Rubrik Lands $41M Funding, Looks To Simplify Data Protection
The Rubrik r300 combines a full-featured data protection application with industry-standard hardware to offer a scalable hybrid-cloud backup and recovery solution.
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New 'Powerhouse' Created With Charter Acquisition Of Time Warner Cable And Bright House
Comcast has some serious competition as Charter Communications unveiled plans on Tuesday to buy competitors Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks.
10 Gadget Gifts For Tech-Savvy Grads
New college graduates across the country are preparing to enter the real world, but don't let them leave school without a new gadget gift. Here are CRN's top picks for tech gifts for new graduates.
Distributors Placing Big Bets On Server 2003-Related Assessments, Demand Gen
Avnet, Ingram Micro, Synnex and Tech Data all have dedicated Server 2003 practices focused on educating end users, generating leads for solution provider partners, and offering server assessments and solution designs.
BlackBerry Reveals Layoffs In Effort To Turn Around Struggling Device Business
BlackBerry says it will lay off an unspecified number of employees in its device unit as it consolidates its device software, hardware and application businesses.
Accenture: When On-Premise Beats Cloud
Accenture cloud expert Eric Brown surprised the crowd at a recent CIO symposium when he suggested the cloud is not suitable for all workloads.
NetApp CEO Georgens Sees 'Re-Balancing' Ahead
NetApp Chairman and CEO Tom Georgens told CRN that the vendor will be investing in more training and go-to-market efforts as part of a way to get past a slower-than-expected transition to Clustered Data Ontap.
Follow The Money: 21 Recent Tech VC Investments
Startups developing a broad range of innovative information technology products have recently collected millions in venture financing. Here's a look at 21 that caught our attention.
Report: Microsoft Made $55 Billion Bid To Acquire Salesforce, But It Wasn't Nearly Enough
Salesforce CEO Benioff turned down Microsoft's $55 billion acquisition bid because it was far less than the price tag he had in mind, according to a report from CNBC.
Springpath's New CEO Sets Sights On Building Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Business
Terry Cunningham, Springpath's new CEO, touts a subscription model for bringing its hyper-converged infrastructure software to customers' choice of server hardware.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
For the week ending May 22, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.
CRN Exclusive: HP CEO Whitman On Not Competing With Amazon In Public Cloud And Why HP Is 'Miles Ahead' Of Cisco Intercloud
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman spoke with CRN on a wide range of issues including HP's public cloud commitment, the cloud battle with Cisco Intercloud, the Aruba acquisition, and channel sales performance for HP's second fiscal quarter.
RingCentral's Shmunis On 'Struggling' Vendors, Cloud Demand
RingCentral's Vlad Shmunis talks about how large vendors are failing to successfully adopt Software-as-a-Service offerings, "significant" revenue opportunities for VARs and how RingCentral is beating competitors.Via itbestofbreed.com
10 Unanswered Questions About The CSC Split
As CSC separates its commercial and government businesses, the systems integrator faces uncertainty around leadership and executive retention, cloud and vendor relationships, and the prospect of a merger or acquisition.
5 Companies That Had A Rough Week
For the week ending May 22, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.
Channel Beat: Lenovo Earnings Miss The Mark
In other top stories this week, Salesforce slays Wall Street expectations in its first financial quarter. Also, Riverbed launches a new channel strategy.
Google Vs. Amazon: How Do Their Cloud Compute Prices Stack Up?
RightScale crunches the numbers, finds Google's IaaS significantly cheaper, and predicts AWS will lower prices again this year.
HP Eyes $2 Billion In Cost Cutting In Troubled Enterprise Services Business
HP CEO Meg Whitman said dramatic shifts in the IT outsourcing business is forcing a shift to low-cost resources and more automated data centers.
Barracuda Can Quadruple Sales With Tech Data Deal, Exec Says
Barracuda Networks made a deal with the distributor, broadening partner reach and potentially boosting sales.
Gartner: Global Chromebook Sales Will Jump 27 Percent in 2015
A newly released report Thursday by market research firm Gartner says global Chromebook sales will jump 27 percent in 2015.
