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Jeffrey Schwartz

Jeffrey Schwartz is executive editor of Redmond Channel Partner and an editor-at-large at Redmond magazine, affiliate publications of Government Computer News.

Dell to sink $1B into its cloud push

Dell said April 7 that it plans to spend $1 billion in cloud technology over its next fiscal year.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Dell to acquire cloud integrator Boomi

Dell has announced it will acquire Boomi, which operates a service designed to simplify the integration of cloud services with premises-based infrastructure.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Microsoft's Ray Ozzie to retire

Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie is stepping down from his role and will retire, the company announced late Monday.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Ballmer fills key executive holes

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has named three new company presidents and reorganized two of the company's business units.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

HP taps outsider as CEO

Once again, Hewlett-Packard Co. has turned to an outsider, naming Leo Apotheker as president and CEO and former Oracle President Ray Lane as non-executive chairman.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Hurd resurfaces at Oracle

Oracle has hired former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd as co-president.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Citrix to acquire VMLogix

In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Intel to acquire McAfee for $7.68B

Blockbuster deal will let Intel provide hardware-based security.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Symantec makes $1.3B play for VeriSign's security biz

Deal will make Symantec a leader in identity management and public key infrastructure.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

HP shakes up mobile market with Palm acquisition

Hewlett-Packard Co. said today it has agreed to acquire Palm Inc., credited with creating the smart phone, for $1.2 billion.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Cisco to HP: Drop dead

The rivalry between Cisco and Hewlett-Packard heats up as Cisco announces it will not renew its systems integrator agreement with HP.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz
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SAP shakes up executive suite

SAP has replaced Leo Apotheker with two co-CEOs as it it struggles with customer complaints and poor financial performance.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Oracle-Sun deal gets green light

The European Commission today cleared Oracle's $7.4 billion agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems, paving the way for the two companies to close the deal.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

Microsoft and HP ink cloud, virtualization pact

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard disclosed a $250 million, three-year partnership to develop and market next-generation data center technology and application infrastructure that combines virtualization, system management and cloud computing.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

VMware breaks into new market after buying Zimbra

VMware on Tuesday said it is acquiring Zimbra from Yahoo, extending VMware's reach beyond system virtualization.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz

HP extends public, private cloud portfolio

Hewlett-Packard this week bolstered its private and public cloud portfolio, looking to extend its reach to enterprises of all sizes.

  • By Jeffrey Schwartz