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Microsoft Ignite 2021: 4 Top Takeaways From Scott Guthrie And Judson Althoff
by Wade Tyler Millward
Guthrie, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, and Althoff, who heads the worldwide commercial business, used keynotes at Ignite to discuss the future of Azure, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
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Wipro Makes Big ‘Higher-Margin’ Consulting Bet With Capco Acquisition
by Steven Burke
‘It’s a big significant bet by Wipro that they can pivot out of the lower value outsourcing application development space which is largely becoming commoditized and into higher-margin financial technology services consulting,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors of Walnut Creek, Calif., one of the top technology services investment advisory deal-makers.
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IBM Names Research Exec Kathryn Guarini As New CIO
by Kyle Alspach
Guarini, a company veteran who previously held roles at IBM Research, succeeds outgoing CIO Fletcher Previn.
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Partners: Demand For Cloud Services Is ‘Up Significantly’ For 2021
by Kyle Alspach
Solution providers that partner with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud tell CRN that they are expecting major growth in their cloud services businesses this year -- as agility and rapid scalability become a greater necessity for many customers.
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HPE Acquires Cloud Assessment ‘Crown Jewel’ CloudPhysics
by Steven Burke
‘For partners, whether they want to go win a new account or service an installed base, we are bringing cloud-native software technology to them in order to drastically reduce the sales cycle, reduce the amount of engineering time to propose a new solution, and help really increase the velocity of their business,’ says HPE Storage Senior Vice President and General Manager Tom Black.
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s ‘Deeply, Deeply Passionate’ Plan To Make IBM-Red Hat No. 1 In Hybrid Cloud, AI
by Steven Burke
IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna is transforming the company into a hybrid cloud and AI powerhouse focused on a $1 trillion market opportunity with a plan to double its revenue with partners over the next three to five years.
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Microsoft’s Georgia Data Center Aims To Make Azure Even More ‘Desirable’
by Wade Tyler Millward
The new Azure region aims to deliver faster access along with improved resistance to data center failures, Microsoft said.
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Secure Edge OS Blockbuster: TA Associates Buys IGEL, Adds Software Superstar Bill Veghte
by Steven Burke
“This deal defines IGEL as a category creator and disruptor in the edge OS market,” said IGEL CEO Jed Ayres. “We couldn’t be more excited that TA has singled out IGEL as the de facto secure edge OS standard on any cloud and any device, uniting Microsoft, AWS, VMware and Citrix across both x86 and ARM.”
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Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure: Bringing The Oracle Cloud To The Edge
by Joseph F. Kovar
“We are delivering a completely disconnected device. We can load the customer application, such as a machine learning model for use with facial recognition or vehicle identification, for instance. The big public cloud providers have done a great job with scale-out and containers. But the answer for scale-up is to connect the application to the cloud,” says Ross Brown, vice president of product marketing for Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
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Public-Bound AvePoint Names Jason Beal As New Channel Chief: Exclusive
by Jennifer Zarate
‘Solution providers, our partners, our MSPs who are watching this today, I can assure you channel is a huge part of our future; you’re going to see a ton of investment,’ AvePoint’s Jason Beal told CRNtv.
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HCL Technologies Marks $10B Milestone With ‘Special Bonus’ For Employees, Gratitude For ‘Immense Commitment’
by Steven Burke
“We have some great passionate people and a very strong people-centric culture which is thriving,” said HCL Technologies President and CEO C Vijayakumar. “Our client satisfaction is at an all-time high. So on multiple dimensions HCL is really racing ahead as a very, very strong digital transformation partner for our clients.”
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‘Well-Deserved’: AWS Rivals Microsoft, Google Congratulate Incoming Amazon CEO Jassy
by Donna Goodison
Andy Jassy is slated to replace Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in the third quarter.
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AWS CEO Andy Jassy Named New Amazon CEO, Replacing Bezos
by Donna Goodison
‘Right now, I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition,’ Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos says in a statement.
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vFunction Exits Stealth With $12.2M In Funding, Tech For Moving Legacy Apps To Cloud-Native
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘There is a significant inhibitor to cloud adoption. The big issue is how to transform the 81 percent of workloads that are not cloud-native. There are 21 billion Java virtual machines and 12 million Java developers. And you can’t move to the cloud without refactoring and rewriting these applications,” says Moti Rafalin,’ vFunction co-founder and CEO.
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