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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 Clears FedRAMP Hurdle, Sets Sights On Big Government Cloud Deals
  8:10 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Microsoft closes in on full federal government security authorization for cloud services, and trumpets the fact that it's getting it for both infrastructure and platform services.
• 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.
• 10 Key Takeaways From Oracle's Financial Analyst Briefing
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  Key financial metrics, Oracle's product strategy and CEO Ellison's views on cat videos and The Internet of Things were on the agenda.
• 10 Hot Technology Startups For September
  2:00 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  From the latest software for handling big data to visual development tools to software for managing content in e-commerce systems, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• 5 Companies That Had A Rough Week
  12:19 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  For the week ending Sept. 27, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  For the week ending Sept. 27, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Oracle Cloud Gets New Compute, Storage, Database Services
  10:30 AM EST Wed. Sep. 25, 2013
  The Oracle Cloud now has a wide range of new services, and the company is making them available to solution providers on a resell or referral basis.
• HP Rolls Out Big Data Test Drive Service Offering
  6:43 PM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  HP has unveiled a new cloud-based analytics-as-a-service offering aimed at allowing customers to quickly test drive big data solutions.
• 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.
• Microsoft Developer Evangelist Sandquist Jumps To Twitter After 16 Years
  7:24 PM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  Microsoft loses 16-year developer relations veteran to Twitter, where he'll be overseeing the social networking sites ecosystem partnerships.
• 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.
• Facebook's Zuckerberg Says He Worshipped Bill Gates In His Youth
  8:03 PM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  Facebook founder and CEO reveals that his idol growing up was Bill Gates, whom he held in high esteem for having clear vision and executing on it.
• 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.
• Joyent Co-Founder And CTO Leaving To Pursue 'New Ideas And Projects'
  8:18 PM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  Jason Hoffman, co-founder and CTO of cloud vendor Joyent, which sells IaaS, storage and big data services, is leaving the company he started nearly a decade ago.
• 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.
• Mass. Governor Says He Now Supports Repeal And Replace Of Tech Tax
  10:33 AM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  Mass. Governor Deval Patrick has announced that he supports the repeal and replace of the tech tax, but legislators and local businesses worry it won't be enough.
• 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.
• Microsoft Changes Mind, Gives Windows 8 And Windows Server 2012 RTM To Devs
  7:02 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Microsoft partners and developers were frustrated when they didn't get early access to the Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 bits. Now, Microsoft has had a change of heart.
• Round 2: Mass. Republicans File Second Anti-Tech Tax Legislation
  6:49 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Following up on their roundtable discussions, Massachusetts Republicans have filed a second piece of legislation to repeal the state's tech tax.
• SAP Head Of Global Channels Leaves Company
  4:45 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Eric Duffaut, formerly president of SAP's global ecosystem and channels, has left the company after nine years.
• 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.