UiPath reveals 10 percent staff cuts during Daines’ first month as CEO

According to UiPath’s regulatory filing, ‘This workforce reduction is aimed at further enhancing operational efficiency and customer centricity.’

About a month after changing CEOs, business automation platform provider UiPath revealed plans to cut 10 percent of its employee base — that’s about 4,200 employees.

The New York-based vendor said in a regulatory filing that most of the reductions should happen by the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2026 — in April 2025. UiPath is currently in the second quarter of its 2025 fiscal year.
According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), “These workforce reductions are intended to further enhance operational efficiency and customer centricity.” “These changes reflect efforts to reshape the organization by streamlining the company’s structure, particularly in operational and corporate functions, better prioritizing our market investments and focusing our research and development investments on artificial intelligence and driving innovation across our platforms.”
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CRN has contacted UiPath for comment. UiPath makes an offer Partner Program For consultants, system integrators and other partner business models.
UiPath plans to spend $15 million to $20 million on employee termination benefits and $2 million to $5 million on lease termination and other contractual costs, according to the vendor.
The company expects to spend a total of between $17 million and $25 million by the first quarter of fiscal 2026, primarily in cash.
In a report published Tuesday, investment firm William Blair said the layoffs, “while unfortunate, may help reshape the organization and keep pace with the market,” after the company significantly lowered its growth forecast last quarter.
“We believe this announcement reflects UiPath’s objective to drive greater operational efficiency (removing some unnecessary operational layers from the organization) while maintaining top-line growth,” the report states. “Overall, we believe management’s commitment to focusing on profitability is a step in the right direction as the company adjusts to a more challenging environment.”
The firm maintained its “market perform” rating for the vendor, saying UiPath “requires greater visibility into large renewals and sales execution consistency” despite its “leadership position in the market for automation technology (which) will help the company deliver sustainable growth and expand margins over time.”
The layoffs come after UiPath co-founder and chief innovation officer Daniel Dines returned to the CEO position on June 1, replacing former CEO Rob Ensslin.
In UiPath’s most recent quarterly earnings call in May, Dines highlighted UiPath’s work with partners, particularly global systems integrators, according to the transcript.
Dines said, “Partners remain a key pillar of our go-to-market strategy, and GSI is building a long-term differentiated business with us.” He highlighted the company’s work with Accenture, No. 1 CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 includes the expansion of UiPath’s role with an energy company and EY’s work on a digital transformation plan with an Ireland-based private health insurer.
“We have a lot to do on the partnership side of the business,” Dines said during the call, according to the transcript.

The UiPath opportunity in AI

A June report from William Blair, based on conversations with UiPath Chief Financial Officer Ashim Gupta, said the vendor had changed “sales rep compensation structures” and was removing unnecessary layers from its go-to-market pipeline to make the organization more agile” due to “recent execution issues” and “deal misses and pressure on large deals during the first quarter.”
According to the report, “UiPath believes these changes can be implemented over the next several quarters (not years) and noted that the reduction in the number of sales representatives remains in line with historical trends.”
In the race for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), UiPath has “seen an adoption rate of over 70 percent for autopilot expressions within its pilot group” and “believes that gen AI will have additional long-term benefits as business users will be able to create more complex automation and achieve higher ROI for the platform.”
Its intelligent document processing and test suite tools have made “solid progress,” according to the report.
UiPath competes with ServiceNow in about 1 percent of deals, and with Microsoft’s Power Automate offering in lower-complexity robotic process automation (RPA) use cases, William Blair reports, but “it does not believe the competitive environment is causing weakness in larger deals, as its win rate remains consistent with historical levels.”
According to the report, the economy has “impacted larger multi-year deals, as sales cycles have lengthened and clients are placing greater scrutiny on deals.”
Customers spending more than $100,000 on the platform “are using at least one solution outside of RPA,” and IDPs “are starting to bring larger deals to the platform.”
Still, according to the report, “UiPath highlighted that it is still primarily replacing point solution RPA solutions or converting greenfield opportunities while bringing new customers to the platform.”
UiPath is not alone in being one of the tech vendors reducing headcount in the middle of the calendar year. Layoff plans have also been reported Microsoft And OpenText,

WWT CEO worries about ‘unhappy’ Broadcom VMware customers looking for alternatives, WWT ‘tripling’ AI initiatives

,[Broadcom’s] “This has been an incredibly successful company,” says WWT CEO Jim Cavanaugh. “They have a strategy and an approach that they take. But I can tell you it’s not appealing to the vast majority of customers — the vast majority. Customers are looking for alternatives.”

Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of a $20 billion tech powerhouse Worldwide technologyIt is “tripling up” on AI initiatives, expanding partnerships with AI leaders like Nvidia and HPE, and helping “unhappy” people VMware by Broadcom Customers look for alternative solutions.
“A lot of customers are unhappy with the approach that VMware-Broadcom has taken,” Kavanaugh said. CEO of WWTEdit And the channel veteran said this in an interview with CRN.
,[Broadcom’s] has been an incredibly successful company. They have a strategy and an approach that they take. But I can tell you, it’s not appealing to the vast majority of customers — the vast majority,” the WWT CEO said. “Customers are looking for alternatives.”
St. Louis-based WWT is one of the world’s largest solutions providers, ranking 7th CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500 is included in the list, and it has been a longtime partner of VMware. However, later Broadcom’s Following its $61 billion acquisition of VMware last year, Broadcom implemented significant channel and go-to-market changes, including Ending VMware’s Partner Program, rising prices and thousands of VMware’s biggest customers Direct, with just a few changes to name.
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WWT is now helping customers who want to work with Broadcom’s new VMware, but it is also moving many customers off VMware and into the public cloud or other clouds. VMware Alternatives Such as NutanixBroadcom declined to comment on the matter.
“Let me tell you, I’ve had a couple of executive briefings this week and one of the themes is, ‘How can we help our people? [VMware customers]“We have a plan, a methodology and an approach that will help them consider these things,” Kavanaugh said.
Another key strategy underway at WWT, which has approximately 10,000 employees and over 55 offices worldwide, is investing significantly in AI Initiatives and doubling down on partnerships with people like nvidiaIn fact, WWT recently won Nvidia’s 2024 Americas AI Enterprise Partner of the Year award.
“We believe that AI is a giant infrastructure accelerator and building out these enterprise capabilities,” he said. “I personally think the generative AI side, the technology side of AI, will be the most transformational technology we’ve ever seen in history.”
In a recent interview with CRN, Kavanaugh explained why this happened wwt To succeed in the future and to do business today with VMware, Broadcom is making “a really disproportionate amount of investment in AI.”

What is your view on VMware right now and what are customers saying? How is Broadcom doing business with VMware?
Doing business with them is a challenge. We are trying to work with an open mind.
We’ve had some discussions with some of the leadership at Broadcom. Occasionally, there’s a glimpse of an opportunity to work together.
But overall, it’s definitely been a challenge. That’s just a small description of what we’re dealing with. We have a lot of customers asking us for help, and how do they deal with this problem? And where do they go?
So that’s a challenge. And a lot of customers are unhappy with the approach VMware-Broadcom has taken.

How are VMware by Broadcom customers feeling right now?
I’m not sitting here and casting stones at anybody. Broadcom has been incredibly successful in the way it goes to market.
I’m not sure if that’s the way I would approach the market if I were them. But still, they’ve been an incredibly successful company. They have a strategy and approach that they follow.
But I can tell you that it’s not appealing to the vast majority of customers – a very large number of customers. Customers are looking for alternatives.
So we’re working with them when we can help them, I would say, keep up with VMware and Broadcom. And where we can’t do that, we’re working with customers to try to find alternatives that are viable options for them.
So this is definitely a challenging area.

What are the options you see being offered by Broadcom to replace VMware? Is it public cloud? Is it some sort of private on-premises data center?
Yeah, you really said it right about what the options are. It’s working closely with the public cloud providers to really build out a capability that’s similar to what VMware is providing.
Another option is to consider a different strategy with regard to containers and open source capabilities.
Looking at other scenarios, it could be a platform like Nutanix.
So there are options, but it’s really specific to the customer’s environment. What are they doing specifically with VMware? Where do they want to go? How fast do they want to move? And how embedded is VMware in their environment.
But let me tell you, I have some executive briefings this week and one of the topics is, ‘How can we help our people? [VMware customers]’We have a plan, a methodology and an approach that will help them consider these things.

Where is WWT investing in 2024 and beyond to continue your growth and success?
This is actually tripling our AI initiatives.
We’re not abandoning all the work that we’re doing. Because we think the infrastructure side of helping organizations build out their enterprise architecture — from voice to video, data center, networking, cybersecurity, compute, storage — all of these things are critical to enabling customers’ infrastructure to enable AI and do it in a very secure, scalable way.
So we believe AI is a huge accelerator of building out infrastructure and enterprise capabilities. There’s a huge opportunity in this.
We are investing a disproportionate amount of money in artificial intelligence (AI) – in the infrastructure in our labs, in our partnerships, and in our consulting, advisory, software development, and data science teams.
Because this is going to happen in the next five to ten years. This is a long-term play. We are just in the early stages of thinking about where this will go.

How can channel partners not be left behind in this AI revolution? How is WWT winning AI deals?
There are going to be a lot of technology changes and you have to pay very close attention to things that may come from Microsoft or Nvidia or others, which will need to be incorporated into your strategy.
We’re working with organizations on the infrastructure side of things — working with some of the large hyperscalers, working with some of the emerging Nvidia cloud providers and cloud AI-as-a-service providers to help them with engineering, architecting, building and deploying their infrastructure.
Then also on the enterprise side, working from an advisory, consulting, software development perspective. Helping them be able to leverage their own data sources, create an integrated data strategy and structure that will start to populate these RAGs [Retrieval-Augmented Generation] models, which will then connect APIs to some larger LLM to leverage their capabilities and services while they build out their on-premise RAG models to drive business outcomes. There are a lot of complexities involved.
So there are a lot of opportunities around AI. But it’s not simple and easy.
What we’re seeing in some enterprise sectors is that companies really need help understanding how to implement these AI platforms, and how they build, design, and architect these platforms. And then, how they’re going to build their RAG models to drive those business outcomes. We’re in the very early stages of that.
I personally think that the generative AI side, i.e. the technology side of AI, will be the most transformational technology ever seen in history.

5 big things to know

AWS is investing billions of dollars in cloud credits in AI startups, while Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are all fighting to make the world’s most popular startups their customers.

Amazon Web Services Putting pressure on the full court Microsoft and by giving Google millions of dollars worth of cloud credits AI Startup The battle for artificial intelligence market share has intensified.
The $100 billion cloud giant recently doubled its revenue. Cloud Credit is offering $100,000 to $200,000 to startups under its AWS Activate program, which aims to attract startups to build on AWS cloud infrastructure.
AWS recently committed $230 million to expand its Generative AI Accelerator startup program, which will give startups the opportunity to receive up to $1 million in cloud credits.
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However, AWS’s biggest competitors Microsoft Azure And Google Cloud is also spending millions of dollars in cloud credits to encourage AI startups to take advantage of its unique AI programs and offerings.

The search for the ‘billion-dollar AI startup’ is on

A top executive at a solutions provider that has partnerships with both Microsoft and AWS said a “billion-dollar AI startup effort” is currently underway between the two companies. Google CloudAWS and Microsoft are all trying to woo AI Startup Companies To become technical experts and build AI products based on their infrastructure.
“Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all literally throwing money at AI startups because they want them to build the next great AI products on their cloud“This is a major achievement,” the top official said, requesting anonymity.
“So if AWS can bring more AI startups to its cloud, that will be more AWS-certified AI experts and technical sales teams in their favor,” he said. “And if they realize that an AI startup is on AWS, that startup will scale on AWS’s cloud, and it will be difficult for them to switch to Azure or Google Cloud.”

What are cloud credits?

Cloud credits help startups and partners develop and grow their businesses, and provide vendors with a range of products and services from AI and machine learning capabilities to server hosting and critical infrastructure.
Most importantly, these credits remove a major financial barrier for many startups by offsetting the costs of critical IT such as compute, storage, databases, AI, etc.
AI startups that are granted cloud credits from a provider will likely become customers of that provider’s AI offerings, e.g. AI models and AI assistantsthe executive officer said.
“I think these cloud credits are really a battle for AI [market share] Who is going to conquer these Innovative AI startups“Because they are a very important market,” the executive said. “It’s more than just winning these startups as customers, it’s about helping these startups build the next best AI product and scale it massively on our cloud.”
CRN takes a deep dive into AWS’ Cloud Credit Blitz, AWS CEO Matt Garman’s thoughts on the growing credits, and the five biggest things you should know about Microsoft and Google’s competing AI credit programs.

AWS increases cloud credits from $100K to $200K; GenAI startups can get $500K
On July 1, startup companies that have raised financial capital in the past 12 months — for example, from a Series A funding round — will be eligible for $200,000 in AWS credits. Startups must join the company’s AWS Activate program.
This is double the $100,000 credit that AWS was previously offering under the program.
It’s also important to note that early-stage or seed-stage startups or startups that haven’t raised capital are also eligible for a $100,000 loan.
AWS also recently launched a new package of benefits within AWS Activate, specifically for generative AI startups. These startups get access to AWS infrastructure to build GenAI applications.
This package includes up to $500,000 in AWS credits that can be used to leverage AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips, as well as reserved capacity for up to 512 Nvidia H100 GPUs through Amazon EC2.

AWS cloud market share declines; Microsoft and Google launch credit programs
The increase in AWS cloud credits comes at a time when the company, a longtime leader in cloud computing, has seen its market share decline slightly over the past few years, while Microsoft and Google’s share has grown.
By the first quarter of 2024, AWS has a worldwide cloud services market share of 31 percent, down from a 33 percent share in the first quarter of 2022, according to data from Synergy Research Group.
By comparison, Microsoft’s global market share is projected to grow from 22 percent in Q1 2022 to 25 percent in Q1 2024.
Google has increased its market share from 10 percent in the first quarter of 2022 to 11 percent in the first quarter of 2024.
To help gain more share of the cloud market, Google, Microsoft, and AWS are each spending millions of dollars offering cloud credits to AI startups to use and innovate on their cloud infrastructure and AI models.
Google Cloud has launched the Google Cloud Program for Startups, which offers $200,000 in cloud credits over two years. Specifically for AI startups, the program is providing up to $350,000 in credits to startups to provide them with Google AI products, foundation models, and infrastructure.
Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Founders Hub program for startups, offering startups $150,000 in Azure cloud credits for free access to generative AI models, including OpenAI GPT-4.
Additionally, Microsoft’s new Alt Capital Generate program provides startups with up to $350,000 in Azure cloud credits, as well as early access to GPUs for AI models.

AWS enables third-party model; extends credit period to three years
AWS recently revamped its AWS Activate startup funding program, adding two new improvements: extending credit expiration and enabling third-party AI models.
AWS now enables credits to be used on third-party AI models that Amazon Bedrock hosts. So now credits can be used on AI models from AI superstar startups like Anthropic, Meta, Cohere, Stability AI, Mistral AI, and AI 21 Labs.
The cloud giant has also extended its loan maturity period from one year to three years.
For example, previously startups had to use $100,000 in credits in a year, else the credits would expire. Currently, the $100,000 in cloud credits will not expire for three years, with AWS saying the move will give startups more flexibility.

AWS invests $230 million in cloud credits for AI startups; up to $1 million per startup
Last month, AWS said it would give away $230 million in AWS cloud credits to generative AI startups as part of its Generative AI Accelerator startup program.
AWS will accept up to 80 early-stage startups globally that are using generative AI to solve complex challenges. The cloud giant will provide AWS credits, mentorship, and education so that startups can scale their use of AI and ML technologies.
GenAI startups can receive credits of up to $1 million. Generative AI startups can leverage the credits to access a range of AWS compute, infrastructure, and AI model services.
“With this new effort, we will help startups launch and grow world-class businesses, providing them with the building blocks they need to launch new AI applications that will impact all aspects of how the world learns, connects, and does business,” Matt Wood, vice president of artificial intelligence products at AWS, said in a statement.
The 10-week Generative AI Accelerator program connects startups with business and technical AWS experts from across industry sectors, earning credits to help them build, train, test, and launch GenAI solutions.

AWS CEO Matt Garman talks cloud credits
On June 13, long-time AWS veteran Matt Garman (pictured) took over as CEO, focusing on AI.
The 18-year AWS veteran last week spoke about his company’s increasing cloud credits to accelerate AI and GenAI.
“It’s no surprise that generative AI is expensive,” Garman said during an interview on CNBC. “So, one of the things that startups were telling us was, ‘Hey, we like your credit program. We like using AWS. … But it’s really hard to scale generative AI at the previous credit amount we were giving.’ So that’s a significant investment for us and that’s why we increased our credit.”
Garman said encouraging AI startups benefits AWS in a number of ways, including growing customers faster and potentially winning new enterprise customers.
“There is a belief that a startup financial services company can outperform a traditional bank [to AWS]”And a number of startups now are really pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in generative AI,” he added. … [Startups] Traditional enterprises may realise that they too need to move fast.
Overall, the new CEO of AWS is investing in AI startups unlike before, with the belief that GenAI is a game-changing technology in the present and future.
“I firmly believe that generative AI will transform every industry in some way, and some of them very materially,” Garman said.

Microsoft’s fiscal year 2025 will begin with layoffs and changes to partner programs

There have been layoffs at Microsoft for a variety of managers, engineers and other positions, based on posts made by users on LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network.

Microsoft’s new fiscal year has begun with a round of layoffs and some changes to its partner program, particularly with regard to specialization requirements.
No trimming is done unusual This is the biggest time of the year for Microsoft. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant began its 2025 fiscal year on July 1 and should report results for the 2024 fiscal year and the final quarter of that year later this month.
Based on posts by users on Microsoft-owned social network LinkedIn, the cuts affect a variety of managers, engineers and other jobs at Microsoft subsidiaries Flip and Nuance, and even in areas related to its fast-growing artificial intelligence (AI) business.
As far as changes to the Partner Program go, the initial announcements on Microsoft’s Partner Center don’t quite reach the level of the New Commerce Experience (NCE), but still have an impact on how solution providers profit as Microsoft partners.
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Microsoft FY 2025

Regarding the layoffs, a Microsoft spokesperson told CRN in an email that “organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and routine part of managing our business.”
“We continue to prioritise and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” the spokesperson said.
CRN has also contacted Microsoft for comment on the changes to the partner program.
The change in the program comes as Microsoft prepares for its MCAPS Start for Partners Digital event on Wednesday.
According to Microsoft, instead of holding a Microsoft Inspire partner-focused event in 2024, the vendor will add partner-focused programming to its Microsoft Ignite customer-focused event in November.
MCAPS Start is an annual event held for vendors in the global Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization. This year, Microsoft has added partner-specific content to MCAPS Start to help solution providers prepare for the year ahead.
The event will include speeches from Judson Althoff, Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief commercial officer, Nick Parker, president of the Industry and Partner Sales (IPS) organization, and Nicole Dejan, chief partner officer and corporate vice president of the Global Partner Solutions organization.
Here’s more information on Microsoft’s latest layoffs and partner program changes.

