VMware helps partners to capture the multi-cloud opportunity

VMware has revealed the next evolution of the company’s flagship VMware Partner Connect program is live worldwide.

Partner Connect is a singular, unified program for all partner types that is now more flexible and efficient, provides faster and simpler paths to progression, delivers more incentives, and rewards partners for both performance and capabilities.

Through Partner Connect, VMware is empowering partners to drive growth by helping their customers successfully...

21 March 2023 | Companies

Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquires OpsRamp

Fidelma Russo, HPE CTO.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to acquire OpsRamp, an IT operations management (ITOM) company that monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads and applications for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including the leading hyperscalers.

Integrating OpsRamp’s hybrid digital operations management solution with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform – and supporting it with HPE services – will reduce the operational...

20 March 2023 | Applications

Acxiom boosts brands’ marketing ROI with Salesforce Data Cloud

Customer intelligence company Acxiom has extended its Salesforce practice to support brands in achieving their unique business goals with Salesforce Data Cloud.

The Salesforce Data Cloud uses real-time data to deliver highly personalised customer experiences across sales, service, marketing, and commerce that continuously adapt to changing customer information and needs in real time.

Today, customers expect personalisation in their interactions with brands. In fact,...

16 March 2023 | Cloud Computing

83% of CIOs must do more with less in 2023

SoftwareOne Holding AG, a global software and cloud solutions provider, has unveiled the findings of 'CIO Pulse: 2023 budgets & priorities'.

The study, which recently surveyed 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers in the UK and USA examines how the current global economy is impacting IT priorities, revealing that despite 93% of CIOs expecting IT budgets to increase in 2023, 83% say they are under pressure to make their budgets stretch further than ever before – with a key focus...

13 March 2023 | Cloud Computing

Teradata VantageCloud integrated with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

Teradata has integrated Teradata VantageCloud, an cloud analytics and data platform, with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML).

VantageCloud’s scalability, openness and analytics - ClearScape Analytics - combined with Azure ML’s ability to simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle could help customers unlock the full value of their data, even in the most complex and demanding environments.

Despite continued investment by organisations in AI/ML, many AI/ML...

9 March 2023 | Collaboration

Here comes the supercloud: What does it mean for multi-cloud complexity?

A new concept for cloud networking aims to bring clarity to multi-cloud and bring the true aspirational path we were all promised. Except it’s not that new.

Say hello to the supercloud. This time last year, Lori MacVittie, distinguished engineer at F5, wrote for Network Computing around the results of the multi-cloud security and app delivery provider’s annual State of Application Strategy report. MacVittie, who has previously written for CloudTech, concluded that 99% of...

22 February 2023 | Cloud Computing

98% of firms using public cloud adopt multicloud infrastructure provider strategy

Fluffy white clouds.

Multicloud is the new reality in enterprise technology according to a study from 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, commissioned by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

The study collected information from 1,500 respondents at enterprises - organisations with more than 1,000 full-time employees in North America or more than 500 in other regions - about how they use the cloud within their organisation and found that almost every cloud journey is now becoming a...

21 February 2023 | Cloud Computing

Cloud preferred deployment method to address supply chain challenges

A rusty chain piled up.

Apply three quarters (71%) of companies believe the cloud or a hybrid solution will be their preferred deployment method for labeling within the next three years.

This is according to an annual report published by Loftware, a global software company specialising in Enterprise Labelling and Artwork Management solutions.

The global survey, which draws on insights from almost 500 professionals across industries in 55 countries, found a shift in attitudes toward cloud...

21 February 2023 | Cloud Computing

IBM launches new way to partner through IBM Partner Plus

IBM

IBM has developed IBM Partner Plus, a new program that reimagines how IBM engages with its business partners through unprecedented access to IBM resources, incentives, and tailored support to deepen their technical expertise and help speed time to market.

The program is designed to fuel growth for new and existing partners, including resellers, hyperscalers, technology providers, independent software vendors and systems integrators, by putting them in control of their earning...

6 February 2023 | Cloud Computing

Daasity builds ELT+ for Commerce on the Snowflake Data Cloud

Modular data platform Daasity has launched ELT+ for Commerce, Powered by Snowflake.

It is thought ELT+ for Commerce will benefit customers by enabling consumer brands selling via eCommerce, Amazon, retail, and/or wholesale to implement a full or partial data and analytics stack. 

Dan LeBlanc, Daasity co-founder and CEO, said: “Brands using Daasity and Snowflake can rapidly implement a customisable data stack that benefits from Snowflake’s dynamic workload...

2 February 2023 | Cloud Computing