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Intel President Renee James and several other executives will step down or retire soon as part of a huge reorganization as the company shifts its focus away from PCs.

Skype for Business, part of the Office 365 suite, is now capable of large broadcasts and working seamlessly with traditional telephones.

Windows 10 is close to being released to PC makers, and now Microsoft is offering a clearer picture of how and when its enterprise customers will be able to get the new OS.

While Hewlett-Packard is widely believed to have talked with EMC about acquiring the storage vendor last year, the chances of such a deal happening this year are much higher, according to a couple of the IT industry's top financial analysts.

A former VMware executive filed a civil lawsuit in 2010 against VMware and reseller partner Carahsoft for allegedly overcharging the federal government from 2007 to 2013. That lawsuit was unsealed this week, and here are 12 shocking allegations.

In other top stories from this week, Tami Duncan left her post at IBM. Also, VMware and Carahsoft settle a civil suit with the U.S. government.

Zones could be the latest solution provider to get out of the licensing game as Microsoft tightens the requirements around its top partner program.

After launching an unsuccessful program in 2013, network visibility and security auditing vendor Netwrix is relaunching its partner program in a move it says will drive much more opportunity for its partners.

Solution providers are putting on the full-court press to upgrade customers over the next several weeks, as the July 14 end-of-life deadline draws near.

Twenty-year IBM veteran Tami Duncan has been replaced by Michele Stern, who has been with the company for 34 years and most recently was vice president of global business partner sales.

IBM Power Systems Vice President and General Manager Douglas Balog details IBM's transformation around open source.

The newest version of Symantec's flagship data protection suite, NetBackup, is slated to be released next week with enhanced simplification and scaling capabilities, a source close to the company told CRN.

The war of words between Nutanix and VMware continued Tuesday when Lukas Lundell, global director of solutions and performance engineering at Nutanix, outlined several reasons why VMware sees the startup as a serious threat.

Partners say a new channel program, backed up with a channel-positive model for the AppSense direct sales team is poised to drive explosive sales growth.

CRN gets a sneak peek at OneNeck's Colorado data center, a new $20 million, 35,000-square-foot facility with 11.5 million pounds of concrete that allows OneNeck to extend cloud and outsourced IT services to new customers.

BeON COO demonstrates how this IoT system is more than smart lighting.

Retailers need to upgrade their payment terminals to accept new chip cards or be liable for fraudulent charges. For point-of-sale solution providers, that means the door's wide open.

The beefed-up product line aims to enable partners to launch cloud practices with Microsoft Office 365.

Datapipe, a Jersey City, N.J.-based MSP and one of Amazon Web Services' largest Premier partners is placing its bets on AWS, Azure and VCloud. The company says that the industry begs for a hybrid model featuring a mix of what it sees as the top cloud platforms in the industry.