Accenture/Avanade, Bulletproof, winners at Microsoft’s global Partner of the Year Awards

Plus, a peak inside an ITIL extravaganza and seven questions on unified communications

Big blue offered laid-off workers a chance to move to overseas regional divisions

Dell says it treats employees fairly in response to allegations that it segregated and terminated women and older workers

Plus, the SaaS market and a reaction to the rumoured Sun Microsystems acquisition by IBM

Greg Davis said inking Ingram Micro and Tech Data further proves that Dell is committed to the channel

Latest round of cuts target IBM’s global business-services unit, say reports

Changes build on the separation of developed and emerging markets

While Apple isn’t named in the suit, components in the iPhone are