‘I think it’s a very positive indicator that capital conditions are very robust and healthy, even in a higher interest rate environment,’ says M&A expert John Holland on the acquisition.

Read more about Ntiva acquiring The Purple Guys below at CRN.

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'We want to take the fear of adopting AI because of data leakage and data governance, compliance, we want to take that out of the equation,' Bradley Reynolds, SVP for artificial intelligence at Expedient, tells CRN.

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.@CDW Wednesday blamed tough economic conditions beyond its control for a tough first fiscal quarter 2024. However, the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based company said future prospects look brighter as the positive impact from AI is only now starting to be felt.

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“I've been trying to take everything that's been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview.

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CRN rounds up five cool AI and high-performance computing servers from Dell Technologies, Lenovo, Supermicro and Gigabyte that use AMD's Instinct MI300 chips, which launched a few months ago to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing space.

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The company says there’s ‘no evidence that the threat actor accessed the contents of users’ accounts’ in the breach of its Dropbox Sign service.

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Tony Safoian, CEO of Google Cloud all-star partner SADA, talks about winning new Google Workspace customers, Insight’s Microsoft practice and his bullish thoughts on Google’s AI strategy.

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A Miami-based CEO of numerous tech companies was sentenced in federal court to more than six years in prison for running an extensive operation selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to buyers.

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In Apple’s first-quarter earnings call, the chief executive of Apple says the company will make an announcement in the ‘weeks ahead’ and added that he expects generative AI capabilities to come to the ‘vast majority of our devices.’

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In a new episode of CRN In Depth, I share the details on ☁️ Pax8’s leadership change and how the company wants to bring solution providers into the next chapter of IT distribution:
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No, i'm not finished with the @Pax8 CEO news on Scott Chasin.

This time, I dive deeper into the company becoming profitable and how going public is on the table.

I also did a CRN In-Depth video with Wade Millward on the news.

Column: How can decision-making transparency, inclusivity, and effective communication improve business outcomes across your organization? How can you ensure justice and fairness within your teams and across departments?

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‘For us, it’s about being focused on executing where there’s high demand in IT spend. And recovery, resilience, cyber, AI are the areas where companies are still spending, and that’s where we play,’ says Commvault CFO Gary Merrill.

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The semiconductor giant says its AI model optimization work is important because ‘models form the backbone of AI-enhanced software features like object removal, image super resolution or text summarization.’

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With its own MongoDB Atlas development platform at the core, the new MAAP initiative pulls together expertise and technology from cloud hyperscalers, leading GenAI tech providers such as Anthropic and LangChain, and MongoDB consulting/SI partners.

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As UnitedHealth’s CEO gets grilled by a U.S. Senate committee, the folly of acquiring a company with outdated cybersecurity practices is on display.

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New HPE VP of Worldwide Distribution Michael Bernhardt told CRN among his top priorities will be to “increase engagement and participation” in the “under-utilized” HPE distribution led service provider program.

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Channel titan Insight Enterprises acquires one of North America’s top ServiceNow partners. Here’s Insight’s merger plans for Infocenter.

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Google’s new round of layoffs hit developers and engineers working inside Google’s Core business unit. Here’s what you need to know.

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