PTUs are a new buying option

As part of the first batch of changes to Microsoft’s partner program for the new fiscal year, the vendor is adding provisioned throughput units (PTUs) as a purchasing option for Azure OpenAI through self-service and cloud solution provider (CSP) models.
Starting this quarter, CSP partners can transact Azure OpenAI provisioned throughput deployments for customers.
According to Microsoft, hourly payments are possible through Azure Reservations that offer discounts on one-month commitments, one-year commitments, or a mix. This is the first Azure service with a monthly term option for reservations.
According to Microsoft, Azure OpenAI inference model users can also purchase models by paying on a per token fee basis.
Users must fill out the application form to subscribe to Azure OpenAI in the same way they would for a standard, token-based deployment. CSP partners can help their customers manage quotas, create deployments, and purchase reservations through self-service.
Prior to this new PTU option, users purchased reserved capacity in manual, ad-hoc Microsoft field sales contracts with no self-service or partner-supported options. According to Microsoft, the previous method of purchasing PTUs required a one-month lock-in, which alienated users with short-term or intermittent usage needs.
Microsoft will host an online training for CSP partners on Tuesday to explain the new PTU process.

Changes in Certificate for Designations

Several changes to earning a Solution Partner designation and specialization as part of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program go into effect this month.
Partners already enrolled in the affected specializations have until December 31 to meet Microsoft’s new criteria to retain their specializations.
Starting in July, Microsoft has updated the “skills” requirements for Analytics on Microsoft Azure, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure, Teamwork Deployment, and Supply Chain Specialization.
The Analytics specialization on Microsoft Azure now requires holders to pass the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) certification, which will replace the Azure Solutions Architect Specialist (AZ-305) certification.
Business Intelligence specialization now includes Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) certification – The Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate (DP-500) certification expired on April 30. If partners pass the DP-500 exam before April 30, it is still valid.
The Data Warehouse Migration to Microsoft Azure specialization now includes the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) certification – which replaces the Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification.
The Analytics on Microsoft Azure and Data Warehouse Migration for Microsoft Azure specializations also increased the number of certified people from three to five, with a minimum of two people required for each certification.
For those seeking Teamwork deployment expertise, Microsoft has removed the retired Messaging Administrator Associate (MS-203) certification requirement and increased the number of people required to pass the remaining Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700) certification from two to four.
Those seeking supply chain specialization now need the Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations App Developer Associate (MB-500) and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert (MB-335) certifications, not the retired Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Functional Consultant Associate (MB-320) certification. At least one of each of the four certifications must be held by an individual, according to Microsoft.

Viva Glint joins GA

On July 1, Microsoft made its Veeva Glint employee engagement survey product GA available for CSP transactions.
Glint was previously available as part of the Viva Suite stock-keeping unit (SKU) and the Viva Glint Charity SKU. Users must purchase at least 50 seats and a base Entra SKU.
According to Microsoft, “Veeva Glint’s success depends on its consulting and people science services.” “Ideal partners have experience in employee engagement consulting, human capital, people science consulting, or consulting to HR and leadership teams. Partners with experience in complementary Veeva apps like Insights can also expand their practice by enabling their team on Veeva Glint.”

Security, SCS Updates

On July 31, Microsoft will release a new version of its Security Alert application programming interface (API).
According to Microsoft, the Microsoft Graph Security Alerts API V1 (full) version promises a “unified API gateway across Microsoft services.” The vendor will remove the existing Azure Fraud Notification API by the end of the year. A preview, beta version of the new API is available.
This month, Microsoft is starting to mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure users.
And finally, year one extended security updates (ESUs) for SQL Server 2014 are due out starting Wednesday. These ESUs will expire on July 8, 2025, and are intended to ease the transition to new products.
The Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Signature Cloud Support (SCS) benefit, available to partners with the Solution Area Solution Partner designation or who previously purchased a Gold or Silver legacy benefits package, is now officially limited to 50 incidents per year.
According to Microsoft, this limit went into effect on July 1 and will apply to partners when they renew their Solution Partner designation or legacy benefits package.

