Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) unveiled Google (GOOG) Chromebooks with 11- and 14-inch screens only one week before Microsoft (MSFT) ships Windows 8.1. It’s a sign of the times as HP further diversifies beyond Windows.
Some investors want to fire Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Stealing Gates’ most famous phrase, here are 10 reasons why that’s the stupidest thing The VAR Guy has ever heard.
HP CEO Meg Whitman will address analysts and investors on Oct. 9, while Michael Dell shifts his technology company to private markets. Who has the near-term and long-term advantage? The VAR Guy offers the answers.
Toshiba hosted Virtual Desktop Service, leveraging VMware Horizon and more, attempts to address BYOD and Windows XP migration headaches.
Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise business and CEO Steve Ballmer’s potential successor, is receptive to media questions. So, here are 10 of them from The VAR Guy.
Adobe has been hacked in a big way. Instead of running for the exits, ADBE investors continue to lift Adobe’s stock price. How’s that for ironic?
Poke around the cloud services provider (CSP) industry and you’ll see plenty of fast-growth VMware (VMW) partners. One prime example: iLand. Check out these business milestones.
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) wants to build an app store for Software Defined Networking (SDN) applications. But if HP builds it will developers, ISVs and channel partners come?
Juniper Channel Chief Emilio Umeoka will exit. Veterans like David Helfer, VP of worldwide channels and commercial, and Doug Erickson, VP of worldwide partner programs and development, are now the names to know.
As K-12 schools and colleges face Microsoft’s Windows XP End of LIfe deadline (April 8, 2014), some educational institutions may jump to Google Chromebooks.
Enough with the discovery and negotiations. Here’s to take a business deal across the finish line.
OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, is beginning to attract a training marketplace and user guides for administrators. Is that enough?
When Ubuntu 13.10 launches Oct. 17, Canonical will need to work closely with cloud services providers (CSPs), new software companies, telcos, VARs and PC makers. Here’s why.
Tech Data (TECD) veteran Kai Cheung is driving Carbonite’s (CARB) SMB cloud backup strategy with technology distributors.
Connect Marketing, a long-time PR advisor to Symantec (SYMC) now represents a rival security software company: Sophos. Here’s what’s next.
This isn’t your ordinary top technology predictions list. Compiled by The VAR Guy, the Top 100 Technology Predictions for 2014 includes some offbeat ideas — and reader submissions. Join in.
What if VARs could help to transform corporate IT departments into IT services brokers? VMware (VMW) will share more details during sessions at VMworld Europe 2013.
Use the VMware Certified Associate (VMA) designation to train and educate your marketing, sales and entry-level tech professionals on cloud, end-user data center and network virtualization.
By the time Microsoft begins selling Surface 2 tablets and accessories on Oct. 22, will Channel Chief Phil Sorgen weigh in with an updated channel strategy for mobile partners? The VAR Guy sure hopes so. Even a high-level blog talking about Surface’s channel direction would be welcome.
At VMworld Barcelona, expect updates on the virtualization and cloud company’s key initiatives: Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), VMware NSX (Nicira), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and vCloud Hybrid Service. Here’s a preview.
