AI-based service intelligence is key to increasing the efficiency of managing service tickets as MSPs start using agents powered by intelligence with information from their knowledge base, previous tickets, and real-time events, Thread said. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3nm83tjt

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

NetApp CEO George Kurian said despite “unprecedented inflation” in memory prices that its all-flash storage drew record revenue in 3Q26. Kurian also said 300 new customers in the third quarter selected NetApp storage for their AI workloads. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yx8zffpp

Nvidia said Wednesday that it saw the largest sequential growth in company history for the fourth quarter as it claimed to be the “world’s largest networking business.” www.crn.com/news/ai/2026...

AMD and Nutanix Wednesday unveiled a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at developing what they called an open, full-stack AI infrastructure platform specifically for agentic AI apps. AMD is also sending Nutanix $250M. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/55ex5ek8

With memory prices escalating and supplies tightening, distributors and channel partners are navigating a landscape of uncertainty, according to top executives from 5 IT distributors who met with @crndotcom.bsky.social for exclusive conversations during last week’s GTDC Summit. tinyurl.com/bdz4vced

Hello. Did anyone else besides me see that with Pure Storage's rebranding as Everpure, it chose the same name as a maker of something for deodorizing protein shakers and sports bottles, another making skin care products, and several other companies? tinyurl.com/bptz54ae

The acquisition of 1touch by Everpure, formerly known as Pure Storage, is aimed at giving the data storage and management company the data discovery, classification, enrichment, and contextualization capabilities needed for building the AI use cases of the future. tinyurl.com/bptz54ae

Workflow automation management platform developer Monday.com Tuesday expanded its channel partner program with an emphasis on helping its partners bring AI to their customers’ deployments. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4z5wp3sk

I updated this channel M&A story with comments from Guggenheim Partnrs which has a long history of advising channel partners on potential acquisition opportunities including Verinext. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hpzc6nn

Logicalis acquired cybersecurity specialist Maple Woods Enterprises, giving it access to Maple Woods’ Overwatch advanced cybersecurity and compliance technology. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/43e2xsus

IT solution provider Arctiq this month closed its acquisition of fellow channel partner Verinext, bringing together two companies with virtually no geographic, customer or skillset overlap into a new channel powerhouse. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3z3rys3y

Global technology services provider DXC Technology Tuesday said it has completed its enterprise-wide implementation of Amazonm Quick and is now looking to roll out the agentic AI digital platform to its enterprise clients. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vy5cyes

Kyndryl Monday launched an accounting review in response to an SEC request, but said it expects no impact on its balance sheets or financial statements. The company's CFO and general counsel also suddenly departed. Share prices V55%. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bddb28nj

Vast Data, which when it closed its last big round of funding in late 2023 said it didn’t need the money, appears to be looking at this massive round as a way to give its early investors a big return on their investment. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n8s3y5a

As AI tech matures, 2026 will see AI offering transformative value, said Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar. Kumar also said Cognizant's BPO business will grow for decades despite AI as companies modernize legacy processes and operations. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4jnzvkdm

Google parent Alphabet ended FY25 with what CEO @sundarpichaigoogle.bsky.social called a “tremendous" quarter that saw its annual revenue breach the $400 billion mark for the first time thanks to growth in its AI and Google Cloud business. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2vuuc9nr

This SNL sketch from 1998 about America’s “media-opoly” makes some eerily timely points. Corporations or ultra-wealthy individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own financial interests. Watch.