Layoffs in Nuance, Flip, AI

Multiple LinkedIn users have posted online about layoffs at Microsoft, covering a variety of areas, from gaming to Dynamics 365 and subsidiaries Nuance and Flip.
The employees who were fired from Microsoft include those who had spent just one year in the company as well as senior employees who had worked for 14 years.
The cuts at Flip come as no surprise, as the 12-year-old organization will shut down its website and mobile application by Sept. 30, according to Flip. bought To expand its presence in the education market in 2018.
Flip’s mobile app has been removed from stores as of July 1. According to Flip, Flip’s features are being incorporated into Microsoft Teams for Education.
As far as Nuance is concerned, Microsoft has completed its $19.7 billion investment. acquisition Voice recognition company in 2022.
These are the employees who

  • Employee of 14 years whose most recent position was Technical Program Manager For device services and device repair engineering
  • A senior product Manager Have worked with Microsoft for approximately three years, whose work involves the use of Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Nine-year employee who most recently held the position of Senior Business Product Manager who worked on gaming and learning at Xbox
  • An employee of nine years standing who held the following position Director and “oversaw Microsoft’s AI professional development strategy to empower and support teachers and school leaders on their continuing journey as they impact the lives and futures of the students they work with”
  • An employee of about six years standing who held the position of Head Participated in Microsoft Flip
  • one year employee holding the post of Technical SPECIALIST and worked on the DAX and Dragon offerings from Nuance, a Microsoft subsidiary
  • An employee of two years who held the title of Software engineer and worked on the Bing search engine results page (SERP)
  • An employee working as a level two software engineer for about three years engineer and whose projects included the migration of Microsoft acquisition TechLessons to the Microsoft platform and some Bing projects
  • An employee of about one year who worked as a Regional Account Executive (Hey) was in Central America and came to Microsoft with the Nuance acquisition
  • An employee of about three years holding the position of Director List of Microsoft Partner Delivery Orchestration Center (PDOC) business programs for sales excellence
  • An employee of about five years who worked as an Azure and AI Consultant
  • An employee who has been working as a business program consultant for about four years Manager To comply with government contracts
  • been on staff for nearly three years who served as a teacher innovation lead On Microsoft Flip (formerly Flipgrid)
  • An employee of approximately three years who worked as a Senior Community Lifecycle Product Manager and worked on the flip
The 10 hottest cloud computing startups of 2024 (so far)

CRN has listed the 10 best cloud computing startup companies that are making waves in AI, Kubernetes, multi-cloud networking, and other key cloud markets in 2024.

The need for new and better cloud computing solutions in 2024 is being directly met by startups focusing on infrastructure optimization, artificial intelligence, and cloud management.
From Cloud computing startup Such as Astera Labs And Vultr To Prossimo And WekaHere are 10 cloud companies making waves in an ever-growing market.
Many of these cloud startups are partnering with and/or competing with the top three cloud market share leaders, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, which together have 67 percent of the global market share.
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Cloud infrastructure services market reaches $76 billion
During the first quarter of 2024, enterprise spending Cloud computing infrastructure Services turnover exceeded $76 billion. This represents an increase of 21 percent or $13.5 billion compared to the first quarter of 2023, showing how important cloud computing is to business around the world.
“There are still some economic, currency, and political hurdles to overcome,” John Dinsdale, principal analyst at Synergy Research Group, said in an email to CRN. “However, the underlying strength of the market more than compensates for those hurdles, helped significantly by the impact of generative AI technology and services.”
several of Cloud Startup CRN’s 2024 list includes Computing Solutions for AIGenerative AI and machine learning workloads.
Here are 10 cloud computing IT startup companies What every partner, investor and business should know about in 2024.

Cast AI
Top executive: Yuri Frayman, CEO
Cloud optimization and management startup Cast AI offers a Kubernetes automation platform that helps teams streamline their cloud cost management, operations, and security. Cast AI’s platform uses machine learning algorithms to analyze and automatically optimize clusters in real-time to reduce costs and improve performance to boost DevOps and engineering productivity.
The Miami-based startup said it has cut cloud costs for AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud customers by more than 50 percent.

Celestial AI
top executive: Dave Lazowski, CEO
Celestial AI’s photonic fabric is the industry’s only optical connectivity solution that enables the separation of cloud compute and memory, allowing each component to be leveraged and scaled most effectively. The Santa Clara, California-based startup’s technology delivers greater bandwidth and memory capacity while reducing latency and power consumption compared to optical interconnect options and copper.
This year, the startup raised $175 million in a Series C funding round led by investors like AMD Ventures and Samsung Catalyst to scale up its commercialization.

