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Joe "Joe Kovar" Kovar
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Friend of the channel and @CRN reporter. Loves writing in English, speaking in Mandarin Chinese, and swearing unintelligibly when losing a wargame.
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Global cybersecurity distributor and services aggregator Exclusive Networks @EXN_Networks is taking direct aim at the persistent cybersecurity talent shortage with its CyberFarm program for training Cal Poly SLO students for jobs in this field.

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Exclusive Networks Looking To Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage With CyberFarm
Exclusive Networks just onboarded its 100th student to work in cybersecurity via its CyberFarm program on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo campus for jobs in the channel.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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MicroAge is leaning hard into its identity as a solutions provider rather than a traditional VAR, a distinction new CEO Larry Gentry says is critical as customers grapple with AI, cybersecurity and cloud complexity.

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MicroAge’s New CEO On AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud, And What It Means To Be A Solution Provider
Larry Gentry, who on Dec. 1 took over as CEO of MicroAge, talked with CRN about the importance of integrating AI, cybersecurity, and cloud into client solutions.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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SK hynix and Nvidia are jointly developing next-gen SSDs for AI inference. A prototype for the new SSDs with promised performance of 100M IOPS for AI inference workloads on Nvidia Rubin CPX GPUs is slated to be available in 2H 2026.

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SK hynix, Nvidia Jointly Developing SDDs For AI Inference: Report
The new SSDs jointly developed by SK hynix and Nvidia are aimed at high-performance AI workloads enabled by Nvidia’s new Rubin CPX GPUs.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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An acquisition of DataloopAI, if it happens, would boost Dell's AI infrastructure capabilities with that company’s AI development platform that gives AI applications access to large amounts of relevant data from diverse sources.

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Dell Looking To Acquire AI Data Infrastructure-Focused Dataloop: Report
Dell is reportedly looking to acquire Israel-based Dataloop for its enterprise-grade data engine for bringing diverse data to AI applications.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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A focus on AI components including XPUs, plus the signing of huge deals like the new $11 billion sale to Anthropic on top of a massive and growing backlog spike optimism on the future of Broadcom, President and CEO Hock Tan said.

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Broadcom Q4 2025 Earnings: 8 Things To Know From AI Strength, VMware Growth To Anthropic Deal Reveal
Broadcom President and CEO Hock Tan disclosed that Anthropic signed a $10 billion custom chip deal this fall with Anthropic, followed by a new $11 billion deal.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Wednesday that the company sold its stake in chip designer Ampere Computing “because we no longer think it is strategic for us to continue design, manufacturing and using our own chips in our cloud data centers.” www.crn.com/news/compone...
Why Oracle Sold Its Stake In Chip Designer Ampere, According to Larry Ellison
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said Wednesday that the company sold its stake in chip designer Ampere Computing “because we no longer think it is strategic for us to continue design, manufacturing and ...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Global technology services provider DXC Technology unveiled AdvisoryX, a new global advisory group targeting enterprises’ complex strategic, operational, and technology challenges, particularly around AI.

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DXC Launches AdvisoryX, Leverages All DXC Capabilities To Help Clients Adopt AI
DXC has reorganized its Consulting and Engineering Services to bring its advisory services into a new business called AdvisoryX to better serve clients’ AI needs.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Global enterprise tech services provider Kyndryl unveiled a new assessment service aimed to ensure enterprises' IT infrastructures are prepared for the security issues they will likely see as quantum computing starts to impact security.

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Kyndryl Aims New Quantum Safe Assessment At Future Security Risks
Kyndryl’s Quantum Safe Assessment service aims to help businesses understand their vulnerabilities as quantum computers start to be used in security attacks.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Peak:AIO, long self-funded and profitable, recently secured its first funding round to scale globally and expand its channel reach with its software-defined storage technology aimed at to deliver AI-grade performance.

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Peak:AIO CEO Says Software-Defined Storage Firm ‘Really Focused On The AI Space’
Peak:AIO is targeting its software-defined technology towards AI workloads, including GPU-heavy and GPU-as-a-service scenarios, CEO Roger Cummings told CRN.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Platform MSP Harbor IT Monday said it acquired Zag, an agriculture-focused MSP. This follows a similar move last month to acquire New England Network Solutions (NENS) in a bid to expand its healthcare regulatory & compliance capabilities.

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Harbor IT Acquires New England Network Solutions And Zag In Big Regulatory, Compliance Push
Harbor IT’s acquisition of fellow MSPs New England Network Solutions and Zag will help boost its regulatory and compliance capabilities in healthcare, agriculture, and other industries.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Jenni Flinders stepped down as SVP of NetApp’s global partner organization after four years. No replacement yet. The move comes 2 months after NetApp brought on Kristine Wedum from rival @PureStorage to handle U.S. channels.

