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Dell, EMC Kill Storage Reseller Partnership Two Years Early
Something that has been talked about openly in storage circles for more than two years has come to pass: Dell and EMC are parting ways in selling storage hardware, and they are ending their agreement two years early. Now Dell and EMC are officially competitors. Following a complicated 10-year partnership that was to run until…
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MSP Acquisitions: Advice for a Red Hot Market
How hot is the managed services mergers and acquisitions market? So hot that remote management and monitoring platform provider N-able offered three different panel discussions on the topic during its annual partner summit in Scottsdale, Ariz. last week "M&A has never been hotter than right now," N-able Vice President of Sales Michael Cullen told Channel…
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IBM Announces New SmartCloud Services, Java PaaS
IBM announced a host of new cloud offerings as part of its IBM SmartCloud initiative, including a new Java platform as a service. Big Blue announced new cloud services and software to provide choice, security and portability for enterprises as they shift workloads to the cloud and use it as a platform for business. IBM…
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Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Skype
Microsoft has formally completed its $8.5 billion Skype acquisition, making the communications company a division within its already-sprawling corporate structure. “This represents a huge leap forward in Skype’s mission to be the communication choice for a billion people every day,” Tony Bates, formerly Skype s CEO and now president of Microsoft’s Skype unit, wrote in…