7 Biggest Stories of the Week: April 6-10
April 10, 2015
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Well, hello weekend, you gorgeous thing, you. Why yes, I would love to spend a few days together. But first let's take a look at The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories of the week ending April 10, shall we?
The VAR Guy published its inaugural list of the Top 50 Channel Influencers, honoring the channel's most influential people as nominated by our readers.
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The Linux Foundation is moving to place open source at the fore of web security by taking the Internet Security Research Group under its wing, along with Let's Encrypt, the group's open certificate authority platform. Akamai, Cisco Systems (CSCO), Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla and other organizations are joining in the effort.
Read the story here.
Red Hat (RHT) and Dell announced the launch of the companies’ latest edition of the Dell Red Hat Cloud Solution, an enterprise-grade private-cloud solution based on OpenStack.
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Ingram Micro (IM) is expanding its professional services offerings with the launch of the Ingram Micro Preferred App Development Network, a program aimed at helping North American partners develop their own custom applications.
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We’ve been hearing about it for a few years now: The traditional tiered channel partner program is a dinosaur close to extinction. Now, it seems vendors need to start writing their obituaries. That's the message from Tiffani Bova, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, who offered her vision of the channel in 2020 at the Channel Visionaries conference this week in Newport Beach, California.
Read the story here.
IBM (IBM) last week pledged some $3 billion over four years to set up an Internet of Things (IoT) business unit. In short order, the vendor already has begun to address both the service and ecosystem initiatives with a new collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI) and a set of industry-specific services and solutions.
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The PC industry performed better than expected in Q1 2015, with worldwide shipments of desktops and laptops totaling some 68.5 million units, sliding 6.7 percent from the 73.4 million units shipped at the same time last year but exceeding previous projections, according to researcher IDC’s preliminary figures for the period.
Read the story here.
The PC industry performed better than expected in Q1 2015, with worldwide shipments of desktops and laptops totaling some 68.5 million units, sliding 6.7 percent from the 73.4 million units shipped at the same time last year but exceeding previous projections, according to researcher IDC’s preliminary figures for the period.
Read the story here.
Well, hello weekend, you gorgeous thing you. Why yes, I would love to spend a few days with you. But first let's take a look at The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories of the week ending April 10, shall we?
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