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NetApp Channel Chief Jenni Flinders Departs: Exclusive
Jenni Flinders has left NetApp four years after joining the company from VMware where she spearheaded the channel business there.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Brian Harmison, CEO of Corsica Technologies, told me that one reason the MSP acquired its peer, AccountabilIT, last month was the MSP’s focus on the Microsoft security environment to significantly enhance its own capabilities.

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Corsica Gains Microsoft Security Expertise Via AccountabilIT Acquisition
Corsica Technologies acquired AccountabilIT for its Microsoft security focus and to expand its market reach to the West Coast.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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‘While software may have been “eating the world” in the last decade, it appears that data will be “eating the world” and potentially even “eat software” in the next,’ says Pure Storage
CEO/Chair Charles Giancarlo during the 3Q26 financial call.

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AI, Modern Virtualization Driving Explosive Focus On Data: Pure Storage CEO Giancarlo
Pure Storage is using its supply chain expertise to mitigate issues related to rising memory prices.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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After Nutanix reported its 1Q26 financials, Pres/CEO Rajiv Ramaswami looked beyond the numbers with a handful of media including CRN. Despite revenue below expectations and a cut in outlook, Nutanix is innovating for the future, he said.

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Nutanix CEO: ‘We Have An Opportunity To Scale Faster Through The Channel’
Nutanix doesn’t expect to take all of VMware’s business from Broadcom, but it does see a lot of opportunities there, said CEO Rajiv Ramaswami.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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India-based global IT services, consulting, & business solutions provider TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) introduced 2 new solutions for AI aimed at leveraging agentic interventions to help ease software engineering and IT operations.

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TCS Introduces New Agentic AI Solutions For Microsoft Azure
TCS is looking to help businesses more easily take advantage of agentic AI to do more in Azure AI environments.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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India-based global IT services, consulting, & business solutions provider TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) introduced 2 new solutions for AI aimed at leveraging agentic interventions to help ease software engineering and IT operations.

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TCS Introduces New Agentic AI Solutions For Microsoft Azure
TCS is looking to help businesses more easily take advantage of agentic AI to do more in Azure AI environments.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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India-based global IT services, consulting, and business solutions provider Tata Consultancy Services received a $1B investment from TPG aimed at supporting its HyperVault AI data center biz. The two plan a joint $2B invest in AI.

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TCS Taps TPG For $2-billion Joint Investment In HyperVault AI Data Center Business
Global alternative asset management firm TPG will invest about $1 billion in the joint development with TCS of the latter’s HyperVault AI data center business.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This week’s SuperComputing 2025 confab in St. Louis brought a wide range of storage, server, etc. technology aimed at helping business prepare for higher-performing AI and high-performance computing workloads. @crndotcom.bsky.social highlights 18 of the latest offerings.

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SuperComputing 2025 Shines Spotlight On AI, HPC-Targeted Performance
CRN highlights 18 of the new hardware and software offerings presented at this year’s SuperComputing 2025 (SC25) conference aimed at AI and HPC applications.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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NetApp alleges ex-CTO Jonsi Stefansson worked against it while still employed by ‘secretly starting a conflicting business and developing a competing product that he eventually sold to a direct rival company,' identified as VAST Data.

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NetApp Sues Former CTO, Alleges He Took Trade Secrets To Rival Vast Data
In addition to filing the lawsuit against Jonsi Stefansson, NetApp filed and was given a temporary restraining order through Nov. 26, which aims to prevent Stefansson from using NetApp’s confidential ...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Commvault is giving a whole new meaning to the term “ResOps.” In the wider technology area, ResOps is short for research operations. But Commvault CEO Sanjay Mirchandani now touts ResOps as short for resiliency operations.

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Commvault Debuts ‘Resilience Operations,’ Touting It As Key To AI-Era Data Management
While for everyone else “ResOps” may be short for research operations, but for Commvault it means resiliency operations.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Everywhere else, "ResOps" is short for research operations. But at Commvault, "ResOps" means resiliency operations. CEO Sanjay Mirchandani explains how ResOps fits Commvault's focus on resiliency, especially in the AI era.

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Commvault Debuts ‘Resilience Operations,’ Touting It As Key To AI-Era Data Management
While for everyone else “ResOps” may be short for research operations, but for Commvault it means resiliency operations.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Data protection/resiliency tech developer Commvault unveiled the Commvault Cloud Unity platform in a move it said will unify data security, cyber resilience, and identity resilience across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, & hybrid environments.

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Commvault Takes Data Resiliency Head-On With New Commvault Cloud Unity Platform
The new Commvault Clout Unity Platform aims to unify data security, cyber resilience, and identity resilience across all of a business’ data wherever it exists.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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ScanSource Thursday unveiled the acquisition of DataXoom, which develops two-way mobility technology for mobile data business users. ScanSource announced the buy during its 1Q26 financial conference call.

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ScanSource CEO Talks DataXoom Acquisition, Latest Quarter And Channel Changes
ScanSource said it acquired DataXoom which it will use with its Advantix business to provide connectivity solutions to its mobile device channel partners.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM