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4 Reasons Why Staples-Office Depot Deal Could Get The Green Light
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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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.
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.
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.
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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IGEL Gets Serious With New Velocity Partner Program
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.
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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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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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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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Cisco-Acacia Communications Deal Gains Chinese Approval Following New Offer
by Gina Narcisi
After inking a new deal last week, Cisco has won conditional approval from China’s antitrust authority to buy Acacia Communications.
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10 Hot Big Data Companies You Should Watch In 2021
by Rick Whiting
Here’s a roundup of 10 big data technology companies to keep an eye on in 2021—some well-known (looking at you Snowflake), some likely to break out this year, and some just starting to appear on industry watchers’ radar screens.
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Samsung Launches Its Rugged Galaxy Tab Active3 Tablet In U.S.
by Kyle Alspach
‘The continued investment Samsung is doing around this product line is unique in the industry,’ one solution provider executive tells CRN.
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The Hottest Enterprise 5G Trends We Saw At CES 2021
by Gina Narcisi
AT&T’s Anne Chow and Qualcomm’s Alex Holcman talked 5G availability, network slicing, new device capabilities, and business applications at CES 2021.
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