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“We’re at $100B run rate Amazon Web Services , yet 85% or more of the global IT spend remains on-premises,” says CEO Andy Jassy

And this is before you even calculate most of which will be created over the next 10 to 20 years from scratch & on the cloud'

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AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure—combined—accounted for a whopping 67% share of the $76 billion 💵 Q1 2024 global cloud market.

Here's the current cloud market share figures for the Top 5





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A fantastic chat w/ Tony CEO of Google Cloud all-star partner💪SADA, An Insight company about:

*Winning new Google Workspace customers

*Insight’s Microsoft practice

*Bullish thoughts on Google’s strategy

A great interview that Google Cloud partners should read:

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vs vs Q1 2024 earnings results on:

*Sales growth rate 📈
*New market share data 🏆
*Revenue 💵
*Operating income

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks:

* Google Cloud & YouTube will have a combined $100 billion 💵run rate in 2024

*Why Google “owns the best infrastructure for the AI era” 💪

* GoogleWorkspace is “now widely seen as the leader in cybersecurity” 👀

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“We are applying AI to our whole partner incentive portfolio,” Google Cloud's Colleen Kapase.

Google Cloud injects into major partner tools—like Partner Hub & Delivery Navigator Portal—to boost financial transparency & efficiency for partners

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Google Cloud is taking channel margins to new heights: Google Cloud partners who win new Google Workspace business will now receive 60 percent margin for the first year, Kevin Ichhpurani told CRN.

Google Cloud Partners
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From a new Specialization to increasing incentives by 10X for partners driving GenAI customer wins,

Here's the new launches for channel partners unveiled at 24 :

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New Google Gemini AI offerings include:
*Gemini 1.5 Pro
*Gemini Code Assist for Google Cloud
*Gemini in Security Operations

Here’s 10 NEW Google AI offerings unveiled today at :

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A blockbuster scoop by CRN's Mark Haranas on the devastating impact of a whopping 40 percent cut in renewal margins for Google Workspace- even as Microsoft steps up its Microsoft Copilot AI offensive.
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Over 265 million Juniper Networks shareholder votes were in favor of the $14 Billion 💵

HPE deal, compared with just 258,000 who voted against the merger.

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The world’s most expensive data center project is underway as AI juggernauts & are building a supercomputer facility to take AI to the next level for a price tag of over $100 billion:

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Heavy fines 💪💵 could hit & as the EU opens investigations into how these tech giants are complying with new antitrust rules.

If guilty, the EU can fine each 10% of revenue.

Example: Alphabet's $307 billion in 2023 = $30B fine.

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-61% of SMBs spend less than $1.2 million 💵 annually on public clouds, compared to 15% of enterprises

-Under 10% of SMBs spend over $6M, compared to over 53% of enterprises spending at least $6M or more.

Here's the yearly spending bill in 2024:

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-61% of SMBs spend less than $1.2 million 💵 annually on public clouds, compared to 15% of enterprises -Under 10% of SMBs spend over $6M, compared to over 53% of enterprises spending at least $6M or more. Here's the yearly #Cloud spending bill in 2024: crn.com/news/cloud/202…
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From Nvidia’s new Blackwell GPU platform being injected into AWS, Azure and GCP, to new generative AI accelerators --

Here's 10 NEW ❗️ offerings for and that partners & customers need to know about:

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'With the Avalor acquisition, we can more effectively identify vulnerabilities, while predicting and preventing breaches,' says Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry .

A great & buy 💪

Here's what you need to know:

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IBM is reportedly laying off employees in its communications and marketing division as looks toward to replace non-customer-facing roles.

Here's what you need to know about the :

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With nearly 25% of  &  customers spending $500,000💵 to over $5 million💰 EACH month, understanding cloud spending trends, discounts & adoption rates is critical.

Here's 5 important results from Flexera’s new 2024 report:

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With nearly 25% of #aws & #Azure customers spending $500,000💵 to over $5 million💰 EACH month, understanding cloud spending trends, discounts & adoption rates is critical. Here's 5 important results from Flexera’s new 2024 report: crn.com/news/cloud/202…
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