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

Hard drive manufacturer WD (Western Digital) Tuesday unveiled its road map for producing drives with capacities of over 100 TB along with a new intelligent platform the company said will redefine the economics of storage. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/566827fw

National managed service provider @integrisit has developed an internal AIOps framework and is now looking to roll its experience into an offering it can take to its clients. Check out my conversation with CEO Kris Laskarzewski at @CRN. tinyurl.com/mr3ba7ku

IBM has transformed itself into a software and AI company and in the process enjoyed a strong fiscal 4Q25. Arvind Krishna, IBM chair/pres/CEO said software represents about 45% of IBM’s business, up from about 25% in 2018. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2hwauwh6

Increased AI adoption and a growing backlog point to continued strong growth for ServiceNow, CFO Gina Mastantuono told me. "We’re seeing record deal sizes, expanding customer adoption, and AI deployments," she said. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4vw86mez

ServiceNow is collaborating w/ Anthropic to tighten the relationship between Anthropic Claude AI models and ServiceNow workflows. Claude becomes the default model behind ServiceNow Build Agent for vibe coding technology. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/r6k28hht

While Archive360 began as a data migration services company, it quickly transformed into a specialized archive platform provider and is now focused on AI tools to help get value from archived data, CEO Jerry Caviston told me. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/485dxyaw

ServiceNow elite consulting & implementation partner Corex, has added services and expertise around the ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) platform with its acquisition of the ServiceNow business unit of InSource. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3budd7h4

Great aurora in Greenland tonight!

I want to share with you a piece from a German documentarian on the chilling parallels between ICE and Hitler’s Brown Shirts (reproduced with his permission). Please read and share. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts

Intel has hired a former Arm and HPE executive to take on a new leadership role focused on data center systems and solutions as its CEO made another AI-related reorganization, CRN has learned. www.crn.com/news/compone...

IT distributor D&H Tuesday said it has acquired Fulfillment.com, a provider of technology for e-commerce fulfillment, in a move it said will expand the IT distribution giant’s Scale third-party logistics and supply chain services business. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4ksnre7e

ServiceNow unveiled changes to expand its channel program, incl. the intro of a new partner business value composer it said will make it easier for solution providers to help speed customers’ adoption of the latest AI technologies. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n8xmd69

Veeam acquired Object First, co-founded by the same duo who co-founded Veeam, which develops a line of appliances known as Ootbi, or Out Of The Box Immutability, which provide immutable storage to data protected in Veeam environments. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/52kse7hj

Salil Parekh, CEO and managing director of digital services and consulting giant Infosys, said AI is quickly becoming a key focus in the growth of his company, which has also deepened relationships with its largest global customers. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/35k79yyz

Wasabi, the self-proclaimed “hot storage cloud" company, Tuesday said it closed a $70M funding round, making a total of $600M+ invested in the company. This round is has as investor flash storage tech developer Pure Storage. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2kry7dze

Snowflake's planned Observe acquisition will add native observability to its fast-growing AI data platform, closing a long-standing tech partnership that has been in place since Observe’s founding, Observe CEO Jeremy Burton told me. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2kksrr9w

Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPU platform, unveiled at CES, drew strong interest from enterprises and tech partners eager to build next-gen AI infrastructure. @crndotcom.bsky.social looks at nine strategic Nvidia vendor partners looking to build out the Rubin ecosystem. tinyurl.com/j5p3wma6

TD Synnex's Hyve custom server/storage biz delivered standout performance in the IT distributor’s fiscal 4Q25 with over 50% growth in gross billings driven largely by hyperscaler data center investments, company CEO Patrick Zammit told @crndotcom.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mrmm8479

A booming growth in the Hyve custom server, storage and networking tech for building hyperscale data centers business of TD Synnex lifted the IT distribution powerhouse to record fourth fiscal quarter revenue and earnings. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/uaty7c5s

Humble pie? Following its move last year to rebrand nearly all its PC lines, Dell is bringing back its #XPS brand for consumer PCs and reviving its #Precision brand for commercial PCs. The company also talked about AI PC challenges. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/cz223jct

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2wkf5bc4

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. Read the full Q&A @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrcv2fhr

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mn3n5uh8

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mr2mm376

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yskaf6ww

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...

Global technology services provider DXC Technology unveiled AdvisoryX, a new global advisory group targeting enterprises’ complex strategic, operational, and technology challenges, particularly around AI. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4cza3wr2

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/356apkvt

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4x2n4k2d

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n6tjnws

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. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yfsztx37