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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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Software News

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 7: Steve Mills

Big Blue pulled the trigger on a blockbuster deal to acquire Ottawa-based Cognos for $5 billion

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 5: Phil Sorgen

The Microsoft Canada president speaks of a new development centre in Canada and some successes seen both inside and outside of the company

The top 25 newsmakers of 2007 – Number 2: Hubert Kelly, Rick Reid, Dave McDonald

While the curtain came down on the long-running NexInnovations drama this year, the final act was far from anti-climatic

Intuit stresses usability in upcoming QuickBooks 2008 release

At an event in Toronto recently, Intuit Canada gave members of the accounting industry a peak under the hood of QuickBooks 2008, the next release of the company’s flagship product.

Helping the channel monetize on SaaS

A new tool from NetSuite enables partners to bundle and resell customized vertical services

One love, one Greg

Greg Spierkel offers more programs for the VentureTech Network

Borland offers Together 2007

New visual modeling software aimed at the developer community

Venture Tech’s past meets its future with VLAN program

WBM’s JoeAnne Hardy takes over for outgoing Don Conaby

Microsoft offers VARs an alternative to UC

Microsoft will rely on partners to deliver its unified communications solution

Virtually there

VMware’s partner chief says virtualization is easy when you look at the competitive landscape

Industry ponders BEA, Oracle product overlaps

Early reaction to Oracle’s proposal to buy BEA Systems has observers acknowledging Oracle would have to deal with product overlap in the application server and middleware spaces.