter brought on by the coronavirus crisis, Salesforce continues to invest in innovation, along with protecting its employees, customers and communities in unprecedented times
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Google Hopes To Start Reopening More Offices On July 6
by Donna Goodison
'We’ll have rigorous health and safety measures in place to ensure social distancing and sanitization guidelines are followed, so the office will look and feel different than when you left,' Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email. 'Our goal is to be fair in the way we allocate time in the office, while limiting the number of people who come in, consistent with safety protocols.'
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IBM Employees Hit With Widespread Layoffs: Reports
by Joseph Tsidulko
IBM Global Technology Services operations appear to be hardest hit. Big Blue notes “the unique and difficult situation this business decision may create for some of our employees” for whom it will continue subsidizing medical insurance through next year.
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Antonio Neri: COVID-19 ‘Economic Disruption’ Is Time To ‘Double Down’ On HPE Everything-As-A-Service Strategy
by Steven Burke
“Partners need to be able to provide a true edge-to-cloud experience and become more relevant in the context of the public cloud,” said Neri in an interview with CRN. “To me, we both have the opportunity to go faster here. When you go through tough times as we are today, this is where leadership matters and you have to move faster. That is what we are doing.”
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Former IBM Exec Carola Cazenave Is New Pegasystems Channel Chief
by Joseph Tsidulko
Cazenave tells CRN that Pegasystems has an opportunity to double the size of its business by leveraging partners developing on its low-code business automation platform to drive enterprise digital transformation initiatives and penetrate new markets
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SaaSOps Standout BetterCloud Secures $75 Million In New Funding
by Joseph Tsidulko
As work-from-home mandates are driving a surge of interest in its SaaS management platform, the startup will invest in building out product capabilities as well as fostering greater understanding of the emerging category of SaaSOps.
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott’s Top WFH Tips And Tech Trends
by Donna Goodison
'The biggest (technology trend) -- and it's one that we have been thinking a lot about over the past two and a half, three years -- is this big transformation towards large-model AI and this new set of-techniques that we're calling self-supervised learning,” Scott says
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Google Cloud Wins Multimillion-Dollar Pentagon Cybersecurity Contract
by Joseph Tsidulko
The third-largest public cloud provider has secured a seven-figure contract from the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit to implement ‘zero trust’ security across a multi-cloud environment managed by its Anthos Kubernetes platform. Previously, internal dissent had caused Google to pull away from DoD engagements.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's 4 Biggest Statements At Build 2020
by Kyle Alspach
From helping to enable the post-COVID world to updates in Azure and Microsoft 365, here are the key takeaways from Nadella's talk at the digital-only Build conference.
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Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir Now A Free 9-Week Online Series
by Donna Goodison
'Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir will be a much-needed opportunity to connect, collaborate and get inspired as a community to solve the most important challenges facing business today,' Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says in a statement.
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Activist Elliott Management Takes Stake In Oracle
by Joseph Tsidulko
The hedge fund revealed to the SEC it purchased just more than $21 million in Oracle stock, a tiny share relative to Oracle’s market cap but potentially a signal of growing interest in the tech giant
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WSJ: U.S. DOJ, State AGs Likely To Bring Google Antitrust Suit
by Joseph Tsidulko
No final decision has been reached by the Justice Department or a coalition of states, but sources tell The Wall Street Journal charges of anti-competitive advertising and search practices are likely coming as early as this summer
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Oracle Cloud Preparing To Introduce Nvidia’s New A100s
by Joseph Tsidulko
The groundbreaking GPUs designed to accelerate machine learning training and inference will be available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instances by the end of summer.
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