Channel Beat: Oracle's Disappointing Earnings, Microsoft's Executive Exodus
Also in top stories from this week, a look into the Major League Baseball cybersecurity hack.
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Windows 10: A Partner's Guide To The 10 Coolest Features
Digital assistant Cortana, the Spartan browser and virtual desktops are among the new and improved bells and whistles in Microsoft's latest OS.
Cohesity Exits Stealth With $70M Cash, Converged Secondary Storage Solution
Cohesity, founded by a co-founder of hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer Nutanix, wants to converge data protection, analytics and devops data into a single storage platform.
Dave Donatelli Gets New Role At Oracle: Converged Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud
Donatelli, who left HP in March, now is managing Oracle's hardware business, including its engineered systems.
Microsoft No Drag On En Pointe's Surging Sales, Profits
En Pointe experienced stratospheric sales and profit growth before being acquired by PCM, despite fee cutbacks and increased competition in Microsoft's top partner program.
ForeScout Nabs HP Enterprise Network Security VP As CMO
In the latest of a series of big executive additions for ForeScout Technologies, the Campbell, Calif.-based company has added former Hewlett-Packard Vice President Rob Greer as chief marketing officer.
Neumitra: Medical-Grade Connected Technology
Neumitra has developed embeddable biomodules, mobile software and algorithms to offer medical-grade insight into stress and mental health.
6 Distributors In The 2015 Fortune 1000
The six major North American publicly traded technology distributors climbed a combined 43 spots in the 2015 Fortune 1000 rankings as their sales grew by a total of $10.93 billion and profits grew by a cumulative $218.9 million.
Intel Snaps Up Recon Instruments To Muscle Into Wearables Market
Chip manufacturer Intel announced Wednesday it has purchased Recon Instruments, a Canadian smart eyewear company.
Security Clearance: Solution Providers Pinpoint 10 Steps The Government Needs To Take Post-Breach
Take a look at what some of the top public sector solution providers recommend the federal government should do to ramp up its security strategy in wake of the recent megabreach exposing the records of more than 4 million federal workers.
HP Beats Microsoft To The Punch, Unveils Enterprise-Ready Windows 10 Tablet
Despite being the maker of Windows 10, Microsoft is not the first vendor to take the wraps off a Windows 10-based tablet. HP grabs that honor with its new enterprise-ready HP Pro Tablet 608.
Leading With Security Can Be Key To Converting Hesitant Customers To The Cloud
Security as the catalyst and not the impediment to cloud adoption? The perception has changed, security experts say, and solution providers with the right know-how are poised to take advantage.
Follow The Money: 12 Tech Venture Capital Investments In May
Startups developing cloud applications and the platforms that run them lead May's roundup of companies that received VC funding.
DartDrones Can Turn Anyone Into A Drone Pilot
DartDrones is an FAA 333-certified drone training academy that will keep users from crashing drones into trees and lakes.
Salesforce Delivers First App Built On Its Shiny New Wave Analytics Platform
Sales Wave Analytics, conceived from a consumer perspective, is the first in an upcoming portfolio of analytics applications from the CRM leader.
Former Microsoft Dynamics Channel Exec Joins NetSuite
Doug Kennedy is now managing the cloud application vendor's alliances with systems integrators.
Raytheon|Websense Breaks Into Enterprise Market with Syntel Partnership
Syntel is diving headfirst into cybersecurity, inking a partnership with defense giant Raytheon|Websense to bring forensics and analytics tools to large enterprise customers.
Oracle Misses Big In Q4, But Its CEOs Say Cloud Business Is Growing Like Gangbusters
Oracle fell short of Wall Street's profit and revenue forecast, but co-CEOs Safra Catz and Mark Hurd put a happy face on the situation by talking about how fast their cloud business is growing.
Microsoft's Elop, Penn Departing In Latest Executive Leadership Reshuffling
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a management re-organization in which some longtime senior executives will be departing, while others will be getting larger roles within the company.
Google Plays San Francisco's Warfield: 7 Scenes From Cloud Developer Event
The landmark theater played host to Google's Cloud Platform team, who pitched developers on the advantages of building apps using Google's public cloud.
