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• Adobe Halts Packaged Software Development, Tells Partners To Embrace The Cloud
  1:53 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Adobe will no longer develop its Creative Suite applications beyond the current CS 6 release, and will focus instead on its Creative Cloud applications.
• Dell Buys Hybrid Cloud Management Provider
  11:54 AM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  Dell adds Enstratius to its arsenal, in what could be a critical technology weapon in the battle to provide hybrid cloud management.
• 5 Companies That Dropped The Ball This Week
  1:45 PM EST Fri. May. 03, 2013
  For the week ending May 3, CRN looks at five companies that were either asleep at the wheel or just didn't make good decisions.
• 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.
• VMware Channel Chief Departs, Now Leading Partner Sales At Virtual Instruments
  3:45 PM EST Wed. May. 01, 2013
  Doug Smith, VMware's highly regarded channel chief and former EMC executive, becomes the latest VMware executive to jump ship for greener pastures.
• Citrix Overhauls Channel Program, Increases Sales Requirements For Top Partners
  12:00 PM EST Wed. May. 01, 2013
  Citrix says its channel program changes are aimed at better compensating partners that specialize in selling cloud and networking products, as well as SaaS apps.
• 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 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.
• NetSuite Reports 50-Percent Channel Sales Growth In Q1
  7:15 PM EST Thu. Apr. 25, 2013
  CEO promises to 'surprise the market' with channel-related announcements at next month's SuiteWorld conference.
• VMware Exec: Don't Confuse Our Public Cloud Trial With Production Service
  7:28 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  A top VMware executive tries to clear the air over the differences between its public cloud trial service unveiled last August and the product-grade service that's slated for launch next month.
• 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.
• 8 Signs That Amazon Is In Other Cloud Vendors' Heads
  2:00 PM EST Wed. Apr. 24, 2013
  Amazon Web Services has a multiyear head start on the competition, and everyone knows it. Some vendors are openly taking on Amazon, while others are pretending they're not. But really, they all are.
• VMware Cuts Revenue Guidance After Q1 Profit Drops 9 Percent
  9:02 PM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  VMware continues to sail through rough waters, but executives struck an optimistic tone about the upcoming Hybrid Cloud Service and NSX network virtualization releases.
• 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.
• Egnyte, NetApp Partner On Enterprise File Sharing, Synchronization
  6:00 AM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  Egnyte has joined NetApp's partner program for service providers, making it easier for solution providers to deploy Egnyte's enterprise file sharing and synchronization technology on NetApp storage infrastructures, including NetApp Clustered Ontap, for both cloud and on-premises solutions.
• 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.
• Microsoft Stock Up 4 Percent After Investment Firm Takes $2B Stake
  12:15 PM EST Mon. Apr. 22, 2013
  Microsoft shares reached $31.18 Monday, up $1.42 compared with the previous close. It isthe first time Microsoft shares have hit the $30 mark since last October.
• 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.
• Condusiv To Release Server I/O Acceleration Tech
  7:24 PM EST Fri. Apr. 19, 2013
  The new V-locity Server from Condusiv, formerly known as Diskeeper, is targeting the management of Microsoft's SQL Server and Exchange I/Os as a way to accelerate those applications' performance.
• 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.'
• Despite Windows 8 Availability, Enterprises Transitioning From XP To 7
  7:48 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Non-OEM Windows revenue increased 40 percent, thanks in large part to sales of Surface and continued double-digit growth in Windows volume licensing.
• Bluewolf Thinks Outside The Box To Hire New Talent Fresh From Campaign Trail
  3:39 PM EST Thu. Apr. 18, 2013
  Seeing parallels between election campaigns and today's dynamic business environment, Bluewolf snagged some key people from the Obama organization after the election to staff up its Chicago office.