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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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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
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AMD said Tuesday that a “sharp” jump in sales for the company’s CPUs across the PC and server segments as well as its Instinct data center GPUs allowed it to deliver record revenue of $9.2 billion for the third quarter as it teased deeper ties with OpenAI. www.crn.com/news/compone...
AMD Notes ‘Sharp’ Sales Jump For CPUs And Instinct GPUs As OpenAI Ties Deepen
AMD said Tuesday that a “sharp” jump in sales for the company’s CPUs across the PC and segments as well as its Instinct data center GPUs allowed it to deliver a record revenue of $9.2 billion for the ...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Pure Storage brought on former Cloudflare and Iron Mountain exec Patrick Finn as its new CRO. Finn replaces Dan FitzSimons who moved into an advisory role to assist in the transition. Pure also reaffirmed its 3Q and FY 2026 guidance.

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Pure Storage’s New CRO Commits To Helping Clients ‘Win By Enabling Them To Manage Their Data’
Pure Storage also reaffirmed its fiscal year 2026 guidance for revenue of $3.60 billion to $3.63 billion, up 14 percent over last year and up from previous guidance.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Kyndryl's second fiscal quarter 2026 revenue was down slightly, but the growth engines the company depends on point to a future of growth, Chairman/CEO Martin Schroeter told CRN.

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Kyndryl CEO: Second Quarter 2026 Sets Company Up For Forward Growth
Kyndryl’s second fiscal quarter 2026 revenue was down slightly, but the growth engines the company depends on point to a future of growth, Martin Schroeter told CRN.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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With friends like these, who needs enemas?
A tweet from Adam Carlson (@admcrlsn) says: “Andrew Cuomo has now been endorsed by: Donald Trump Elon Musk Eric Adams Bill Ackman Woody Allen Eric Trump George Santos Rep. Nick Langworthy (R) Rep. Mike Lawler (R) Fmr. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R) Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R) Steve Wynn Ronald Lauder Barry Diller Dan Loeb”
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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When Trump said Sunday that he won’t allow Nvidia to sell its most advanced AI chips to China, he seemed to escalate his rhetoric on semiconductor trade policy by also saying that every other country outside the U.S. won’t have access too. Partners aren't concerned. www.crn.com/news/compone...
Trump Says US Will Block Other Countries From Nvidia’s Top Chips
Partners explain to CRN why they are not concerned by President Trump’s Sunday statement that the U.S. will block Nvidia from selling its most advanced chips to other countries besides China.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Trump said that he will bar Nvidia from selling its most advanced chips to other non-US countries besides China, which would represent a significant escalation in his semiconductor trade policy rhetoric. Yet the interviewer didn't seem to even internalize what he said and moved on promptly.
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I tuned in to the @60minutes Trump interview with low expectations, and I haven’t bern surprised. Norah let Trump lie and lie with barely any pushback or provision of corrective facts. Where is the Aussie guy from @axios when we need him?
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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In a sign of AMD's growing channel prominence, the chip designer beat Intel in CRN’s 2025 Annual Report Card for the first time since the feature introduced a processor category 22 years ago. The company now making big moves with a restructured partner program. www.crn.com/news/compone...
Analysis: AMD Puts Channel Pressure On Intel As Both Firms Revamp Partner Programs
AMD is putting pressure on Intel in the channel, reflected by the company’s victory in CRN’s 2025 Annual Report Card and a 40 percent boost in spending for its restructured partner program.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Commvault’s new Data Room and Model Context Protocol server target the complexities of making backup data ready for value extraction by AI.

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Commvault Tackles AI Data Requirements With New Data Room, MCP Server
Commvault’s new Data Room and Model Context Protocol server target the complexities of making backup data ready for value extraction by AI.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Should Intel's acquisition of SambaNovaAI take place, Intel would gain a developer of chips, systems, and clouds aimed squarely at AI inference and give more direction to Intel’s AI strategy which has seen several ups and downs.

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Intel Looking To Acquire Startup AI Chip Developer SambaNova: Report
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has been executive chairman of SambaNova since 2024, and Intel Capital is one of SambaNova’s investors.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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ServiceNow Pres./CFO Gina Mastantuono told me in an exclusive meeting that AI bubble concerns are overblown. She also talked about the company's Fed business during the shutdown, H1-B visas, competition with Salesforce, and 3Q25 numbers.

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ServiceNow’s CFO On The AI ‘Revolution,’ Government Shutdown Impact And Salesforce Competition
ServiceNow President and CFO Gina Mastantuono told CRN that the company’s Federal business is strong, and that AI is a revolution and not a bubble.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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.@Zones, which in the last few years restructured from a product reseller to a full-blown global technology solution provider, also make a lot of executive changes. I had a nice conversation with new CEO Yehia Maaty Omar about the changes.

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Zones’ New CEO Yehia Omar On How The Company Has Restructured For The Future
Yehia Omar, Zones’ new CEO, takes over a company that over the past three years transformed itself from a product-focused reseller to an international services provider.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Global technology services provider DXC Technology Tuesday unveiled a new framework it uses for implementing AI internally and for its clients. Called Xponential, it's DXC’s next-generation AI orchestration blueprint

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DXC Unveils Xponential, Its Next-Generation AI Orchestration Blueprint
DXC’s new Xponential blueprints for AI aim to ensure the services provider’s clients have a safe, well-governed agentic AI experience.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I had a nice meeting with NetApp CEO George Kurian where we discussed the difference in value of data vs. storage and how businesses can take advantage of their data. We also talked about NetApp's role in AI, and H1-B visas.

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NetApp CEO On ‘Bringing AI To Your Data,’ Changing H-1B Visa Rules And The Firm’s Channel Strategy
NetApp CEO George Kurian in an exclusive meeting with CRN talked about the importance of transforming data for AI, and about the negative impact of high H1-B visa fees.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I had a nice long talk with NetApp CEO George Kurian about how NetApp differentiates itself by its focus on transforming, managing, and protecting data for AI. We also delved into the H1-B fee issue and how gov't business is changing.

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NetApp CEO On ‘Bringing AI To Your Data,’ Changing H-1B Visa Rules And The Firm’s Channel Strategy
NetApp CEO George Kurian in an exclusive meeting with CRN talked about the importance of transforming data for AI, and about the negative impact of high H1-B visa fees.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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NetApp CEO George Kurian and NetApp's top execs introduced how the company is focused on data, not storage, and what it's doing to advance the art of making data AI-ready while providing protection and governance.

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6 Ways NetApp Is Looking To Power AI Flexibility, Ransomware Resilience
Channel partners say NetApp is on the right track with its talk about transforming data for AI and then making sure it is secure even as the data changes.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM