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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.
• Report: Top Microsoft Investors Want Gates To Relinquish Chairman Role
  1:27 PM EST Wed. Oct. 02, 2013
  Bill Gates is reportedly under pressure from large shareholders to step down as chairman, in what amounts to the latest sign that massive changes are coming at the software giant.
• 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.
• 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.
• Oracle OpenWorld: Ellison Touts New In-Memory Database Technology
  10:42 AM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  Oracle's new in-memory database technology promises to increase database query speed by 100 times or more, along with double the transaction performance, said CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld.
• 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.
• 5 Companies That Had A Rough Week
  1:00 PM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  For the week ending Sept. 13, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• New Salesforce Service Plays Nice With Third-Party Cloud Storage
  6:57 PM EST Thu. Sep. 05, 2013
  Salesforce.com is currently running beta for service that tackles IT challenges of making files stored on cloud systems more readily accessible for business.
• 30 Notable IT Executive Moves: August 2013
  11:15 AM EST Wed. Sep. 04, 2013
  August saw plenty of executive shakeups, including more departures and new faces at Microsoft.
• The Next Microsoft CEO? 10 Potential Candidates To Replace Ballmer
  4:00 PM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  Steve Ballmer plans to retire within the next 12 months. Is the next chief executive of Microsoft on this list?
• 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.
• GreenPages Is On The Acquisition Trail
  9:47 AM EST Tue. Aug. 06, 2013
  GreenPages CEO Ron Dupler says the pace of change in the IT market has many traditional solution providers looking at making a deal to compete in the hybrid cloud era.
• Follow The Money: 10 Recent Tech VC Investments To Watch In July
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Jul. 29, 2013
  CRN tracks venture capital investments that drive products and strategies in the technology industries. Key sectors for the month include big data analytics, mobile software, applications and content management.
• Egnyte Adds Enterprise File Sync And Share To Google Drive
  2:52 PM EST Fri. Jul. 19, 2013
  Egnyte, in conjunction with Google Docs, can now allow business-class file sync and share capabilities for files stored on premises and in the cloud.