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• Nutanix Seeks Partners To Help With Scale-Out Data Center Vision
  12:43 PM EST Tue. May. 07, 2013
  Nutanix, a fast-growing converged infrastructure startup, is looking to build out its North American partner ranks with partners ready to embrace its scale-out data center philosophy.
• BMC Going Private In $6.9 Billion Deal
  11:25 AM EST Mon. May. 06, 2013
  BMC Software, a supplier of data center management tools, expects the $46.25-per-share deal to close by the end of the year.
• IBM 'Superlab' Staff Still Bracing For Transfer To Lenovo
  6:02 PM EST Fri. May. 03, 2013
  IBM's x86 server talks with Lenovo may have broken down, but employees in IBM's massive 'Superlab' facility in Research Triangle Park are still preparing to transition over to Lenovo on June 1.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  1:25 PM EST Fri. May. 03, 2013
  For the week ending May 3, CRN looks at five companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• 10 Tough Questions: Partners Ask, HP's Top Executives Answer
  6:10 PM EST Thu. May. 02, 2013
  As HP rolls out a new, simplified pay-for-performance PartnerOne program, its top executives, led by CEO Meg Whitman, answer any and all questions from partners in a 90-minute Webcast.
• Report: IBM-Lenovo x86 Server Acquisition Talks Break Down
  8:53 PM EST Wed. May. 01, 2013
  IBM's talks with Lenovo to sell off parts of its x86 server business to Lenovo have broken down, though it's possible they could continue at some point, according to a report.
• 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.
• HP Enterprise Boss Rallies Partners To Capitalize On IBM, Dell Uncertainty
  6:17 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  HP Enterprise Group Executive Vice President Dave Donatelli says the time is right for partners to capitalize on the uncertainty surrounding IBM and Dell.
• 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.
• Upping The Big Data Ante: HP Creates Converged Systems Unit
  12:38 PM EST Mon. Apr. 29, 2013
  The new HP unit brings together a variety of resources to deliver big data 'converged application appliances,' including systems based on Apache Hadoop, HP Vertica, SAP HANA and HP Cloud System.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• HP Reshuffles Printer And Systems Channel, SMB Duties
  8:18 PM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  HP is lining up all its printer and personal systems channel responsibilities under its U.S. channel chief and all of its customer-facing sales teams under another top executive.
• APC: A 20-Year Channel Champ
  10:15 AM EST Tue. Apr. 23, 2013
  On the strength of its partner relationships, APC by Schneider Electric celebrates its 20th consecutive year as a CRN Channel Champion honoree.
• 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.
• Red Hat Nudges Its OpenStack Release Closer To Finish Line
  2:43 PM EST Tue. Apr. 16, 2013
  Red Hat moves its commercial OpenStack preview into a 90-day free evaluation program for early adopters and begins looking for hardware and software partners to support it.
• Dell Makes Big SDN Play With New Fabric Technologies
  11:10 AM EST Mon. Apr. 15, 2013
  Dell's new Networking Active Fabric solutions will go head-to-head with a growing number of converged networking and SDN technologies from rivals including Cisco and HP.
• Cisco Partners: Four Years In, UCS Has Been A 'Game Changer'
  5:14 PM EST Fri. Apr. 12, 2013
  With the launch of its Unified Computing System in 2009, Cisco went from nowhere to No. 3 in the blade server market -- and brought its channel along for the ride.
• CA Sues AppDynamics For Patent Infringement
  12:15 PM EST Thu. Apr. 11, 2013
  Lawsuit alleges that AppDynamics' application performance management software violates three patents CA acquired when it bought Wily Technology in 2006.
• Linux Foundation Unveils Project To Build Open, Programmable Network
  4:48 PM EST Wed. Apr. 10, 2013
  Are we seeing a new day for software-defined networking?
• 10 Virtualization Startups Getting Attention Right Now
  12:10 PM EST Tue. Apr. 09, 2013
  Virtualization startups are continuing to make noise despite many of them transforming themselves into cloud startups. Here are 10 that still call what they do 'virtualization.'