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Cisco Restructuring Pays Off: Q2 Profit Jumps, More M&A Expected
A year of restructuring and removing $1 billion in op-ex is powering Cisco's growth in its fiscal 2012, according to CEO John Chambers.
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Microsoft Sets Windows 8 Consumer Preview Release Date
An event in Europe marks the first time the PC OS will be available beyond the developer community.
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HP Execs: iPad Is Not Secure Enough For Enterprises
Windows 8 tablets are not expected to arrive until the latter part of the year, but HP CEO Meg Whitman and PSG chief Todd Bradley are touting security as a key advantage.
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Acer Sues Former CEO, Alleging Breach Of Noncompete Clause
Acer is seeking damages from its former CEO and current Lenovo EMEA head Gianfranco Lanci.
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CRN Interview: Whitman's Plans To Get HP Back On Track
HP CEO Meg Whitman has put out her share of fires since taking the helm, and in a recent interview with CRN she talks about her plan to keep HP on a stable course.
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10 Challenges That HP Wants Partners To Tackle Right Now CRN speaks with HP's business unit chiefs to get a sense of where they'd like partners to focus in the coming year, as well as how CEO Meg Whitman is making a difference. |
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VAR500: IBM Strikes Deal With Ukraine Bank; HP Bolsters Health-Care Practice CRN VAR500 solution providers win health-care contracts, work on European banking solution, create a platform for microlending, sharing info on cloud computing and more. |
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VAR's Guide To Pros And Cons Of Migrating Data To The Cloud From accessibility to horsepower to latency, VARs have to deal with a lot of issues when moving customers' data to the cloud. Here's one VAR's take on how to handle them. |
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- Red Hat Releases Virtual Storage Appliance For Amazon AWS
Customers can use the new Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance with POSIX-compliant applications to work on data stored in the Amazon AWS cloud without the need to rewrite those applications. - VARs Plan 'Divide And Conquer' To Cover Next Week's HP, VMware Conferences
The overlap in HP and VMware VAR communities means that partners are devising "divide and conquer" strategies in order to attend both vendors' partner conference next week in Las Vegas. - Polycom Names Electronic Arts Veteran Its New CFO, COO
Yet more executive changes come at Polycom, this time a new CFO and COO. - TNCI Seeks To Emerge From Chapter 11 By Summer
The Boston-based TNCI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on October 9, 2011. - Oracle Debuts Analytical Software For 'Big Data' Tasks
New Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data offers channel partners a platform for developing applications and services for leveraging Big Data. - HootSuite Launches Channel Program For Enterprise Social Media Solutions
With HootSuite Enterprise, VARs can help end users develop and analyze social media activity about the company. - Nokia To Cut 4,000 Manufacturing Jobs In 2012
Noka says the layofffs are part of a larger restructuring plan that arose from a review of its smartphone manufacturing operations. - AMD Announces Two-Year Roadmap To Enter Tablet Space
AMD has announced a two-year roadmap for its low power APUs, but won't be able to scale down to two watts -- the max power level to run devices as thin as an iPad -- until 2014. - Symantec Says Anonymous Behind Extortion Plot
Symantec says a group affiliated with hactivist collective Anonymous tried to extort $50,000 from the company to keep stolen product code off the Internet. - VMware Brings Partners Auto Provisioning Of Cloud Services
Service providers can use VMware's new vCloud Integration Manager to provide their reseller partners with a catalog of services which can be presented to customers who can then automatically provision those services themselves.
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