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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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Oracle hypes Hyperion acquisition

Company vows to create a more comprehensive business intelligence suite, but competitors shrug. However, an industry analyst thinks one of them may be swallowed

Battle coming over mid-market CRM

With Microsoft’s CRM Live about to debut, the struggle over on-premise versus on-demand is heating up

Microsoft gets vertical

New ISV solution certification program announced at Microsoft Dynamics event deepens company’s push to specialization

Carol and company

Microsoft Canada’s top channel executive is pushing partner competencies as a way to increase profitability, even in a SaaS model

HP unveils latest IT/CE crossover product

HP has redesigned the old black or beige coloured storage sub-system. The computing giant also slimmed the tower model down by more than half, chopped the price dramatically and boosted the capacity to reach 1.2 terabytes.

Exploring the oil & gas sector

Using technologies such as sofware as a service, solution providers are finding markets in the oil patch to solve problems ranging from an aging workforce to consolidation of data

Next stop: Canada

They may only have CDW Canada as a channel partner here, but that isn’t stopping Chicago-based SpringCM from launching its on-demand electronic content management solution with SOA capabilities.

Google searches for partners

Vancouver company among those ready to sell custom services for Google’s new subscription office applications

Circuit City to shut down 62 stores in Canada

Circuit City Stores Inc. of Richmond, Va., announced it would close 62 of its wholly-owned stores in Canada because they were under performing.

EMC fleshes out UltraScale line

EMC Corp. has filled out its Clarrion CX3 UltraScale line with a low-end model that includes both iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity.

Corel hopes free leads to sales

Corel hopes the free basic version WordPerfect Office it released last month will spur demand for the more sophisticated enterprise version sold by partners.