7 Biggest Stories of the Week, Jan. 20-23
Here are The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending Jan. 23.
January 23, 2015
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My best friend Friday has come for a visit, which means the weekend will soon follow. But before we sign off for our 48 hours of respite, here are The VAR Guy’s seven biggest stories for the week ending Jan. 23.
IBM registered another miss for Q4 2014, posting a 12 percent shortfall in revenue compared to the same period last year to $24.1 billion, well short of analysts’ estimates of $24.8 billion. Per share earnings for the quarter fell 4 percent from last year to $5.54 a share while net income from continuing operations came in at $5.5 billion, an 11 percent slide from the year earlier period.
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Microsoft (MSFT) finally has moved on from its traditional posture as lord of the PC manor to seek what only Apple (AAPL) has enjoyed—it wants an adoring, cult following. It wants the love and it wants you to feel like it’s deserving of your affection.
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VMware (VMW) is giving small cloud startups a chance to grow their businesses with the launch of vCloud Air Edge, an incubation program designed to help small businesses develop their cloud-centric offerings.
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Shameless plug alert: The VAR Guy has kicked off its inaugural Top 50 Channel Influencers survey, recognizing those in the channel who are truly making a difference in what we hope will become an annual event. And we need your input.
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Lenovo and EMC have rolled out a reference architecture for building private cloud and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platforms using Lenovo Flex System converged infrastructure and EMC VSPEX storage.
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Ingram Micro (IM) announced the formation of its U.S. Advanced Solutions organization, which unites the company’s Advanced Computing and Advanced Technology Solutions teams under one roof. The newly formed organization will be led by Senior Vice President Tim Ament.
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“Pure-play” OpenStack vendor Mirantis believes existing cloud computing training programs for OpenStack don’t meet the soaring demand for expertise in the open source cloud platform. That’s why it’s expanding its OpenStack training offerings with two new courses and a certificate verification portal.
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“Pure-play” OpenStack vendor Mirantis believes existing cloud computing training programs for OpenStack don’t meet the soaring demand for expertise in the open source cloud platform. That’s why it’s expanding its OpenStack training offerings with two new courses and a certificate verification portal.
Read the story here.
Here are The VAR Guy's seven biggest stories for the week ending Jan. 23.
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