Corveeve
Top executive: Michael Intrator, CEO
CoreWeave is a specialized cloud provider that offers a massive scale of GPU compute resources on demand on top of a flexible infrastructure. The Roseland, NJ-based startup builds cloud offerings for compute-intensive use cases like AI that can be up to 35 times faster and 80 percent less expensive than the public cloud, the company says.
Corweave aims to empower large language models and generative AI with purpose-built cloud infrastructure at scale. In May, the startup secured $1.1 billion in new funding.

DuploCloud
top executive: Venkat Thiruvengadam, CEO
DuploCloud’s platform translates high-level application specifications into carefully managed cloud configurations, allowing customers to streamline operations while maintaining security, availability, and compliance standards. The San Jose, California-based startup’s DevOps automation platform is designed to make DevOps and infrastructure-as-code accessible to all developers.
The company was founded by senior engineers from Microsoft Azure and AWS.

Prossimo
Top Executive: Ramesh Prabagaran, CEO
Proximo offers simplified multi-cloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise clouds. The San Jose, California-based startup’s stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management — all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking.
Proximo recently launched an AI suite for multi-cloud networking to help enterprises adopt, manage, and troubleshoot AI applications and workloads. The startup supports AI workloads across deep observability, network policy and traffic, end-to-end private connectivity, and application-driven routing.

Pulumi
Top executive: Joe Duffy, CEO
Pulumi’s intelligent cloud management platform helps organisations scale faster, on any cloud and in any programming language. The company said the solution lets customers manage up to 10x more cloud resources at a lower cost than traditional tools, while its Pulumi Insights offering unlocks analytics and discovery across cloud infrastructure and allows AI-powered infrastructure automation.
The Seattle-based startup’s cloud framework for building modern container and serverless cloud applications. Pulumi raised nearly $100 million in funding last year.

Spectro Cloud
Top executive: Tenri Fu, CEO
Spectro Cloud enables customers to manage Kubernetes in production at scale with a platform that gives control of the entire Kubernetes lifecycle across cloud, data center, and edge environments. San Jose, California-based startup Palette is doubling down on AI with the launch of EdgeAI that lets customers build, deploy, and manage a Kubernetes-based AI software stack.
Spectro Cloud is a highly recognized AWS vendor partner with a strong relationship with the cloud giant.

Upbound
Top executive: Bassam Tabbara, CEO
Seattle-based startup Upbound wants to democratize the control plane by allowing engineers to achieve centralized control, governance, and consistency. The control plane company is behind the popular open source project Crossplane, which enables cloud engineers to build their own cloud native platform with infrastructure resources exposed as static APIs for teams to use.
Upbound enables teams to access thousands of resources while gaining centralized control of the entire cloud infrastructure, including any cloud service provider and any cloud native tool.

Vultr
Top executive: JJ Cardwell, CEO
Vultr describes itself as the world’s largest privately owned cloud computing platform, serving 1.5 million customers in 185 countries. Vultr offers a range of cloud computing infrastructure and resources, from bare metal options to GPU compute available on demand.
Backed by parent company Constant, Vultr offers shared and dedicated CPUs, block and object storage, Nvidia cloud GPUs, as well as networking and Kubernetes solutions. The company’s mission is to make high-performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible.
The West Palm Beach, Florida-based startup is constantly expanding its data center footprint to offer its cloud infrastructure to more customers globally. In May, Vultr Talon was launched to offer customers a way to accelerate computing by enabling GPU sharing so that multiple workloads can be run on a single Nvidia GPU.

Weka
Top executive: Liran Zwiebel, CEO
The Weka Data Platform seeks to set the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native architecture that provides seamless data portability across all cloud and on-premises environments. The Campbell, California-based startup transforms static data silos into dynamic data pipelines that help AI, machine learning, and GPU workloads run more efficiently in the cloud, while providing data access from across data centers and multi-cloud environments.
In May, Weka raised $140 million in a Series E funding round, bringing the startup’s total valuation to $1.6 billion.