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						<title><![CDATA[IBM Layoffs Said To Be Widespread Throughout Company]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rick Whiting</author>
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							<![CDATA[Layoffs began at the company last week and could total as many as 6,000 to 8,000 worldwide.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP Partners: Bradley's Move From PC Boss To New Post A Blow To Channel]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[Todd Bradley, a tireless channel advocate, is leaving his role as the top PPS executive after eight years to take a role as executive vice president of strategic growth initiatives.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[CentriLogic Expands Presence With New Acquisition]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:54:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[With the acquisition of the North Carolina data center operations of Dacentec, CentriLogic gets a long-distance disaster recovery capability it can offer customers of its other data centers.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP's Donatelli: New Pricing Firepower Helping Partners Win Server Deals]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[Speaking with CRN at HP's Discover conference in Las Vegas, Enterprise Group Executive Vice President Dave Donatelli sees many positives for HP in its heated battle with Dell for server market share.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Exclusive: HP's Donatelli On Dell, Cisco And Partner Profitability]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP Enterprise Group Executive Vice President Dave Donatelli sounds off on the server battle with Dell, Cisco's Unified Compute System and HP's push to increase partner profitability.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP Partners: Excited About Moonshot Servers, Not So Much MicroServer Gen8 Servers]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:59:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP's solution provider community is finding the new HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 servers underpowered for most SMB customers, but they love what HP is planning for its Moonshot modular servers.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[10 New Hot Money-Making Plays For HP Partners]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP is unleashing a ton of innovation at its Discover conference, from sleek new All In Ones and an all-flash HP 3Par StoreServe system to a cloud-based printing solution for Salesforce.com and an upcoming Windows XP upgrade campaign.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Lenovo Looks To Replicate PC Channel Success With Servers]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:13:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Rob Wright</author>
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							<![CDATA[Lenovo turned itself into a PC juggernaut, thanks in large part to its channel strategy. Can the company do the same in the server market?]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP Enterprise Group SVP Seidl Set To Step Aside]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[Randy Seidl, who brought a new competitive fire to HP's one-time sleepy enterprise sales culture, is stepping aside in September.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Cisco Steps Up Server War With Payouts For HP Trade-Ins]]></title>
						<link>http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240156202/cisco-steps-up-server-war-with-payouts-for-hp-trade-ins.htm?cid=rss_tax_Data-center</link>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:21:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Jennifer Hagendorf Follett</author>
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							<![CDATA[In its latest effort to grab share in the server market, Cisco launches a new trade-in program that offers financial incentives to swap out HP BladeSystems and replace them with Cisco gear.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell To Icahn: You're $3.9B Short]]></title>
						<link>http://www.crn.com/news/data-center/240156143/dell-to-icahn-youre-3-9b-short.htm?cid=rss_tax_Data-center</link>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:02:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[In addition to the $3.9 billion shortfall, the special committee argues that the Icahn-backed leveraged recapitalization could cause Dell's perception to fall with employees, vendors and customers.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell Intros PowerEdge VRTX: Converged Infrastructure For SMB, Remote Office]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:11:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Dell's new PowerEdge VRTX, introduced at the Dell Enterprise Forum, is a converged infrastructure offering with a starting price of under $10,000 that targets SMBs and remote offices.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[New Dell-Oracle Alliance To Bring Engineered Systems To Dell Customers, Partners]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:04:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Oracle President Mark Hurd slapped his old company, Hewlett-Packard, in the face by unveiling at the Dell Enterprise Forum a new engineered systems relationship with HP arch-rival Dell to integrate Oracle software with Dell server hardware.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[5 Questions For HP Enterprise Channels VP Stephen DiFranco]]></title>
