VMware Cloud on AWS, which was announced a year ago and became available in August, beat Cisco-Google to the market, and is already providing customers with the flexibility and economics they want from a hybrid cloud solution.

Palo Alto Networks has launched a pilot for a new NextWave Partner Program specialization, one it says will allow partners to take advantage of the security opportunities around AWS and other public cloud vendors.

Data management consultants, systems integrators and MSPs are the focus of the new Partner Success Program that debuted this week.

Verizon channel chief Joe Chuisano has been busy evolving the carrier's partner program since taking the reins from Janet Schijns this summer. He talks with CRN about hot selling opportunities for partners and channel program plans.

Brian Robinson, who has been CFO of the solution provider since August 2016, is named the company's new CEO, and says he's ready to go after new expansion opportunities.

Lenovo's ThinkAgile SX for Microsoft Azure Stack is part of its plug-and-play ThinkAgile line of software-defined data center offerings. Here are five key points in the product's latest developments.

Data protection vendor Datto and IT service management vendor Autotask will merge, creating a giant with more than 13,000 SMB-focused channel partners across the globe.

Here's how Extreme Networks bought Avaya, Brocade Communications and Zebra Technologies networking assets for 'bargain' prices.

The opportunity to integrate Datto's backup offering with Autotask's remote monitoring and management tool and suite of appliances is a win for solution providers.

Here are six container management platforms that illustrate Kubernetes is the de facto standard infrastructure for the container stack.

Comcast attributes another successful quarter for its cable services division to a combination of Gigabit-speed internet offerings and growth within business services, especially as the provider captures more SMB customers.

Solution provider GrayMatter has paired up with DC Water to successfully deploy connected fountains in public places like schools and daycare centers.

D&H's Peter DiMarco says adding virtual and augmented reality offerings will enable solution providers to move beyond technology and get more involved with curriculum and learning strategy.

The Datto merger will put Autotask in more direct competition with Continuum and SolarWinds MSP, both of whom are also heavily focused on remote management and monitoring and backup and disaster recovery.

HPE President Antonio Neri said the move will allow HPE to focus its resources on higher margin and on growth areas of the business, including servers and storage for Tier 2 and Tier 3 cloud-based businesses.

Supermicro is hitting all parts of the market, from servers to IoT. Here's what CEO Charles Liang has in store for the future of the company.

GE CEO John Flannery took the stage at the company's Minds and Machines conference to talk about how critical partners are in GE's industrial IoT strategy.

The comments illustrate the increasing heat of the hybrid cloud arms race between Cisco and Dell Technologies, which brought VMware into its family of companies in the $58 billion acquisition of EMC barely a month before VMware Cloud on AWS was announced.

Solution providers working with Extreme Networks are pumped up about new growth opportunities driven by the vendor's recent technology acquisitons.

PlanetOne President Lauren Shapiro has resigned. The telecom veteran plans to keep working in the industry, as PlanetOne plans to expand its team.