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• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:15 AM EST Fri. Oct. 04, 2013
  For the week ending Oct. 4, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Pivotal Makes First Big Move, Acquiring Mobile App Dev Firm Xtreme Labs
  7:37 PM EST Wed. Oct. 02, 2013
  Pivotal, the EMC-VMware-GE joint venture helmed by Paul Maritz, has acquired its first company -- a mobile app development startup that works with Microsoft, Apple, Google and BlackBerry.
• Software, Hardware, High-Speed Sailing: 20 Scenes From Oracle OpenWorld
  4:00 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Oracle OpenWorld, now one of the world's biggest IT conferences, was more interesting than usual thanks to drama around Oracle Team USA's America's Cup win grabbing attention between all the hardware, software and cloud news.
• Microsoft Partners Not Crazy About Ford's Mulally As Next Likely CEO
  7:49 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  With Ford CEO Alan Mulally reportedly leading the pack to become Microsoft's next CEO, partners tell CRN they'd like to see someone with a proven ability to connect with consumers.
• Microsoft's Ballmer Gives Tearful Farewell In Last Company Meeting
  4:13 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage in his final company-wide meeting to give another loud, energetic public appearance and a tear-filled thank you to Microsoft employees.
• 10 Hot Technology Startups For September
  2:00 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  From the latest software for handling big data to visual development tools to software for managing content in e-commerce systems, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle All-In On Big Data
  1:50 PM EST Tue. Sep. 24, 2013
  Regardless of whether customers have experience with big data or not, they can use Oracle software or engineered systems to use Hadoop to manage big data, either directly or through software tools they are more familiar with.
• HP Rolls Out Big Data Test Drive Service Offering
  6:43 PM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  HP has unveiled a new cloud-based analytics-as-a-service offering aimed at allowing customers to quickly test drive big data solutions.
• 20 Odd Tech Startup Names And The Real Stories Behind Them
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Sep. 19, 2013
  As more startups show up on the enterprise tech scene, finding a good name is getting harder. So, some are getting creative. Here's a look at 20 examples of startups that went outside the box.
• Amazon Hit With Friday The 13th Cloud Glitch, But It's Not A Horror Show
  8:08 PM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  Amazon experiences yet another cloud glitch affecting EC2 customers, but the company makes sure to keep everyone up to date on its service status page.
• Salesforce's Oracle Hiring Spree Continues As 17-Year Vet Fernicola Joins Ranks
  5:31 PM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  The path from Oracle to Salesforce.com is well-worn, and longtime enterprise sales guy Anthony Fernicola has become the latest to travel it.
• Joyent Co-Founder And CTO Leaving To Pursue 'New Ideas And Projects'
  8:18 PM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  Jason Hoffman, co-founder and CTO of cloud vendor Joyent, which sells IaaS, storage and big data services, is leaving the company he started nearly a decade ago.
• Microsoft Beefs Up Cloud SharePoint With More Storage, Better Management
  4:10 PM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  SharePoint is one of Microsoft's most successful products, but the cloud-based version has lagged in terms of features. Now Microsoft is moving to close this gap.
• EMC Hires Away Execs From Microsoft, Oracle For Isilon Unit
  8:07 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  EMC has gone poaching to staff up its Isilon Systems network attached storage unit, bringing in storage veterans from Oracle and Microsoft.
• Report: Microsoft Investors Pushing Ford's Mulally, CSC's Lawrie As CEO Candidates
  5:28 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  Does Microsoft need a turnaround of the sort that Alan Mulally pulled off at Ford, and which Mike Lawrie is trying to achieve at CSC? Apparently, some top investors think so.
• SAP Head Of Global Channels Leaves Company
  4:45 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Eric Duffaut, formerly president of SAP's global ecosystem and channels, has left the company after nine years.
• Movers And Shakers: Here's Who Made Gartner's 2013 Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  While Amazon is leading the cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service pack, a number of smaller players are making inroads with innovative technology, and in some cases, marketing. See who made the list.
• VMware Execs: We're Not Really Competing Much With Amazon In Cloud
  5:34 PM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  Remember when VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and COO Carl Eschenbach called out Amazon earlier this year? Well, now they're pretending like that never happened.
• 15 Cloud And Virtualization Products Fueling Buzz At VMworld 2013
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  As VMware moves deeper into storage and network virtualization, its ecosystem partners are showing off a deluge of new products that promise to make IT operate more efficiently -- and faster.
• VMware Preps Software-Defined Data Center For Its Star Turn
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  The term "software defined data center" is still pretty nebulous to many technology companies, but VMware is hoping to change that at its VMworld conference this week.
• Microsoft Taps New Worldwide Support VP As 9-Year Vet Gordon Departs
  10:02 AM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  Barbara Gordon, who spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems before coming to Microsoft, is leaving after nearly a decade, possibly for a job at EMC.
• Get Your Popcorn Ready: Microsoft's Search For New CEO Is Under Way
  7:49 PM EST Fri. Aug. 23, 2013
  As Microsoft looks for a new CEO to replace the departing Steve Ballmer, many industry watchers expect the choice to come from outside the company.
• Former Windows Chief Sinofsky Joins VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz
  4:10 PM EST Thu. Aug. 22, 2013
  Former Windows chief, who left Microsoft abruptly last November, takes a part-time role with one of Silicon Valley's most well known VC firms.
• HP's 'Click To Cash' Tools Paying Off For Partners
  4:03 PM EST Tue. Aug. 20, 2013
  Speaking at XChange 2013, HP's Matt Smith says the company has made deep investments in its iQuote and HP Concierge tools to help partners more quickly close deals.
• Emerging Vendors 2013: Business Applications
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Aug. 15, 2013
  CRN's Emerging Vendors list for 2013, our annual look at hot tech startups, contains a number of vendors that are making a significant impact in the area of business applications.