The 10 Biggest Software Stories Of 2010
CRN.com | Dec 6, 2010 A Wild Ride For The Software Industry It’s been a tumultuous year in the software industry. In other words, business as usual. There have been acquisitions, from Intel’s blockbuster buyout of McAfee to IBM’s acquisition of, well, just about everybody. There were Microsoft’s efforts to extend its Windows hegemony into […]
The 10 Big Stories Of 2010
CRN.com | Dec 7, 2010 The Biggest Of The Big IT vendors continued to keep the channel on its toes in 2010 with surprise moves, hot new technology and new channel strategies (some greeted warmly by partners, others not so much). Here’s a look back at the 10 big stories that kept CRN readers intrigued. […]
Salesforce.com’s new (and free) social networking tool
Fortune Tech | Michal Lev-Ram | Dec 8, 2010 At Dreamforce, cloud-guru Marc Benioff converts Salesforce.com’s most successful product — social collaboration tool Chatter — from paid to free. Marc Benioff wants to make enterprise software more like Facebook—social, viral and mobile. It’s all part of the Salesforce.com CEO’s master plan to extend beyond his […]
EMC To Certify Architects For Cloud, Data Center Expertise
CRN.com | By Joseph F. Kovar | Dec. 6, 2010 EMC on Monday unveiled two new programs to train and certify customers and solution provider partners as virtualization and cloud computing architects. The aim of the program is to help customers and solution providers, even those who do not work directly with EMC products, get […]
Microsoft Talks Desktop Virtualization Strategy
November 15, 2010 By Stuart J. Johnston | Datamation As more PC managers begin, or follow through on, migrating from Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) to Windows 7, they are encountering one of the downsides of staying on an aging platform for too long. It’s no surprise that some custom applications for IE6 […]
EMC Breaks Q3 Revenue Record
Kevin Komiega | Storage Blog & Editor of InfoStor EMC has reported record revenue for the third consecutive quarter as rumors swirl around the company’s potential $2 billion acquisition of Isilon Systems. EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced all-time record Q3 revenue, 58 percent profit growth, record year-to-date operating and free cash flow, and substantial margin […]