Topping this week’s roundup of companies that came to win is Hewlett-Packard, which successful pulled off the mega-split of the giant IT vendor into two companies.
Also making the list this week are X-IO Technologies for its plan to go 100 percent channel, IBM for its Gravitant acquisition that will expand its cloud computing offerings, the Microsoft-Red Hat alliance to bring Red Hat software to Azure, and an acquisition by Microsoft star solution provider New Signature that will accelerate the company’s growth.
Not everyone in the IT industry was making smart moves this week, of course. For a rundown of companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn’t make good decisions, check out this week’s 5 Companies That Had A Rough Week roundup.