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Dylan Martin is an associate editor at CRN, where he covers the semiconductor industry and the Internet of Things. He previously wrote about startups and venture capital for BostInno, an American City Business Journals property. Prior to that, he worked for Mainebiz and The Forecaster newspapers. Dylan lives in South Portland, Maine, and enjoys reading books, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and spending time outdoors.
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Why IoT Vendors Are Investing In Consulting, Systems Integration
by Dylan Martin
Hitachi Vantara, PTC and Siemens are among IoT vendors that have recently invested in consulting and systems integration capabilities. CRN dives into the changing market and technology forces behind the trend and how it's impacting solution providers.
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Hitachi Vantara Taps Ex-Cognizant Exec Gajen Kandiah As CEO
by Dylan Martin
With Hitachi Vantara's move towards IoT, its merger with Hitachi Consulting and the coronavirus pandemic accelerating the adoption of digital tools, it makes sense that the company would bring in a services-focused CEO, one partner says of Kandiah's appointment.
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5 Tech Execs On How COVID-19 Has Impacted The IoT Market
by Dylan Martin
CRN talks to executives at Intel, Microsoft, GE Digital, PTC and FogHorn Systems about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the IoT market.
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The 10 Biggest IoT News Stories Of 2020 (So Far)
by Dylan Martin
CRN reviews the most significant happenings in the IoT world of 2020 so far, from a new Cisco acquisition to a halt in sales for one major application by IBM, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Silver Lake, Elliott Management Favor VMware Spin-off From Dell: Report
by Dylan Martin
'Michael [Dell] is always looking at the benefit of his stockholders and his company. There's no doubt there's a strategic rationale as to why he is looking at this, whether it's from a tax perspective, from a shareholder awareness perspective or shareholder value perspective,' one Dell partner says.
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5 Processors Powering The Future Of IoT Applications
by Dylan Martin
With IoT expected to help lead an economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, CRN takes a look at five new processors that are powering future innovations in the industry.
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The 10 Hottest AI Chip Startups Of 2020 (So Far)
by Dylan Martin
As Intel made clear with its $2 billion acquisition of Habana Labs last year, the AI chip startup space is red-hot. CRN goes over 10 startups that are making big moves this year.
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Ampere's New 128-Core Altra CPU Targets Intel, AMD In The Cloud
by Dylan Martin
'If you can scale out to a ton of cores with 128, Ampere Altra Max is going to give you the highest socket performance and the highest overall performance for those applications,' says Ampere executive Jeff Wittich of the chip designer's new 128-core, Arm-based server processors.
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Top 500 Supercomputers: New No. 1 Uses Arm-Based Fujitsu CPUs
by Dylan Martin
British chip designer Arm achieves a major milestone with a new system in Japan becoming the world's fastest supercomputer as Intel and AMD continue to duke it out over the x86 server space. 'If it's an inviting performance-per-dollar formula there, then they eventually get some attention,' an Intel and AMD partner says.
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IoT Security Vendor Armis Starts Services-Focused Partner Program
by Dylan Martin
‘We want to be, frankly, very simple and a joy to do business with, and we want to be as lightweight as possible — we want to transact business easily and simply with our channel partners,’ says Peter Doggart, a former Symantec channel executive who is Armis' new channel chief.
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Microsoft Says CyberX Acquisition Will Boost Azure IoT Security
by Dylan Martin
Microsoft confirms its plans to acquire CyberX, saying the deal will expand its Azure IoT security offerings, including Azure Sentinel, to cover devices in a variety of industrial settings. Multiple reports say the deal is worth roughly $165 million.
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Nvidia A100 Gets Broad Server Support With New PCIe Card
by Dylan Martin
With a new PCIe version of Nvidia's A100, the game-changing GPU for artificial intelligence will ship in more than 50 servers from Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems, Lenovo and other OEMs this year. 'We now have the ability to do mainstream server acceleration as well as scale-up server acceleration,' Nvidia's Paresh Kharya tells CRN.
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The 10 Coolest AI Startups Of 2020 (So Far)
by Dylan Martin
These artificial intelligence startups are making waves in 2020 between new funding rounds, corporate partnerships and product launches.
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8 Big Intel Data Center Announcements: From Cooper Lake To Xe
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant just made several announcements for its data center business, including the launch of its new Xeon Scalable processors and Optane Persistent Memory modules as well as new disclosures around Intel's upcoming Xe GPUs and Habana AI processors.
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