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Dell announced it has ended a decadelong reseller relationship with EMC this month through which it sold more than a billion dollars worth of midrange and entry-level storage products.

Rackspace hopes to make using virtual desktops easier by hosting Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, it announced on Monday.

Companies interested in taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer, but reluctant to trust sensitive information off-site now have a new alternative with Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform appliance. Microsoft has teamed up with strategic hardware partners to develop an appliance-based approach allowing businesses to deploy and control their own cloud.

Microsoft has for the first time allowed selected partners to sell its flagship software products as downloads. The move sees Microsoft selling Windows 7, Office 2010 and other flagship titles via ESD (Electronic Software Delivery) at online stores including the PC Advisor Software Shop.

Quest Software today announced a full set of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 ready solutions designed to help prepare, migrate to, manage, and customize SharePoint Server 2010.

Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) used the opening day of its Americas partner conference to pledge a new approach and commitment to the small and medium-sized business market (SMB), to become an easier company for partners to do business with, and to take more market share from rival Dell or, as it's known around here, "our friends from Texas."

In a move that reflects its greater competition with systems vendors, Cisco systems will not renew a certified reseller and service contract with HP this spring.

Apple has moved to boost its small business and enterprise operations with the launch of an Australian version of the Apple Consultants Network.

HandySoft Global Corp., a U.S.-based vendor of business process management software, is "bullish" towards the market place as it prepares to establish a partner presence in Canada by next year, an executive said.

VeriSign has announced its strategic approach for working with the Internet community to deploy DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the .com and .net Top Level Domain Names (TLDs).

Avaya has announced the debut of Avaya Connect, a global program to drive greater profitability and growth for channel partners, in Asia Pacific. Avaya Connect represents a major overhaul of the company's existing channel programs into a globally consistent framework that streamlines processes, pricing, training and certification requirements while enabling channel partners to serve customers better, the company said.