Pre-EMC merger garage sale reportedly includes $2 billion deal with Francisco Partners and Elliot Management
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Flat sales for Dell ahead of the EMC merger
Dell’s holding company Denali reports revenue down 2 percent year-over-year with sales gloomy for most of Dell’s businesses
HPE IT services merger with CSC is ‘right step’ for customers
HPE spins off IT services unit as it 'refocuses' on mobile and cloud, both firms announce results
Lenovo European manufacturing move will better serve channel
Faster and cheaper deliveries for EMEA customers, says Lenovo, as Hungary starts production on storage and networking equipment
Microsoft plans SQL Server 2016 release on 1 June
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 will come in three variants: Enterprise, Standard and Express
Microsoft reports good Azure results, but overall sales are weak
Microsoft says its commercial cloud is now at a $10bn annualised run rate
Opera releases desktop browser with free built-in VPN
Free ‘unlimited’ 256-bit encrypted VPN comes with Opera’s latest browser release as 'everyone deserves to be private online'
Intel slashes 12,000 jobs as move to cloud and Internet of Things continues
Chipmaker reports steady revenues, but is taking a $1.2bn restructuring charge as it pushes cloud and IoT ‘growth engines’
Another faltering quarter for IBM despite more cloud and analytics revenue
IBM reports a 21 percent fall in net profit to £1.61bn in the first quarter ending 31 March
Google apologises and pays out for global cloud outage
Compute Engine bug wrongly rerouted all incoming global traffic for 18 minutes