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8 Ultra-Portable Business Laptops From CES 2021
by Kyle Alspach
We’ve pulled together a list of the best thin and lightweight business laptops launched at CES 2021 by PC makers including Lenovo, Dell and HP.
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by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The partnership will be focused on developing the compute side of OpenDrives. That’s a big focus of our new funding,’ says Sean Lee, OpenDrives’ chief strategy and product officer.
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘IGEL had a good partner program, but it needed a revamp. For instance, having different rebates on the front end and the back end doesn’t just help sales reps. Instead, it shows us that IGEL is a profitable product line. That’s important for business owners in the channel, especially as customers’ budgets get tight,’ says Paul Kunze, vice president of sales at IntraSystems.
by Dylan Martin
CRN looked through hundreds of exhibitors to find some of the most innovative smart home technologies on display at the virtual CES 2021, and they included smart pillows, smart baby cribs, smart air-quality clocks and home energy assistants.
by Joseph F. Kovar
Rather than rejecting Staples’ offer to acquire Office Depot for $2.1 billion, Office Depot’s Jan. 19 response seems to open the door for the company to divest its CompuCom business, sell its retail and e-commerce business to Staples, and possibly become a stand-alone B2B business.
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OpsRamp Offers Expanded Network, UC Monitoring For A Work-From-Home World
by Rick Whiting
The new functionality in the OpsRamp platform offer solution providers a way to help customers manage hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments and meet the needs of work-from-home employees.
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Lenovo’s Matthew Zielinski On X1 Fold Momentum And Nearing No. 2 In North America
by Kyle Alspach
Sales of the first foldable PC, the ThinkPad X1 Fold, have ‘far exceeded’ the company’s initial targets, said Zielinski, president of Lenovo North America’s Intelligent Devices Group.
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Microsoft Is Leasing The Most Data Center Capacity In US
by Mark Haranas
Data center leasing capacity in the U.S. tripled in 2020 with Microsoft, Facebook and Bytedance (TikTok) leasing the most from multi-tenant data center operators.
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SolarWinds Hackers Access Malwarebytes’ Office 365 Emails
by Michael Novinson
‘Attackers leveraged a dormant email production product within our Office 365 tenant that allowed access to a limited subset of internal company emails,’ Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski wrote in a blog post.
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VMware Adds AI Technologist, Venture Capitalist To Its Board
by Mark Haranas
‘Ken is an experienced technologist and corporate director with deep roots in software, mobile and AI technologies,’ says VMware board member Paul Sagan.
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: December 2020
by Dylan Martin
The IT industry ended 2020 with major CEO shakeups at Nutanix, SolarWinds and 8x8 as well as significant personnel changes at companies like Capgemini, Accenture, Xerox, IBM, Arrow Electronics and Cisco Systems.
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Google Cloud Hires Amway Exec As VP Of Consumer Packaged Goods
by Donna Goodison
‘I’m thrilled to join Google Cloud during this transformational period for the broader CPG industry,’ Giusy Buonfantino said in a statement. ‘Now more than ever, it is crucial for organizations to innovate and modernize their businesses to remain resilient.’
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HP Names Former Xerox Exec Tolga Kurtoglu As New CTO
by Kyle Alspach
The company also appointed a new chief strategy officer from Bain & Company, and announced the departure of Kim Rivera, HP’s president of strategy and business management.
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5 Things To Know About Citrix’s Acquisition Of Wrike
by Rick Whiting
Citrix Systems is paying $2.25 billion to buy work management application vendor Wrike.
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Dell, HPE Lead Public Cloud Infrastructure Spending Binge
by Mark Haranas
Public cloud spending on servers, storage and networking products from the likes of Dell and HPE reaches $13.3 billion in third quarter 2020.
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Pat Gelsinger And 3 VMware Execs Who Recently Jumped Ship
by Mark Haranas
Here are the four biggest VMware executives, including CEO Pat Gelsinger, who have recently left the virtualization and software superstar.
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Office Depot Open To Retail Business-only Acquisition By Staples, Is Selling CompuCom
by Joseph F. Kovar
Office Depot, in an open letter, says it acknowledges Staples’ primary interest in acquiring its retail and ecommerce business, and said that it has already initiated the process to sell its CompuCom business as part of a strategic review of the business.
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