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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 hopes for hat-trick with three releases

New editions of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 underline the vendor’s

New Apple offerings may drive channel opportunity

While the MacBook Air may be thin, observers say the Mac channel play is anything but

Fort Erie goes open source

Microsoft presented town with little options but to look elsewhere

Making the sale in a challenging economy

Analysts share strategies for getting businesses to open their wallets for IT at a time when they’re being asked to tighten their belts

Bringing the print shop in house

Affordability is playing a key role in the growth of the multi-function printer market – and its attracting a new breed of customers that the channel already has contacts with

System fine tuning for the IT novice

Symantec’s Norton SystemWorks Standard Edition simplifies system maintenance – once you get it installed

Blink Logic no longer a Cognos partner

The BI solution provider doesn’t know why it has been dumped, and Cognos isn’t saying

Inside Apple’s iWork

The new edition gives Microsoft Office a run for its money on the Mac desktop

Pre-packaged security for the channel

U.S.-based distributor creates channel friendly security solutions with potentially high margins

Oracle unveils AIA for its partners

OpenWorld conference also showcased many other channel initiatives for Oracle partners and system integrators

Big blue acquires Cognos

The Cognos product brand will continue to exist

Corel brings more powerful photo editing tools to the masses

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 makes the tools of higher-end photo editing suites available at a lower price point

ARC banking solution takes home the gold

Edmonton, Alta.-based ARC Business Solutions Inc. is the gold recipient of this year’s best enterprise solution for its work with BMO InvestorLine.

New factors give Green IT a red light

Nearly half of all Canadian data centres have gone green, but the rest are far behind

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 13: Colleen Moorehead

Colleen Moorehead, the CEO of Nexient Learning, took partnering, not to mention mergers and acquisitions to a new level this year.

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