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Posts by Joe "Joe Kovar" Kovar

When those Cybertrucks are declared surplus, please let me know where I can get one for free.

I've been looking for a couple of years for a free Cybertruck, but still no luck.

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Nice Work If You Can Get It (Remastered)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (Remastered) YouTube video by Frank Sinatra - Topic

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Wipro CEO: Global Disruptions And Mideast War Are Driving AI, Digital Transformation Demand Wipro CEO and Managing Director Srini Pallia used Wipro’s fiscal 2026 financial report to discuss AI, digital transformation, and the acquisition of Mindsprint from a customer.

Economic disruptions and the Iran war are not slowing down Wipro’s big AI push, Srini Pallia, CEO and managing director of Wipro, told financial press and analysts. Despite these headwinds, he said, IT spending has shown resilience

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Two problems with this:

* A lot of poor and middle-class people around the world DO care about the World Cup.

* With Trump as president looking for ways to keep anyone who doesn't look white from entering the country, he is likely on the way to make the World Cup an embarrassing failure.

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Lenovo Closes Infinidat Acquisition: 6 Big Things To Know Lenovo and Infinidat talked with CRN about why Lenovo took so long to make a serious enterprise storage play despite its large enterprise server business.

Top execs talked with @CRN about @Lenovo's Infinidat acquisition, including why it took so long for Lenovo to make a serious enterprise storage play to why fast-growing Infinidat wanted to sell at a time its tech is in high demand for use in AI workloads.

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Commvault Exploring Possible Company Sale: Report Commvault, which has a market capitalization of about $3.9 billion, is exploring the potential for a sale of the company, Reuters said.

Commvault, a leading provider of data protection and data management tech, has received inquiries from private equity companies and strategic buyers, including major software company investor Thoma Bravo, according to Reuters.

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General Informatics CEO Don Monistere on AI, Security, And The Future Of Managed Services General Informatics is looking to expand its AI capabilities and those of its managed services clients with the acquisition of fellow MSP IMS Solutions Group.

General Informatics’ recent acquisition of fellow MSP IMS Solutions Group not only expands its customer and geographic base, but brings a business that complements the AI strategy GI has been developing for at least three years, CEO Don Monistere told @crndotcom.bsky.social.

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Lenovo Closes Infinidat Acquisition, Instantly Becomes A Top Enterprise Storage Player With the close of its Infinidat acquisition, Lenovo finally joins its rivals HPE, Dell, and IBM in offering enterprise-class storage to match its enterprise-class server business.

It took over a year from the time Lenovo said it would acquire Infinidat, but the deal is closed and Lenovo finally moves from its SMB storage focus to selling high-performance enterprise storage to match its enterprise server business.

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Nasuni CEO On Expanding Cloud-Native Unstructured Data Platform For AI Nasuni’s cloud-native unstructured data platform has over time evolved into a global foundation for bringing fully governed and protected data to AI, CEO Sam King said.

Check out my Q&A w/ Nasuni CEO Sam King. Of course, we talked about this week's new product offerings. But our focus was on how Nasuni became an AI data foundation via its cloud-native unstructured data management and security capabilities.

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Good. But I'd switch the 6:00 and 9:00 positions.

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Yay!

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Nutanix Goes Big On Agentic AI, Adds Multi-Tenant Cloud Capabilities Nutanix is touting its new multi-tenancy capabilities as the last key to attracting customers of arch-rival VMware to migrate to Nutanix’s cloud technology.

Nutanix Tuesday intro'd an agentic AI platform, solidified new partnerships with storage vendors Everpure and NetApp, and planned to migrate customers from arch-rival VMware by giving channel partners multi-tenant environments.

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He's getting some tips to bring back to his boss.

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Well, she does sorta gotta say stuff like that.

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I'll start the bidding at $20.

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Naitiv was co-founded by three members of major ServiceNow partner Thirdera, later acquired by Cognizant, along with an insurance expert to bring AI initially to the insurance industry but eventually to a wide swath of the ServiceNow market.

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Logicalis CEO Jon Groves On His Plans To Be ‘The Most AI-Infused Partner Out There’ Logicalis CEO Jon Groves, in an exclusive meeting with CRN, outlined his plans for turning his company into an AI-first solution provider.

LogicalisUS CEO Jon Groves, in an exclusive meeting with @crndotcom.bsky.social, outlined his plans for turning his company into an AI-first solution provider.

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Your April Fools' Day Reminder that trickle-down economics is the greatest trick of all. It's nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich at your expense. Don't fall for it.

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TD Synnex CEO On Record Quarter, Seeing ‘Lots Of Tailwinds In The Market’ TD Synnex said its first fiscal quarter 2026 saw record revenue of $17.2 billion.

Had a nice conversation with TD Synnex CEO Patrick Zammit where we discussed the company's record 1Q26, the first time for breaking out Hyve numbers, inflation, shortages, and the impact of the Iran War.

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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Could This Actually End Citizens United? YouTube video by Robert Reich

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.

No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed.

This is no joke.

Here's how it works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fP...

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You could have driven it in that time.

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Xerox Taps Louie Pastor As CEO After Steve Bandrowczak Steps Down Louie Pastor is Xerox’s new CEO following the sudden departure of former CEO Steve Bandrowczak .

Xerox Monday appointed Louie Pastor as its new CEO after Steve Bandrowczak stepped down. Bandrowczak during his 3.5 years as CEO oversaw the Lexmark and ITsavvy acquisitions, and signed a $450M private equity investment in the company.

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Shaun of the Dead: Don't Stop Me Now
Shaun of the Dead: Don't Stop Me Now YouTube video by megaflex

The movie also introduced me to what became my favorite song, Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. The scene of the heroes beating the zombie with pool queues to the beat of that song, hilarious!
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Supermicro Servers With Nvidia GPUs Sold To China Military-Linked Universities: Report However, the Nvidia A100 processors on which the servers are based are no longer in production and may have been shipped before U.S. export controls were put in place.

News that a couple universities w/ links to the Chinese military have acquired or are looking to acquire Supermicro servers with Nvidia A100 GPUs comes in the wake of U.S. DoJ action against smuggling servers with more advanced GPUs.

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So now the U.S. wants to spend money to fight the "evils" of wind power?

I can't wait for the next elections.

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US Indicts Three In Second Nvidia AI Chip Smuggling Case Linked To Supermicro Servers This is the second time in two weeks indictments were issued against people looking to smuggle what appear to be Supermicro servers with Nvidia GPUs to China.

Nvidia told @crndotcom.bsky.social that, "Despite several efforts, the would-be smugglers failed to clear our diligence process and did not receive GPUs from us." This after a 2nd DoJ indictment in 2 weeks for attempts to smuggle
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Sherweb Co-CEO: First Outside Investment Signals A Bigger Push Into AI, Marketplace Expansion, And M&A Sherweb Co-CEO Matthew Cassar talked with CRN about an equity investment in the cloud distributor, as well as its focus on Microsoft cloud and AI tech for SMB MSPs.

Sherweb Wed. got a C$125M / US$90.5M investment despite being a profitable cloud distributor. CEO Matthew Cassar discussed the investment, as well as the importance of AI and cloud for SMB MSPs and the impacts of U.S. trade disruptions.

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The lines are a great excuse for Trump to get ICE into the airports.

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A great excuse for Trump to get ICE into the airports.

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