Channel Insider Staff

Microsoft’s quarterly revenues of $16.04 billion exceeded many industry analysts’ expectations, and suggested that the economy –at least the portion of it that purchases software—is indeed slowly reviving from the deepest global recession in a generation. However, a deeper analysis of those results also reveals a peculiar dichotomy: despite Microsoft’s “all in” approach to cloud […]

BOSTON, July 22 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) is giving customers replacement parts for servers that were infected with a computer virus designed to steal private data. The company said it was not aware of any attacks as a result of the rare incident, and that it was replacing the tainted parts as quickly as […]

July 22 (Reuters) – Isilon Systems Inc (NASDAQ:ISLN) posted a quarterly profit that was double Wall Street expectations and raised its full-year revenue growth view, sending shares of the data storage firm to a three-year high. For the second quarter, the company posted net income of $2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with […]

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) – ARM (ARM) announced a new licensing agreement with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), lifting shares in the British chip designer on Friday. The agreement deepens ARM’s 13-year relationship with Microsoft, giving the U.S. group access to ARM architecture instead of licensing products one by one. Microsoft, whose Windows software runs nine in 10 […]

LONDON July 22 (Reuters) – Shipments of smartphones leapt 43 percent in the second quarter, with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) losing some share ahead of the launch of the new iPhone 4, communications research firm Strategy Analytics said. Sixty million smartphones — phones with more computer-like capabilities like surfing the Web — were sold in the quarter […]

BOSTON, July 21 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC) said it sees "bumps in the road" in the global economic recovery and gave an earnings forecast that disappointed some investors, sending its shares down over 3 percent. Executives at the world’s biggest maker of corporate data storage equipment said on Wednesday that the U.S. federal government […]

NEW YORK, July 19 (Reuters) – IBM (NYSE:IBM) disappointed investors by reporting a decline in new technology services contracts in the second quarter, while a weaker euro hit revenue more than expected, sending its shares down more than 4 percent. While firm growth in the company’s higher-margin software unit and sales in emerging markets bolstered […]

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20 (Reuters) – Google Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE:NEE) for the next 20 years to power data centers. The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet search company invested $38.8 million in two wind […]

Dell has expanded its storage technology portfolio to include more compression and deduplication with the acquisition of Ocarina Networks. Dell’s move to up its game in this area comes as  companies focus on getting more out of their storage, driven by the exponential growth of data retention requirements. Most big technology vendors have a foot […]

HP has appointed a new executive to head up the tech giant’s relationships with ISVs, system integrators, managed services providers, business advisory firms, network service providers and channel partners, the company has announced. Mark Angelino will serve as senior vice president of Global Distribution for HP Enterprise Business, a separate group from the channel organization. […]

More than half of large U.S. businesses that reduced their workforces in the last year plan to rebuild to pre-recession levels within two years according to a new study from consulting firm Accenture. The Accenture High Performance Workforce Study found that 54 percent of large companies plan to rebuild while only 13 percent plan to […]

Avnet Technology Solutions is expanding its vertical market practices for the data center and has hired a new leader to head up the effort. Avnet says Michael Houghton, vice president of Vertical Market Solutions for Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, will lead the strategic direction and growth of Avnet’s new vertical market segments in banking, energy/utilities […]