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• EMC Updates Isilon Storage Platform For Mobility, Cloud, Analytics
  4:02 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  EMC is adding mobility, cloud and big data analytics capabilities to its EMC Isilon scale-out NAS platform, and it plans to add dedupe and auditing capabilities by year-end.
• SAS Takes Its Business Analytics Software To The Cloud
  10:34 AM EST Wed. May. 01, 2013
  The company also unveils high-performance business analytics applications and discloses plans for a BI appliance jointly developed with Teradata.
• 20 Hot Midmarket Products Seen At MES East 2013
  2:00 PM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  MES East 2013 provides a haven for tech vendors to showcase their wares to the midmarket. See where the biggest product opportunities lie.
• Upping The Big Data Ante: HP Creates Converged Systems Unit
  12:38 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  The new HP unit brings together a variety of resources to deliver big data 'converged application appliances,' including systems based on Apache Hadoop, HP Vertica, SAP HANA and HP Cloud System.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For April
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  From predictive analytics to cloud and mobile application performance management to "big data" storage for SMBs, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• Channel Beat: Inside Pivotal's Coming Out Party (Video)
  12:29 PM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  This week's recap also looks at the latest on Dell's move to go private as well as Apple's interesting second-quarter earnings.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:10 AM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  For the week ending April 26, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Revolution Analytics Sees Big Data Solutions Moving Into SMB Arena
  6:10 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Company's new Revolution R Enterprise 6.2 edition offers new capabilities for handling huge volumes of data.
• Dell Updates PartnerDirect For Software VARs
  4:30 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  In the fall, Dell plans to add four software-related competencies under PartnerDirect: Security, Systems Management, Data Protection and Information Management.
• Startup SkyKick Brings Migration Automation To Office 365
  3:40 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  SkyKick estimates a typical migration to Office 365 might take 40 hours of a solution provider's time. That can be reduced down to a couple of hours with the company's new suite, said executives.
• GE Bets Big On EMC/VMware-Backed Pivotal Big Data Venture
  1:38 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Pivotal, the new big data company forged by EMC and VMware, launches today with word that General Electric is investing over $100 million in the venture.
• Amazon Vs. Pivotal: 5 Reasons Maritz Beats Bezos In Big Data Battle
  6:03 PM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  In the battle for big data, CRN looks at five reasons why the new EMC VMware backed Pivotal is going to beat Amazon in the big data applications and services market.
• Paul Maritz's 10 Commandments Of Big Data
  6:30 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  It's not easy building a platform that will launch thousands of new big data applications and services, but that is just what Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz is doing.
• A Big Data Partner Revolution: Maritz On Vertical Expertise, Education
  3:45 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  Interested in in establishing a beachhead in the big data market? Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz offers solution providers a few thoughts on vertical expertise and education.
• Big Data Buy: Pentaho Picks Up Development Partner Webdetails
  2:25 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  With the addition of Webdetails technology, Pentaho partners see opportunity to acquire a broader business analytics system.
• 2013 Channel Champs: Overall Winners
  2:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  The CRN Channel Champions study highlights solution provider satisfaction with their vendor partners' products and services.
• Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
  5:55 PM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  For the week ending April 19, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• CRN Exclusive: Paul Maritz's Plan To Take Over Big Data
  2:00 PM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  Paul Maritz is known for avoiding technology hyperbole. But even he knows that his big data business applications play is no small experiment.
• IBM Plans Product Line Divestitures, Employee Cutbacks After Disappointing Q1
  6:55 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  First-quarter results are called "disappointing" after the company failed to close key mainframe and software contracts worth $400 million.
• Follow The Money: 21 Big Data Startups That Have Scored Big In Venture Funding This Year
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Dot.Com Redux? There's been a free flow of millions of dollars in venture capital to "big data" startups recently. Here's 21 that have scored big since the start of the year.
• Big Data Analytics Startup Gainsight Gets New CEO, Raises $9 Million
  11:20 AM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Gainsight, previously known as JBara Software, is now being led by former LiveOffice CEO Nick Mehta.
• Cisco To Partners: These Five Things Could (And Should) Be Changing Your Business Models
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Apr. 17, 2013
  For the channel, shifts in technology are a cake walk compared to shifts in business models. According to Cisco, here are five business-model transformations sweeping the channel today that partners may not want to -- but should -- embrace.
• The 2013 Big Data 100
  1:00 PM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  Here we present CRN's inaugural Big Data 100 list, identifying vendors that have demonstrated an ability to innovate in bringing to market products and technologies that help businesses manage big data.
• IBM Invests $1B In Flash Storage With 'Channel-First' Strategy
  7:52 PM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  IBM wants to build flash technology optimized for such modern applications as social media, mobility and big data, and it's prepared to invest $1 billion to do so starting with last year's acquisition of Texas Memory Systems and continuing through 2015.
• Big Data 100: Business Analytics
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  Part 3 of CRN's Big Data 100 looks at the best of the best in the big data business analytics space.