The Week Ending April 29

Topping this week's roundup of companies that had a rough week is Apple's first quarterly sales decline in 13 years.

Also making the list were Symantec for the departure of its CEO and reduced fourth-quarter revenue forecast, Arista Networks for reports that it is cutting back its channel efforts, VMware for the loss of its top cloud computing executive, and Cisco for reports that the rollout of its HyperFlex systems may not be going smoothly.

Not everyone in the IT industry was having a rough go of it this week. For a rundown of companies that made smart decisions, executed savvy strategic moves -- or just had good luck -- check out this week's 5 Companies That Came To Win roundup.