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• IBM Expands Cloud App Offerings To The Executive Suite
  4:58 PM EST Tue. Jun. 18, 2013
  New IBM Social Media Analytics is part of a broader line of cloud software targeting 'C-Level' executives and line-of-business managers.
• Datawatch Boosts Big Data Visualization Capabilities With Acquisition
  11:26 AM EST Mon. Jun. 17, 2013
  Datawatch expects to complete its $31.4 million acquisition of Panopticon in its fourth quarter ending Sept. 30.
• 5 Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  2:25 PM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  For the week ended June 14, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  11:16 AM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  For the week ending June 14, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Microsoft, At Last, Offers Its Office Apps For Apple's iPhone
  10:42 AM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  The new Office Mobile for iPhone is available free to Office 365 subscribers, potentially providing a boost for the cloud application suite. But Microsoft isn't offering a version specifically for the iPad.
• Red Hat Offers Complete Cloud Package, Commercial OpenStack Release
  7:29 PM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  Competition with VMware heats up with a new Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure package and an upgrade for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
• Red Hat CEO: We've Entered A New Era Of Collaborative Innovation
  10:30 AM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  In his Red Hat Summit Keynote, Jim Whitehurst argued that IT managers who buy cloud infrastructure from vendors using "closed, proprietary" development processes risk vendor lock-in.
• Red Hat, Progress Software Enter The PaaS Software Competition
  2:43 PM EST Tue. Jun. 11, 2013
  Progress Software launches its Pacific PaaS platform while Red Hat offers a commercial version of its OpenShift software.
• Channel Chief Vows Increased Partner Focus As BMC Gets Set To Become Private
  2:32 PM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  BMC channel partners are hopeful the company will make good on its plans to move away from its emphasis on direct sales and become more channel-centric.
• Fun And Business: 15 Scenes From Dell Enterprise Forum
  12:51 PM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  The Dell Enterprise Forum gave Dell partners and customers alike a chance to unwind after hearing about the introduction of technologies like the PowerEdge VRTX converged infrastructure solution.
• IBM Partner Puts Big Data To Work At Seattle Children's Hospital
  10:25 AM EST Mon. Jun. 10, 2013
  IBM's PureData System for Analytics is a critical element in the data warehouse system Brightlight Consulting is building for the hospital.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Jun. 07, 2013
  For the week ending June 7, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Salesforce.com Hires Former Oracle Exec Keith Block As President
  9:55 AM EST Fri. Jun. 07, 2013
  Block will oversee Salesforce.com's global sales, customer support and consulting services organizations.
• Cloud App Developer Steelwedge Preps Formal Partner Program
  11:24 AM EST Thu. Jun. 06, 2013
  Steelwedge, a rising star in the sales and operations planning application space, is putting together the marketing and training components of the program for a fall launch.
• Cloudera Adds Search Capabilities To Its Hadoop Big Data Platform
  5:20 PM EST Tue. Jun. 04, 2013
  Channel partners say the addition of search will make Hadoop-stored data available to broader range of information workers.
• New Dell-Oracle Alliance To Bring Engineered Systems To Dell Customers, Partners
  5:04 PM EST Tue. Jun. 04, 2013
  Oracle President Mark Hurd slapped his old company, Hewlett-Packard, in the face by unveiling at the Dell Enterprise Forum a new engineered systems relationship with HP arch-rival Dell to integrate Oracle software with Dell server hardware.
• Is Windows RT At The End Of Its Rope?
  3:04 PM EST Tue. Jun. 04, 2013
  Microsoft is reportedly cutting the price of Windows RT for small tablets, while channel partners say demand for the tablet OS is nonexistent.
• The Need For Speed: IBM Picks Up Cloud Provider SoftLayer
  11:42 AM EST Tue. Jun. 04, 2013
  IBM channel partners see benefits ahead if IBM can adopt SoftLayer's nimble business and channel processes in the fast-moving cloud market.
• Microsoft CIO Out, Reorg Toward Devices And Services In?
  4:22 PM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  CIO Tony Scott is the third senior executive to leave Microsoft recently, joining the retiring CFO Peter Klein and Steven Sinofsky, who left last November as chief of the Windows division.
• TechEd Preview: Hot Products To See From Microsoft And More
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  Microsoft's TechEd conference this week in New Orleans brings together thousands of IT professionals and enterprise developers for hands-on learning and exploring new products around the world of Microsoft. Here's a look at what to expect.
• Dell Enterprise Forum: VARs Look For Future Plans, Wish Michael Dell Was Coming
  8:10 PM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  CEO Michael Dell will not be at next week's Dell Enterprise Forum, formerly known as the Dell Storage Forum, but other Dell execs will hopefully address new product and channel plans and road maps at the event, solution providers said.
• 10 Hot Tech Startups For May
  12:00 PM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  From network virtualization to big data analytics to unified communications hardware, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• 5 Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  11:55 AM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  For the week ending May 31, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. May. 31, 2013
  For the week ending May 31, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• BlackBerry's Future: Smartphones Or MDM?
  5:50 PM EST Thu. May. 30, 2013
  BlackBerry is delving deeper in enterprise mobility management with new solutions for Android and iOS devices. Is there a future for BlackBerry beyond smartphones?