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						<title><![CDATA[EMC Engineer Calls Out VMware Sales Rep On Twitter Over Partner Neutrality]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:43:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kevin McLaughlin</author>
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							<![CDATA[Those who feel EMC wields more influence over VMware get more ammunition after recent social media skirmish between EMC exec and VMware sales rep.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Ballmer Looking To Keep Microsoft Board Seat After Stepping Down As CEO]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:32:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kevin McLaughlin</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Violin Memory Post-IPO Fall Caused By Bad Timing, Fast-Maturing Flash Storage Market: VARs]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 19:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Fixmo Leads Great Migration: 'Make The Leap' From BlackBerry]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:52:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Lisa Barry</author>
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							<![CDATA[Fixmo and SteelCloud team up on worldwide enterprise mobility platform for hosters expected to detract tens of thousands from BlackBerry.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Icahn Finally, Officially Calls It Quits With Dell]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Tom Spring</author>
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							<![CDATA[Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially ended being a Dell shareholder antagonist on Friday.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[IT Quickly Losing Control Of Enterprise Tech Spending, Study Says]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:54:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[The IT department is losing control of enterprise technology spending to the functional business division, an IDC study said.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Adobe Source Code Leak Could Trigger New Dangers, Say Experts]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Robert Westervelt</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Channel Beat: Grappling With The Government Shutdown (Video)]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 16:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rob Wright</author>
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							<![CDATA[This week's recap also looks at investor pressure on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as well as a new alliance between Facebook and Cisco.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Enterasys Sweetens Partner Discounts, MDFs As Extreme Acquisition Looms]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kristin Bent</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Verizon Terremark Pushes Deeper Into Cloud Territory With New IaaS, Storage Services]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kathy Kim</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Adobe Addressing Massive Data Breach, Source Code Leak]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:42:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Robert Westervelt</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Oracle Leads The Pack As Converged Infrastructure Q2 Sales Surge]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Government Shutdown Delays $10B Department Of Interior Cloud Project]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kathy Kim</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Ditching BlackBerry Could Open Channel Floodgates]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Lisa Barry</author>
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							<![CDATA[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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						<title><![CDATA[Twitter Files $1 Billion IPO Despite Shutdown, Reveals Losses]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[Twitter is set to go public after filing an IPO with the SEC despite the government shutdown, but the filing reveals disappointing losses.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Autotask CEO: With Consumerization Over, SMBs Stand To Be Fastest IT Growth Area]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:58:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Sarah Kuranda</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Partners Give Thumbs-Up To Juniper's Channel, Commercial Sales Unit Merger]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kristin Bent</author>
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							<![CDATA[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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						<title><![CDATA[Despite CEA Chief's Excitement, Microsoft Says It's Not Stepping Up Its CES Presence]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kevin McLaughlin</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Barracuda Files $100M IPO To Gain Financial Stability, Market Visibility]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:48:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[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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						<title><![CDATA[Gartner: 'BlackBerry Organizations Must Decide On A New Course Of Action']]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Lisa Barry</author>
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							<![CDATA[A bleak BlackBerry future has been deemed too risky, according to Gartner. Clients should seek alternatives to mobile device solutions.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Juniper WW Channel Chief To Depart As Channel, Commercial Units Merge Into One]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kristin Bent</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Mark Potter Now New CTO For HP Enterprise Group]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:51:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Palo Alto Networks Partners See Big Sales Gains For 2014]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:31:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[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.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Government Shutdown? Obamacare? Here Come The Spammers]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Robert Westervelt</author>
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							<![CDATA[Spam campaigns use high-profile events to lure victims to sham websites, trying to trick users into giving up their personal information, say experts.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Samsung Highlights Health-Care, EMR Solutions (Video)]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rob Wright</author>
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							<![CDATA[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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						<title><![CDATA[Accuvant Solutions Architect Talks Up McAfee's Free Threat Analysis Tools]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:38:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Robert Westervelt</author>
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							<![CDATA[McAfee's appliances can help bolster an intrusion prevention system and aid threat analysts in detecting and investigating suspicious activity on the network, says a security solution provider architect.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Pivotal Makes First Big Move, Acquiring Mobile App Dev Firm Xtreme Labs]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Kevin McLaughlin</author>
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							<![CDATA[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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