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• Eucalyptus 3.3 Brings Amazon Web Services Features To Private Clouds
  4:16 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  Open source private cloud player Eucalyptus rolls out the first update since December to its platform, which supports Netflix as well as a range of Amazon Web Services technologies.
• 10 Key Android Jelly Bean Traits For VARs
  10:00 AM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean delivers thousands of new features, including beaming, multiple users and lock-screen widgets, and is the most powerful and versatile version yet.
• 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.
• Project Savanna Aims To Bring Hadoop To OpenStack Clouds
  6:47 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  OpenStack integrator Mirantis teams up with Red Hat and Hortonworks to give organizations a cloud-based Hadoop alternative to Amazon.
• 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.
• Partners Say SugarCRM Is Listening And Channel Efforts Are Back On Track
  11:20 AM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  SugarCRM partners say things are turning around after a turbulent, months-long period in which they questioned the company's commitment to the channel and their role in its go-to-market strategy.
• OpenStack Summit: 10 Vendors Putting Storage Front And Center
  10:50 AM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  When clouds based on the open-source OpenStack code are built, there will be no lack of storage thanks to the rush by storage vendors to be a part of the OpenStack ecosystem.
• HP Teams With VAR Bedrock Technologies On HP SDN-Tech Presentation
  6:23 PM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  HP and solution provider Bedrock Technologies on Friday teamed up to do what they are calling the first channel presentation of HP's SDN technology to customers.
• 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.
• VMware, Canonical Teaming Up For OpenStack Compatibility
  4:45 PM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  VMware and Canonical unveiled a new collaboration that will allow vSphere and Nicira to work with Ubuntu cloud infrastructure, in the last example of VMware getting open source religion.
• OpenStack Cloud Infrastructure Developer Cloudscaling To Intro First Channel Program
  6:23 PM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  Cloudscaling plans to use this week's OpenStack Summit to unveil a new program aimed at helping solution providers develop open source clouds based on the OpenStack platform.
• HP Brings Fibre Channel Storage To OpenStack Clouds
  1:43 PM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  HP cited the importance of connecting Fibre Channel storage to OpenStack clouds in the release of new Fibre Channel APIs for its HP 3PAR StoreServ and its StoreVirtual storage technologies.
• Five Companies That Came To Win This Week
  2:00 PM EST Fri. Apr. 05, 2013
  For the week ending April 5, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Facebook Unveils 'Home' Software For Android Phones
  4:00 PM EST Thu. Apr. 04, 2013
  It's not a "Facebook Phone" but a new software product that will sit on top of Android's lock and home screens and more deeply integrate Facebook into the mobile device.
• Pivotal CEO Maritz Denies Any Knowledge Of VMware's Project Zephyr
  3:48 PM EST Wed. Apr. 03, 2013
  Pivotal Initiative CEO says he has "no idea" what VMware's Project Zephyr IaaS is, but according to sources, he was the main driver of the VMware-run IaaS initiative.
• IBM Set To Launch Hadoop-Ready PureSystems Server
  12:01 AM EST Wed. Apr. 03, 2013
  Other 'big data' analysis and management technologies will be unveiled Wednesday under the "BLU Acceleration" name.
• Red Hat Taps Ex-Microsoftie To Lead OpenStack, Virtualization Efforts
  6:02 PM EST Tue. Apr. 02, 2013
  Red Hat names former Microsoft Azure exec to lead its global virtualization infrastructure business, as well as its increasingly close work with the OpenStack community.
• Carbonite's New Database Backup Service To Go Through Partners
  11:16 AM EST Mon. Apr. 01, 2013
  Carbonite is offering the service, based on technology from last year's Zamanda acquisition, through its 3,000 reseller partners.
• Facebook Phone? Social Networking King To Hold 'Android' Event Next Week
  4:57 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  Facebook won't be building its own smartphone hardware or mobile OS, according to reports, but instead will be introducing something else related to Android.
• Tablet Timing: HP Delays Slate 7 Launch
  3:10 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  Originally scheduled for April, the HP Slate 7's release date has been pushed back to June. No word yet on what has caused the delay for HP's first Android tablet.
• MapR, Canonical Team To Offer Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux
  12:24 PM EST Fri. Mar. 29, 2013
  The two companies also are developing a Canonical Juju Charm for deploying MapR Hadoop within private and public cloud computing environments.
• PayPal Says It's Not Ripping, Replacing VMware For OpenStack
  4:53 PM EST Thu. Mar. 28, 2013
  A PayPal executive tries to clear the air after recent reports suggested it and parent company eBay were poised to ditch VMware software in favor of OpenStack.
• Free Firefox Phones For Developers: Get 'Em While They Last
  5:49 PM EST Tue. Mar. 26, 2013
  Free phones are available to HTML5 developers who attend Firefox application workshop. Do you qualify?
• Big Data Player MapR Technologies Raises $30M In VC Funding
  6:18 PM EST Tue. Mar. 19, 2013
  An industry report says big data startups have attracted almost $5 billion in venture financing in just five years.
• Fusion-io Buys ID7 In Software-Defined Storage Play
  5:52 PM EST Mon. Mar. 18, 2013
  Fusion-io aims to up the ante with the acquisition of the developer of the open-source iSCSI target software that's at the heart of the Linux OS used by several major storage vendors.