Investment firm Elliott Management wants Citrix Systems channel partner numbers cut back and less spent on R&D to help bump up profitability

Investment firm Elliott Management wants Citrix Systems channel partner numbers cut back and less spent on R&D to help bump up profitability
The Marketing Excellence award recognised the achievements of Arrow’s Ideal Data Centre programme which created many channel opportunities
Rabah Krouchy has been appointed as EMEA director of alliances and channels, after previous roles at Qlik, MicroFocus, Sybase, CA and Merant
Cloud specialists from HP, VMware and Avnet will address the major challenges facing IT service providers at a launch event next week
The partnership will see System C make Yellowfin’s 'easy-to-use' BI solution, and associated training and implementation services, available to existing and future UK healthcare clients
Until now, the company has sold direct to mainly the telecoms industry, but it is now branching out to vertical sectors like banking and insurance, healthcare, utilities, government and retail
Claranet research among IT decision makers found they are twice as likely to focus on cost reduction and tech support of staff as they are on things that grow the top line
Industry analyst Forrester Research predicts a quarter of enterprises worldwide will be using graph databases in some capacity by 2017
Avnet is running a series of SolutionsPath events in the UK, Germany and Austria, aimed at sales and pre-sales partner representatives
Arrow has 25 classrooms located across five education centres in London, Reading, Manchester, Nottingham and Harrogate
The KPMG 8th annual Service Provider and Performance Satisfaction study includes detailed analysis of current corporate IT spend in Britain
Exclusive Group's almost doubling of sales for the year has been aided by global expansion of services through acquisitions and partnerships
2015 will see SMEs rushing to update their technology to take advantage of the economic recovery according to Virgin Media Business
The five year forecast takes account of new wifi protocols and new interfaces for wireless switching products
The new partner programme for resellers will be launched next month and will offer rewards across four levels to those who sign up
This week in Davos world leaders expressed fear about the uncontrolled growth of the Internet of Things, Intercede says education is needed
The UK is behind many other countries when it comes to security but most companies globally underestimate the threats says a Cisco report
The Markets and Markets forecast is up to 2019, with the analyst saying the growth of unstructured data is driving the market.
The communications firm says firms must get a grip on their big data but learn to walk first
The company has signed Armanino, an accounting and business consulting firm based in California, to push its business intelligence solution
The Smart Bluetooth market will grow at over 9 percent a year until 2020 says analyst Markets and Markets
The localisation of digital services development could bring new channel opportunities in local government
A free, downloadable toolkit has been produced to help SMBs create or improve their own business continuity plan
Post Office survey shows SMB founders to be 45-54 which could have a knock(ing)-on channel effect
Partnership legitimises Bitcoin trading in the UK and will allow customers to use payment cards
Dell's chief researcher predicts data centres will be full of servers, servers and nothing but servers
Channel partners worldwide have evaluated the vital elements of partner vendor programmes
A self-serving study of its channel customers shows the value of the occasional reseller reality check
PCI specifications are merely the beginning, change and configuration auditing must be added on top
Socitm explains how DSDM can harmonise the disparate Prince2 and Agile methodologies