About
Kyle Alspach is the senior technical editor at CRN, covering mobile devices and PCs along with product reviews for the CRN Test Center. He was previously the national tech editor at American Inno/Streetwise Media, and before that worked for the Boston Globe and Boston Business Journal. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Dell’s VMware Spin-off: 5 Big Things To Know
by Kyle Alspach
The move to create two standalone companies will preserve the close partnership between Dell and VMware around technology development, sales and marketing, according to Dell Technologies.
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Dell Unveils Plan For VMware Spin-off To ‘Unlock Significant Value’
by Kyle Alspach
The spin-off of Dell’s 81-percent stake in VMware will form two standalone companies, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021.
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10 Key Devices That Go Wherever The Workforce May Be
by Kyle Alspach
For mobile and remote workers, these laptops, tablets and accessories are ideal for a variety of situations.
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HP Just Ahead Of Dell In U.S. PC Market As Q1 Shipments Surge
by Kyle Alspach
PC shipments jumped 24 percent in the U.S. and 32 percent globally during the first quarter of the year, Gartner reported.
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5 Things To Know About Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4
by Kyle Alspach
The notebook will include a choice between AMD or Intel processors for the first time, along with two different display sizes.
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Google Drive, Docs Hit With Partial Outage
by Kyle Alspach
Some users saw issues such as high latency and error messages during the partial outage, which lasted about three hours, Google reported.
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Microsoft Jumps ‘Light Years’ In Health Care AI With Nuance Acquisition: Partners
by Kyle Alspach
The planned $19.7 billion acquisition of Nuance is a huge artificial intelligence and voice recognition win for Microsoft, and should create major services opportunities with health care customers in the channel, solution providers told CRN.
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Apple Delays MacBooks, iPads Amid Component Shortages: Report
by Kyle Alspach
Production on the Apple products is reportedly being postponed as the industry faces a shortfall in chips and displays.
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Samsung Aims To Deepen Channel ‘Commitment’ With Ascend Portal Upgrades
by Kyle Alspach
The Ascend partner portal has received enhancements around user personalization and marketing content as the push to win more business customers continues at the device maker.
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4 Things To Know About Samsung’s New Galaxy A Phones
by Kyle Alspach
Samsung is launching a new series of midrange Galaxy A devices with a greater number of business-friendly features.
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Stratix Finding ‘Huge Growth’ With Samsung Devices Amid B2B Push
by Kyle Alspach
The mobility solution provider has been seeing increased interest from customers in Samsung phones, tablets and laptops for work usage, Gina Daniel-Lee, Stratix’s vice president of strategic alliances and partnerships, tells CRN.
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Veeam’s Kevin Rooney Wins 2020 Channel Madness Championship
by Joseph F. Kovar
Veeam’s Kevin Rooney outlasted a field of 32 of the industry's top channel executives to win the 2020 CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs.
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Microsoft Apologizes For Another Azure, Teams Outage
by Kyle Alspach
The company blamed the outage on DNS issues that prevented access to a number of cloud services, and it was the second major Microsoft outage in three weeks.
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Microsoft HoloLens Gets ‘Big Win’ From $21.9 Billion Army Contract
by Kyle Alspach
The mixed-reality advancements by Microsoft are ‘a sign that investments from the partner community [on HoloLens] won’t be wasted,’ one solution provider executive says.
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