by Dave Courbanou
IBM, HTC Partner to Push Android Deeper into the Enterprise
HTC and IBM apparently have struck a deal to help HTC gain more Android enterprise love and IBM gain more mobile proliferation of its software. The duo teamed up at IBM’s latest Loutusphere conference and demoed HTC devices running IBM’s smart business applications. So what’s next?
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The VAR Guy is ready to unplug for the weekend. But before our resident blogger heads home, here are the nine most read channel partner news stories from our blog network — The VAR Guy, MSPmentor and Talkin’ Cloud — for the week ending January 6, 2012.
Virginia (“Ginni”) M. Rometty officially
Welcome to 2012. The first IT trend of the New Year: Many high-tech companies enter 2012 with new or recently named CEOs (examples include AMD, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard and IBM). Plus, a lengthy list of prominent CEOs (representing Cisco Systems, Dell, Microsoft, Oracle and Research in Motion) are under pressure to boost sales, profits and channel partner success. Here’s what channel partners should expect.
Dozens of cloud vendors and potential channel partners gathered in Mountain View, Calif., on November 7 for the inaugural 

Most VARs in the open source channel are happy just to get free code contributions from their users. Canonical, however, has taken community engagements one step further with the announcement of a user-driven hardware-certification program. Will it work? Here are some thoughts.
The VAR Guy hopes to watch this evening’s Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls Game 3 showdown. But before our resident blogger turns his attention to South Beach, Miami, here are six channel partner-related blog entries that The VAR Guy didn’t have time to write for the week ending May 20, 2011.
It looks like Big Blue may be trying to counter the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) world with its latest ‘standardized’ approach in the marketplace. IBM’s new
It’s often been said that there’s no such thing as too much information. But for a company whose data stream has become a river, dealing with the deluge can often feel as overwhelming as trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon. And with more data being created every minute, it can be easy for a company to stop fighting the undertow.
Sputter, sputter. The VAR Guy is running on fumes today. The recent
ISVs in the market for a mobile application development platform might want to check out WorkLight. The company is launching a partner program for ISVs and OEMs looking to capitalize on the growing demand for mobile applications that integrate with the workplace. Intrigued? Read on for the details.