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'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge

CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'

Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier

Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up.

As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered

HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions

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Hiring at India’s Big Four outsourcers stalls, as AI seemingly makes an impact

Revenue growth is sluggish, too

Repent ye inefficient – the ‘Palantir-ization’ of IT services is upon us

Palantir's former IT boss just took over as CEO of Thrive-backed AI MSP platform

Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings

Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders

Tariff threat plays havoc with US PC market, economy not helping

American businesses join Win 10 upgrade train, consumers happy to sit on the platform

VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland'

The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better

Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack

Intruders accessed important systems but tells customers their data is safe

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

UK online reseller bought out of administration in -pre-pack agreement, say sources

India eats China's lunch in US smartphone manufacturing

But overall sales are basically flat, says Canalys

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VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out

Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today

Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax

Shipments in America flat, surge across ROTW ahead of Win 10 support cutoff

Trying to work on laptop as outage continues

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down

Taiwan thumbs its nose at Beijing by blocking chip exports to SMIC and Huawei

A symbolic political move

VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe

Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware

Microsoft will let partners get creative with pay-when-you-want SaaS plans

A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money

India’s services giants brace for impact as US tariffs bite their customers

Wipro was forced to pause an active SAP project due to client’s jitters

No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st

Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike

Have I Been Pwned likely to ban resellers from buying subs, citing 'sh*tty behavior' and onerous support requests

'What are customers actually getting from resellers other than massive price markups?' asks Troy Hunt

Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024

And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain

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Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners

Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that

The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now

'For 30 years you thought you were business geniuses,' veteran analyst tells resellers and distributors

Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware

Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel

Microsoft preps big guns to shift Copilot software and PCs

IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook

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Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry

Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk

SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week

CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO

Advania UK gobbles up IT services rival CCS Media

Acquisition signals consolidation in the market

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Microsoft's Copilot+ machines suck at one of computing's oldest use cases

Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index

50% dive in market cap during 2024 forcing CEO Pat Gelsinger to revisit strategy

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IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

'They actually replaced me with a younger employee'

Fujitsu picks model-maker Cohere as its partner for the rapid LLM-development dance

Will become exclusive route to market for joint projects

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Pretty much all the headaches at MSPs stem from cybersecurity

More cybercrime means more problems as understaffed teams stretched to the limit

Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart

Invests $350 million in Flipkart

Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud

But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems

Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over

Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?

Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO

Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing

Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses

Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief'

VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content

Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking

One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator

Boss at one of Microsoft's largest resellers quits, admits secret share deals

London Stock Exchange listed Bytes Technology Group 'working to clarify details' after Neil Murphy resigns

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eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

9% of workforce getting boot after execs hired too many during pandemic

AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services

Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill

Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group

Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors

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As Broadcom nukes VMware's channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix

A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction

India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI

Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed

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Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering

Suppliers don’t know much about what’s going on. Which leaves users in limbo, too

Infosys loses ten-year, $1.5 billion contract announced just three months ago

PLUS: Fujitsu Japan spins out servers, storage, and PCs; Japan’s moonshot on track; Samsung reportedly delays Arizona fab opening

Everyone's talking about AI but industry reps say few are ready to implement

Finding a reason to do it might be the hardest part

SonicWall swallows Solutions Granted amid cybersecurity demand surge

CEO Bob VanKirk makes near-20-year partnership official, teases big things coming to EMEA

China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com

5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile

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Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes

Gulf states and 'The Stans' could become new tech hotspot – analyst

One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech

Microsoft delays debut of IoT security offer due to 'unexpected system challenges'

Software giant tells partners not to sell it but also happy to take your cash now

Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU

Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy

Two top execs quit Infosys mere months after its president skipped

CISO and head of HR depart as services market tightens

Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan

All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout'

Dell pulls storage, PCs, and compute into Apex ITaaS platform – a little late

Continues feeding the hybrid cloud monster

India's major IT outsourcers slow hiring and fret about deal pipelines

Two years ago the big four hired 243,000 workers. Last year that fell to 82,000

Microsoft coughs up some change after allegedly selling software to no-no companies

Nadella happy to sling code to Russians and Iranians, or nah?

Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money

Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off

Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken

There's a lot of manual work to do from now to March to make sure you don't break the cloud bank

India’s top four outsourcers report rosy revenues, mild macroeconomic misgivings

Attrition woes subside as workers stop shifting, producing pleasing cost savings

Microsoft fumbles zero trust upgrade for some Asian customers

Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays

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Everything as a service – with a smile

How Lenovo 360 helps its partners diversify their revenue streams

Can you outpace the competition?

Lenovo’s top channel partners can win a trip to Bahrain to see the F1 Grand Prix

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Cloud vendors should take some responsibility for stolen compute, says Canalys CEO

Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters

Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised Azure AD tweaks

Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?

Extreme Networks fesses up to selling kit to Russian hypersonic missile maker

Buyer Avangard's ordnance has reportedly been used against Ukraine