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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.
• Adapting To The Era Of Big Data And Cloud Requires New Partnerships
  1:50 PM EST Tue. Jun. 18, 2013
  Your customers demand flexibility, making it critical you foster new partnerships with big data and cloud vendors, writes John Ross.
• Channel Beat: HP Embraces Google Apps (Video)
  2:29 PM EST Fri. Jun. 14, 2013
  This week's recap also looks at the big news from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference and the latest on Carl Icahn's bid for Dell.
• 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.
• Knockout Punch: Big Amazon Customer Moves To HP Public Cloud
  1:35 PM EST Thu. Jun. 13, 2013
  Winding down HP's Discover conference, COO Bill Veghte reveals that HP has moved one of Amazon Web Services' biggest customers to the HP enterprise-grade public cloud.
• 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.
• Amazon Web Services Cuts Prices Again
  6:49 PM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  AWS issues sharp price cuts, this time for its relational database service. Partners ponder the implications of cuts in public cloud prices.
• HP Takes On VMware, Amazon With OpenStack Based CloudOS
  1:30 PM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  HP is turning up its web services presence with the launch of HP Cloud Operating System, an OpenStack based offering taking at aim VMware and Amazon.
• 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.
• AVG CloudCare: 5 Cool Features For Remote Virus Protection
  10:15 AM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  Whether managing one store or many, CloudCare is free until customers pay the fee.
• HP CEO Whitman: Expect More Partnerships Like Google Deal
  12:23 AM EST Wed. Jun. 12, 2013
  HP CEO Meg Whitman says customers will see more breakthrough deals like HP's partnership to provide Google Apps For Business as part of HP SMB IT in a Box.
• HP To Bundle Google Apps For Business: Bad For Microsoft, Good For Partners
  7:28 PM EST Tue. Jun. 11, 2013
  While the new HP SMB IT in a Box bundle of HP PCs and printers with Google Apps For Business gives HP a new cloud offering and Google an army of SMB resellers, it also raises questions about the long-standing HP-Microsoft relationship.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A Cloud Services Culture War: Dimension Data Vs. AWS
  8:00 AM EST Mon. Jun. 03, 2013
  Dimension Data is combining big investments in its branded cloud services with its own multivendor systems integration portfolio to give corporate customers what they're missing from Amazon Web Services.
• 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.