Juniper partners appear to be on board with the company's decision to merge its channel and commercial sales organizations into one.
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Dell aims to attract more consumer audience while remaining favorable in the channel with new tablet and notebook lineups.
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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.
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BlackBerry's downward spiral has left BlackBerry users on unsteady ground, possibly opening the gates for big enterprises to seek out new solutions.
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Barracuda Networks, the security and storage appliance vendor, this week filed for an IPO, and noted in its filing that its revenue is growing while income is dropping.
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Other Top Stories--
- EMC Engineer Calls Out VMware Sales Rep On Twitter Over Partner Neutrality
Those who feel EMC wields more influence over VMware get more ammunition after recent social media skirmish between EMC exec and VMware sales rep.
- Ballmer Looking To Keep Microsoft Board Seat After Stepping Down As CEO
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is leaving his CEO post after 13 years but is running for re-election to its board of directors next month, in a development that could rankle investors seeking change.
- Violin Memory Post-IPO Fall Caused By Bad Timing, Fast-Maturing Flash Storage Market: VARs
Storage-focused solution providers said that a fast-maturing flash storage business full of startups that leaves little room for companies to get acquired, along with just plain old bad timing, hurt Violin Memory's IPO chances.
- Fixmo Leads Great Migration: 'Make The Leap' From BlackBerry
Fixmo and SteelCloud team up on worldwide enterprise mobility platform for hosters expected to detract tens of thousands from BlackBerry.
- Icahn Finally, Officially Calls It Quits With Dell
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially ended being a Dell shareholder antagonist on Friday.
- IT Quickly Losing Control Of Enterprise Tech Spending, Study Says
The IT department is losing control of enterprise technology spending to the functional business division, an IDC study said.
- Adobe Source Code Leak Could Trigger New Dangers, Say Experts
Hackers can use the source code to hunt for vulnerabilities in widely used Adobe software and create zero-day attacks targeting specific firms or conduct campaigns on a broad scale.
- Channel Beat: Grappling With The Government Shutdown (Video)
This week's recap also looks at investor pressure on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as well as a new alliance between Facebook and Cisco.
- Enterasys Sweetens Partner Discounts, MDFs As Extreme Acquisition Looms
Enterasys said its new partner certifications and discounts are aimed at enabling solution providers to go to market more independently than they have in the past.
- Verizon Terremark Pushes Deeper Into Cloud Territory With New IaaS, Storage Services
Joining the big players in the cloud game such as Amazon and Google, Verizon has launched its new public cloud hosted infrastructure and storage for enterprise users.
- Adobe Addressing Massive Data Breach, Source Code Leak
A data security breach at Adobe results in the exposure of personal information, including encrypted credit card numbers of 2.9 million people, and the potentially damaging source code lead.
- Oracle Leads The Pack As Converged Infrastructure Q2 Sales Surge
Worldwide sales of converged infrastructure solutions, or integrated infrastructure and platform solutions in IDC parlance, rose 50 percent in the second quarter compared to the year before, according to a new IDC study.
- Government Shutdown Delays $10B Department Of Interior Cloud Project
For companies like IBM, Verizon and AT&T, the massive $10 billion contract between the companies and the Department of the Interior remains on hold while the federal government is shut down.
- Twitter Files $1 Billion IPO Despite Shutdown, Reveals Losses
Twitter is set to go public after filing an IPO with the SEC despite the government shutdown, but the filing reveals disappointing losses.
- Autotask CEO: With Consumerization Over, SMBs Stand To Be Fastest IT Growth Area
Autotask CEO Mark Cattini tells CRN why consumerization was the biggest change in IT in the past 10 years, and what IT needs to do to keep up.
- Despite CEA Chief's Excitement, Microsoft Says It's Not Stepping Up Its CES Presence
After scaling back its participation in CES in January, Microsoft is going to have a big presence at CES this year, according to the event's organizer. But, Microsoft says this isn't accurate.
- Gartner: 'BlackBerry Organizations Must Decide On A New Course Of Action'
A bleak BlackBerry future has been deemed too risky, according to Gartner. Clients should seek alternatives to mobile device solutions.
- Juniper WW Channel Chief To Depart As Channel, Commercial Units Merge Into One
Juniper is staging yet another series of shake-ups to its channel organization, including the departure of its WW Channel Chief and the merging of its channel and commercial sales organizations.
- Mark Potter Now New CTO For HP Enterprise Group
Mark Potter, as the new CTO and senior vice president for infrastructure technology strategy for HP's Enterprise Group, will be coordinating HP's server business with HP Labs.
- Palo Alto Networks Partners See Big Sales Gains For 2014
Of the 150 top-tier Palo Alto Americas partners attending the company's fourth annual conference this week, 141 have doubled their sales in the past year and see only good times ahead.
- Government Shutdown? Obamacare? Here Come The Spammers
Spam campaigns use high-profile events to lure victims to sham websites, trying to trick users into giving up their personal information, say experts.
- Samsung Highlights Health-Care, EMR Solutions (Video)
In part three of our series, Samsung shows off some of its new health-care IT solutions at the company's Executive Briefing Center.
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