HP CEO Meg Whitman says additional job cutbacks are vital in order for HP to be easier to do business with in a market that is moving at warp speed.

Wells Fargo argues that EMC should bring VMware in-house, using VMware's management and orchestration software to go with its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance for converged infrastructure.

HP CEO Meg Whitman says the company's turn-around is on track despite disclosing plans to layoff thousands more employees after it missed Wall Street analysts' revenue expectations for the second fiscal quarter. Non-GAAP earnings were flat year-over-year.

Online marketplace eBay said it is taking measures following a breach impacting its 145 million users, including user passwords and other account information. The breach is prompting firms to review their security measures.

EMC World was a chance for solution providers and partners to see the latest in storage and virtualization solutions from EMC, its friends, and even rival HP.

Sophos CEO Kris Hagerman dismisses rival WatchGuard and said Symantec is in "disarray" following management changes and the firing of its CEO.

HP has dropped a $100 Android tablet in the U.S. market featuring a quad-core processor, however, partners are skeptical of the HP 7 Plus, citing the "black eye" the company gave itself in its past attempt as a tablet vendor.

CRN's annual Big Data 100 highlights the companies that are providing innovative ways to deal with the exploding volumes of data that businesses face today.

Avnet launched Avnet Government Solutions at CRN's Xchange Public Sector conference in Washington, D.C. The new business venture will focus on bringing cloud computing, the internet of things, and other new technologies into the public sector.

Sales through indirect channels, and a fast-growing flash storage business, helped mitigate a continuing drop in OEM storage sales for NetApp.

The CRN Big Data 100 list includes big data emerging vendors including developers of vendors of big data management software and business analytics software.

Xangati is expanding its channel program under Fred Pazos.

Cisco's John Chambers and Rob Lloyd spoke with reporters at the Cisco Live event this week about Rackspace acquisition rumors, the NSA and more.

Cisco Systems extended its Advanced Malware Protection capabilities acquried from Sourcefire, integrating the technology into its various product lines and unveiling new network appliances with file analysis, and threat detection and protection capability.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and EVP Stepen Elop made the call not to unveil Surface Mini at the Surface 3 event earlier this week, according to a report.

Cisco's Chambers denies rumors of interest in Rackspace acquisition.

Intel is looking for quick, easy deployments of any workload into OpenStack private clouds with its Intel DCM: SAA software.

eBay is urging its 145 million account holders to reset their user passwords following a data breach that exposed encrypted passwords and user account information.

Microsoft is planning to let partners sell Azure cloud services under its Open Licensing program. This could make Azure services and Microsoft products and services more appealing.

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