						<link>http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/240155894/5-questions-for-hp-enterprise-channels-vp-stephen-difranco.htm?cid=rss_tax_Data-center</link>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP Enterprise Group Channels Vice President Stephen DiFranco says Dell paid dearly for its first-quarter server market share gains.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Cisco Partner Summit Features Revved Up VCE Effort]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[VCE Channel Chief D. Martin says the company's partner sales growth momentum is increasing even after posting a 40-percent-plus channel sales increase in 2012.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Avnet Intros Mobile VSPEX Solution For DR, Harsh Environment Deployments]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[The Avnet Mobile Data Center Solution for EMC VSPEX solution targets fast deployments after a disaster or in harsh environments, and includes a complete data center based on the EMC VSPEX reference architecture built into a case that moves on its own power.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell Asks Shareholders To Support Silver Lake Deal]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 12:20:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[A special meeting of Dell stockholders is scheduled for July 18, when the vote to approve the $24.4 billion deal will occur.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Q1 Server Business Plummets: Key Findings From IDC]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 17:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Worldwide server sales dropped a sharp 7.7 percent in the first quarter of 2013, the fifth fall in sales in six quarters, with sales of nearly every type of x86, Unix, and mainframe server down.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP Appoints Channel Veteran To Step Up Full Enterprise Portfolio Push]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 15:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[Look out Dell, Cisco and EMC. HP has created a new position in its enterprise group aimed at getting more partners to sell the full HP product portfolio.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell, Cisco Pummel Competition In 1Q Server Market: Gartner]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 19:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Dell's strong server sales and shipment growth, combined with a big drop in HP's server sales and shipments, brought Dell to within striking distance of HP's No. 1 spot in the x86 server business, but Cisco and the self-build and ODM server vendors saw the biggest growth.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Gartner Q1 Server Vendors: Winners And Losers]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 16:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[The server market is under intense pressure, with vendors battling for share in a segment that saw overall sales down 5 percent in the first quarter. Here is a look at who's winning and who's losing according to Gartner's just-released data.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Converged Infrastructure Bets Are In: Where Are They Paying Off?]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Converged infrastructure spending is skyrocketing, and vendors are innovating like crazy. How do you unlock the door to the next big thing?]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP CEO Whitman Pledges Stepped Up Server Battle With Dell]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 21:37:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP CEO Meg Whitman says there is no excuse for HP's poor industry-standard server sales performance.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[HP Shares On Rise After Better-Than-Expected Q2 Earnings]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 17:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Steven Burke</author>
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							<![CDATA[HP beat analysts earnings expectations for its second fiscal quarter despite year-over-year revenue declines across many of its businesses.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell Special Committee To Icahn: Where's The Info We Need]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[Without the requested information, particularly how the group plans to finance the acquisition, Dell can't consider the proposal, the special committee wrote.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Cisco Reports Strong 3Q, Says SDN To Have Positive Future Impact On Company]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:28:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Cisco is enjoying revenue and profit growth based primarily on solution and architecture sales such as those revolving around its Cisco UCS server business and said it expects a positive impact from the growing movement toward software-defined networking (SDN).]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell Dozen: Who Are The Icahn/Southeastern Dell Board Nominees?]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[Icahn Enterprises and Southeastern Asset Management nominate 12 people to sit on Dell's board of directors, should their alternative offer to the Silver Lake buyout deal be accepted by the current board. So who are the Dell dozen?]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell Tool Lets Partners Configure Enterprise-Class Solutions]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 12:18:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[The new Online Solutions Configurator is aimed at giving  partners a leg up in constructing Dell servers, storage, networking and other converged infrastructure offerings.]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Software-Defined Data Centers: Should You Jump On The Bandwagon?]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:10:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Joseph F. Kovar</author>
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							<![CDATA[Some say the software-defined data center is already here. Others say it -- and the move to software-define everything -- is all hype. Where should you steer your business?]]>
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						<title><![CDATA[Dell's Special Committee: Icahn, Southeastern Need To Provide More Details]]></title>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:42:00 -0400</pubDate>
						<author>Scott Campbell</author>
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							<![CDATA[In its reply, Dell's special committee says its requires a draft of a proposed definitive agreement and comprehensive information regarding the  financing for the transaction.]]>
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