Verizon is consolidating its channel leadership team and cut staff from both Verizon and XO channel programs following the close of its XO Communications acquisition, sources told CRN.

For the week ending Sept. 29, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

The Dallas-based solution provider said its SAP HANA platform has enabled a faster, more streamlined ITOA experience that allows for predictive analytics via machine learning tools.

Legacy EMC partners have been especially successful selling Dell EMC servers, and that's a direct threat to Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Byrne says.

Fortinet Vice President of Americas Channels and Enhanced Technologies Joe Sykora has left the security vendor, multiple sources confirmed to CRN. Jon Bove, who previously led regional channels at Fortinet before a brief stint at Proofpoint, rejoins the company.

Solution provider BlueAlly, which appeared on the CRN Fast Growth 150 list for a third consecutive year in 2017, has used a dynamic marketing approach to help drive net-new business.

The CRN Test Center goes hands on with the iPhone 8, which includes new features such as wireless charging and an enhanced display.

The combined Sirius-Forsythe organization will have a $500 million security business, a 200-employee managed services practice, and count IBM, Cisco, Dell EMC, Palo Alto and NetApp as its largest vendor partners.

CRN looks at five key issues channel partners and customers will want to think about as they get ready for next week's NetApp Insight 2017 conference.

CenturyLink's current channel chief John DeLozier will be sharing responsibilities with Level 3's channel leader Garrett Gee following the anticipated close of CenturyLink's combination with Level 3 Communications.

Salesforce's Tiffani Bova said that solution providers who use technology to prioritize customer experience will be the most successful at helping their clients grow. Here are five takeaways from her keynote.

The deal will create a 3,000-employee, $3.26 billion channel giant with a $510 million combined security practice as well as enormous infrastructure capabilities around both IBM and Oracle.

Partners seem to have taken Dell EMC's services message to heart, but hitting Dell EMC's tier minimums is an uphill climb for some.

New promotions and programs are coming soon to boost storage sales as part of Byrne's effort to put distance between Dell EMC and competitors like HPE.

Entrepreneurs starting up a solution provider business should consider states with a thriving economy, a large base of potential customers and limited competition from other solution providers.

The relationship-nurturing add-on for popular business suites places phone numbers and email addresses in-front of small business professionals.

Although Cisco is still the dominant player in the networking world, both its switch and router market share declined several points during the second quarter of 2017, according to research firm IDC.

VMware is making the case that containers deployed inside its vSphere 6.5 outperform those deployed on bare metal and lead to significant cost savings for customers.

Scale Computing's HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure appliances now tie to the Google Cloud to give partners the benefit of offering a connection between high-performance, on-premises NVMe flash and the flexibility of the cloud.

Scale Computing's HC3 hyper-converged solution and HPE's ClearPass security offering highlighted the many products and services that were showcased at the 2017 Midsize Enterprise Summit in San Antonio.