The security industry saw more threats and funding opportunities in 2017, with massive data breaches and ransomware attacks crippling major institutions, and vendors tapping into the deep pockets of private equity and IPOs.
Solution providers face increasing challenges when protecting customer's IT environments that now include public cloud, hybrid cloud and the Internet of Things.
Ruckus Networks president Dan Rabinovitsj said the company is putting a tight focus on the channel's role in growing revenue in key verticals and with initiatives in the cloud.
Samsung Knox offers data separation solutions, like Knox Workspace, that protects financial firm's data while allowing users to still get the full value from their devices.
George Pedersen co-founded ManTech International in 1968 and has served as CEO since 1995. In January, he'll be succeeded by current president and COO Kevin Phillips, himself a 12-year company veteran.
It was a whirlwind year for IoT as companies announced new platforms and security became top of mind for customers. Here's the 10 coolest IoT stories in 2017.
Traditional use cases are still a major factor in enterprise adoption of cloud services, but the shift to cutting-edge technologies and methodologies will accelerate in 2018.
While cloud providers play a role in collecting and manipulating data from IoT devices, how the devices are deployed and integrated will be key to channel partners' success in this business, said Stephen DiFranco.
Customers aren't just using one cloud provider for everything and that's giving solution providers more opportunities, provided they can handle the sales, management and process of moving workloads between different cloud providers.
Partners who spoke with CRN praised many of the strategic changes made in the past year, particularly Xerox further enabling custom app development, and expressed support for first-year CEO Jeff Jacobson.
Solution providers can emulate Amazon's obession with clearing customer obstacles and purchase objections, former Amazon executive John Rossman told partners at the NexGen 2017 Conference & Technology Expo.
Dorothy Copeland told attendees of The NexGen 2017 Conference that IBM's cloud was built for artificial intelligence, a technology that will thrive because of a massive developer ecosystem.
Stax Designer, which was previewed at the NexGen 2017 conference, can cut the hours or days needed to provision new customers or new users with an MSP's services stacks, Pax8 said.
The hyper-converged infrastructure market continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. Here are CRN's picks for the 10 coolest hyper-converged products of the year.
Big data remains one of the most dynamic technology areas of the IT industry with demand for big data software and services expected to exceed $200 billion by 2020. Here are a few new products that caught our attention in 2017.
Digital security vendor Gemalto has until Friday to decide whether or not it wishes to accept IT services firm Atos' acquisition offer, which offers a 42 percent premium on the company's Friday closing price.
