Wade Tyler Millward / CRN Salesforce has a playbook for ‘operation discipline and operational excellence, especially in the face of economic headwinds,’ co-founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff said on an earnings call this week. Read More...

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN The U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturer, spun off from AMD in 2009, told employees via a virtual staff meeting that it planned to cut up to 800 employees worldwide, primarily in non-manufacturing positions. Read More...

Rick Whiting / CRN Security tech providers Apiiro and Bishop Fox, big data software developers Alation and MotherDuck, and machine learning startup Galileo are among the companies that raised new financing in November, a list led by data and memory connectivity technology startup Astera Labs. Read More...

Dev Kundaliya / CRN Firm defends the move by saying it is the first price rise in 12 years. Read More...

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN ‘There have been no successful attacks to our knowledge. We are seeing an uptick in activity, so we wanted to get good information out there and make sure people are diligent and aware. I spent years in government. We probably overcommunicate,’ says ConnectWise CISO Patrick Beggs. Read More...

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN DeRocker, former president of Nexus Information Systems, was an early pioneer in the solution provider business, with a 30-year legacy of IT channel leadership in Minnesota, says his friend and former employee Keith Norbie. Read More...

Rick Whiting / CRN Data science and machine learning technologies continue to rapidly evolve, providing innovative ways for businesses to leverage their data assets and automate data-focused processes. Here are 10 startups with leading-edge data science and machine learning technology that have caught our attention this year. Read More...

Wade Tyler Millward / CRN The list includes a smart barbeque thermometer, a device for controlling paper planes by phone and a sensor for correcting golf swings are Read More...

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN ‘MSPs are where the real rubber hits the road. MSPs working with Salesforce already understand customer need and the gaps in the coverage. MSPs are still a small part of the overall Salesforce channel ecosystem, but it is the fastest-growing part. Salesforce has an MSP program to support that motion. […]...

Jay Fitzgerald / CRN Kris Hagerman says his security firm is picking up some business due to customers’ concerns over the proposed Broadcom-VMware merger. Read More...

Wade Tyler Millward / CRN ‘I didn‘t take this decision lightly,’ Elastic CEO Ash Kulkarni says in a post online. Read More...

Dev Kundaliya / CRN The platform failed to meet the financial expectations as an independent business. Read More...

O’Ryan Johnson / CRN “I’ve been a part of acquisitions by HPE before,” said Tim Joyce, president of Roundstone solutions, a Nutanix partner in Orinda, Calif. “HPE is where innovative companies go to die. Look what they did with SImplivity. Why would Nutanix be any different?” Read More...

O’Ryan Johnson / CRN “Often I’ve been asked by channel CEOs, ‘How do we find someone like Ryan Weeks to lead our cyber initiatives?’ And usually I respond, ‘You don’t,’” says cybersecurity expert Wes Spencer. Read More...

O’Ryan Johnson / CRN ‘This last quarter our two largest wins came through partnering with service providers—these are service providers who in some cases will take us and sell through and provide a service to their customers,’ Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami says on the company’s earnings call. Read More...

Wade Tyler Millward / CRN “If you need to do one thing, if there’s one critical thing that every company has to do to get through this, it’s to make sure they maintain their relationships with their customers,” co-CEO Marc Benioff said of the continued demand for Salesforce’s applications. Read More...

Mark Haranas / CRN “There’s this uncertainty in the air. A lot of people are asking, ‘Should we slow down? Should we pause?’ No. Now’s the time to lean in harder,” says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent 2022. Read More...

Joseph F. Kovar / CRN ‘Customers that do not take advantage of Pure’s QLC products to replace disk systems are choosing the more expensive and energy-intensive option,’ says Pure Storage CEO Charles Giancarlo on the company’s third fiscal quarter 2023 financial analyst call. Read More...

Mark Haranas / CRN From new AWS Data Exchange solutions to new ESK integrations and data visualization dashboards, here are five new AWS Marketplace offerings launched today at AWS re:Invent. Read More...

Rick Whiting / CRN The data cloud service provider will continue hiring in the next fiscal year, albeit at a slower pace, with plans to onboard as many as 1,000 new employees, especially in sales and product engineering. Read More...