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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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.
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, 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’ 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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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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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.
Yay!
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.
Well, she does sorta gotta say stuff like that.
I'll start the bidding at $20.
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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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.
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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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.
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You could have driven it in that time.
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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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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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.
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 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.
A great excuse for Trump to get ICE into the airports.