7 Biggest Stories of the Week, Feb. 2-6
Welcome to the weekend! Before we can kick off the festivities, let's take a look at the top 7 stories on The VAR Guy for the week ending Feb. 6.
February 6, 2015
Welcome to the weekend! Before we can kick off the festivities, let’s take a look at the top 7 stories on The VAR Guy for the week ending Feb. 6.
IBM documents show CEO Ginni Rometty has realized nearly $6 million in incentives and stock sales since last August, including a $3.6 million bonus for her performance in 2014—this amid massive layoffs currently underway at the company.
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Solution provider Dimension Data plans to hire some 300 data center experts in the next 18 months to back its strategy to quadruple its data center business to $4 billion by 2018, some of which it expects to achieve through strategic, data-center focused acquisitions.
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Apple has decided to turn its Mesa, Arizona, location originally slotted for the creation of scratch-resistant sapphire crystal coverings into a data center, investing some $2 billion over 10 years to convert the building into what the vendor is calling a “command center for our global networks.”
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At its annual Partner Exchange event in San Francisco, VMware (VMW) announced plans to launch a series of new programs and updated solutions competencies for its partner network, including a new Professional Services Program designed to help partners to sell and deliver their own service engagements, effectively placing the focus on delivering services over simply selling licenses.
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Toshiba America Information Systems has appointed company veteran Richard Vaughn as the new director of Channel Sales for its Business Solutions Division.
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EMC has unveiled a “hyper-converged system” based on Intel processors and VMware EVO:RAIL software to create a software-defined data center (SDDC) platform that the company said has been built specifically to be sold on through the channel.
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Juniper Networks (JNPR) has realigned its relationship with its channel partners to make it easier not only to do business with, but also succeed in what the company has targeted as “high-growth areas.”
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Juniper Networks (JNPR) has realigned its relationship with its channel partners to make it easier not only to do business with, but also succeed in what the company has targeted as “high-growth areas.”
Read the story here.
Welcome to the weekend! Before we can kick off the festivities, let's take a look at the top 7 stories on The VAR Guy for the week ending Feb. 6.
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