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Commvault acquires SDS startup for $225 million

Data management firm Commvault made a bold acquisition this week.

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Commvault acquires SDS startup for $225 million

Data management firm Commvault made a bold acquisition this week.

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VMware goes on a shopping spree, scoops up Carbon Black and Pivotal for a combined $4.8B

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Microsoft to drop Skype for Business Online and replace with Teams in 2021

Two years after hinting at plans to phase out Skype for Business Online and replace it with…

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Microsoft Hungary slapped with $8.7M fine

A Microsoft Corp. subsidiary based in Hungary has agreed to pay an $8.7 million fine to resolve the government’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) that date back to 2013.

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IBM and Red Hat partners can sleep soundly, executives say after mega deal closes

As IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat Tuesday, questions continued to swirl around the impact the move will have on partners and clients, which even IBM’s Arvind Krishna acknowledged was the “real challenge” ever since the deal was announced last October.

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Microsoft Dynamics partners ponder their future in an Azure ERP world

Partners are expecting to hear more about Microsoft’s plans for ERP on Azure during the Convergence conference

Chrome succumbs to Pwn2Own contest hack

Plus, Google’s ‘Pwnium’ snares a Chrome sandbox-escape exploit with $60K bait

Mona Lisa smiles at new asset management system

The world’s most famous museum has completed a major IT project with an IBM business partner to streamline its maintenance tasks and keep closer tabs on its expensive art collection

Windows Server 8 to be storage-focused OS

It will offer RDMA over Ethernet and InfiniBand, should cut Patch Tuesday downtime, execs say

Autonomy and HP’s 10.3 billion reasons to like big data

The vendor sees big revenue opportunities for partners around cloud computing, but when it comes to Autonomy, some partners wonder if it’s channel-ready

Channel will bring SAP’s big data appliances to SMBs

A special Edge edition of HANA and HANA-powered analytics for SAP’s Business One will be available exclusively through the channel

EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

The server-based flash cache will come in bigger cards, SSDs and less expensive media later this year, the company says

Microsoft Office 15 begins technical preview: Tablet readiness questioned

As MS readies its Office 15 suite (expected late 2012 or 2013) many wonder if the launch timeline hints to the arrival of Win 8 tablets

HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds

HP’s Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced package now can find your IT assets in the cloud

Mozilla okays Firefox 10 launch this week

Adds another part of silent updating: Makes most add-ons work with each new edition

SAP’s HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year

The move could accelerate SAP’s plans to migrate its applications customers away from Oracle’s database

IBM/Lotus unveils next-gen Connections

Lotusphere 2012 opens with the debut of IBM Connections for business intelligence

University accuses Oracle of extortion, lies, ‘rigged’ demo in lawsuit

Montclair State has elaborated on its case against Oracle over an ERP project gone wrong

Citrix’s new channel chief ups investment in SMB market

The virtualization vendor has a new focus on the SMB and is looking for new partners to tackle the opportunity

A “big data” solution needs Canadian partners

A protection and availability storage platform vendor has entered Canada and has plans for growth

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