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• BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal
  11:25 AM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  BMC Software, a supplier of data center management tools, expects the $46.25-per-share deal to close by the end of the year.
• Perficient Picks Up TriTek, Extends IBM Service Offerings
  10:47 AM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  The deal will extend Perficient's service capabilities in content management and business process management in the IBM market and boost its market presence in the Northeast.
• Xeround Plans Cloud Database Service Shutdown
  12:20 PM EST Fri. May. 03, 2013
  While Xeround said it will "re-focus" its direction, its CEO declined to offer details about the company's future or the reasons behind its service discontinuation.
• Novell Aims To Make Some Noise With New Mobile File-Sharing App
  11:20 AM EST Tue. Apr. 30, 2013
  Partners see the new Filr service as a natural extension of Novell's expertise in file sharing and network access technology.
• 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.
• CA Sees Partner Opportunities In Hybrid Cloud Environments
  11:20 AM EST Fri. Apr. 26, 2013
  At its CA World conference this week the company stepped up its efforts to help solution providers expand into managed services and hybrid IT environments.
• 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.
• IBM's UrbanCode Buy Gives Boost To ISVs, Cloud Service Providers
  10:26 AM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  Today it's all about delivering software faster and more cheaply, says IBM, and UrbanCode's technology is key to helping partners meet that demand.
• SAP Nears 40 Percent Channel Sales Goal But Misses Q1 Expectations
  11:45 AM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  SAP reports first-quarter results that fall short of expectations, but Co-CEO Bill McDermott touts cloud growth and says 'partner-driven revenue comprises more than 38 percent of SAP's license revenue.'
• 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.
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Challenges Amazon On Price, Reliability
  1:06 PM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  Channel partners see cost benefits and uptime service-level agreements as a competitive advantage they can offer their customers.
• Netflix Yells 'Cut' On Using Microsoft Silverlight For Development
  9:57 AM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  Netflix will accelerate the transition to HTML5, despite Microsoft's promise to support Silverlight through 2021.
• JBoss Data Grid 6.1: High Availability, Faster Recovery
  3:10 PM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  Red Hat adds data-center replication to its in-memory database.
• Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:30 AM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  For the week ending April 12, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• 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.
• CA Sues AppDynamics For Patent Infringement
  12:15 PM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  Lawsuit alleges that AppDynamics' application performance management software violates three patents CA acquired when it bought Wily Technology in 2006.
• Big Data Boon: MarkLogic Pulls In $25 Million In VC Funding
  10:53 AM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  The NoSQL database developer is the latest in a string of small big data-focused companies to raise a significant amount of venture capital.
• Oracle Upgrades Business Analytics, Endeca Offerings
  3:18 PM EST Mon. Apr. 08, 2013
  Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.0 is the first major release of the software since Oracle acquired Endeca Technologies in December 2011.
• Are You Up To The Challenge? Seizing Big Opportunities In Big Data
  10:30 AM EST Mon. Apr. 08, 2013
  Solution providers are still trying to pinpoint exactly where the big data opportunities lie, but these two things will be key: investing in new technical skills and forging partnerships along the way.
• Big Data In The Enterprise: 7 Shocking Truths
  3:00 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  Putting some numbers around just how widespread -- and perhaps how legitimate -- the big data buzz really can help identify the challenges ahead.