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Activist investors wreak havoc on Wall Street again

02 May 2018 • 4 min read

Investors force out long-serving chief execs from Xerox and Commvault, in the latest of a string of activist assaults

The role of activist investors in technology firms has again been thrust into the spotlight after campaigns led to the removal of the CEOs at Commvault and Xerox. On publishing its financial res...

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£10m data storage reseller Union Solutions sells up

Monthly Round-up April 2018

Vendor

Broadcom tells partner negotiating for charity 'VMware is not for everybody'

“The statement that came back to me from Broadcom was, ‘We appreciate that with these changes VMware is not for everybody,’” says Tom Smyth, head of technical solutions as Misco. “Everyone else can use it. Broadcom is not going to gear its decisions towards them anymore. … I can appreciate that. I can respect their decisions. It’s not something I would do personally.”

24 April 2024 • 5 min read

Vendor

Broadcom suspends VMware sales for one week to migrate SAP to Oracle

Customers will also lose the ability to set user permission, manage enterprise agreements, or purchase support between 30 April and 6 May

11 April 2024 • 3 min read

Vendor

Dell has laid off 13,000 employees in one year amid slump

Dell Technologies’ total employee count shrank from 133,000 a year ago to 120,000 as of this month, down 9.7 percent. The tech giant is awaiting a turnaround in PC and infrastructure sales that has yet to materialise, according to its most recent earnings.

27 March 2024 • 3 min read