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The Best And Worst Channel Company Stocks Of The First Half Of 2017
The publicly held channel companies on our watch list were almost evenly split between stock price gainers and losers. See who was up and who was down in the first half of 2017.
Huawei U.S. Leader On Winning Against Cisco Through 'Openness', AWS Relationship And U.S. Market 'Commitment'
Huawei executive Ian Foo spoke with CRN about the company's channel strategy and why "trust has to be built" for the Huawei to succeed in the U.S. market.
CSRA CEO: $498M Defense Contract Makes Company An Industry Leader In Cloud And Military IT
CSRA's eight-year contract to provide the Department of Defense with private cloud will enable the department to accelerate new customer onboarding, lower ownership costs and strengthen security.
Google Cloud Slashes Price On Local Flash Storage
The latest salvo in the "stack wars" makes it cheaper to infuse virtual machines with high-performance storage of temporary data.
Huawei Reiterates Its US Market Commitment And Talks About Winning Against Cisco
Huawei executive Ian Foo spoke with CRN about the company's channel strategy and why "trust has to be built" for the Huawei to succeed in the U.S. market.
Here's Who Made Gartner's 2017 Magic Quadrant For Unified Communications
Cisco, Mitel, Microsoft and Avaya are just some of the unified communications vendors that topped Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications this year.
Conduent Closes 80 Sites, Looks To Exit Non-Core Businesses In Push To Cut Costs By $700M
"Conduent is becoming a leaner, more focused organization, enabling greater agility and sharper market execution," said CEO Ashok Vemuri.
Brocade's Former Channel Chief Lands At Ciena
Ciena confirms that Sandra Glaser Cheek has been named vice president of global partners and alliances at the global networking telecom company.
Flaw Or Feature? CarbonBlack Refutes DirectDefense Report Of Data Leak From Endpoint Detection And Response Product
CarbonBlack says the solution provider is 'incorrect' in saying that it has an architectural flaw that exfiltrates data, while DirectDefense says thousands of files and customer data have been exposed.
Report: French Telecom Altice Prepping Bid For Charter Communications
After being linked to Verizon and, later, Sprint, now Charter is reportedly being pursued by French telecom giant Altice, according to a news story published Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.
Q&A: New Regional Intelisys Channel Manager On M&A Activity, Importance Of Partner Evolution
Stephanie Bouras, who is supporting Florida-based solution providers for master agent Intelisys, shares with CRN how she aims to help partners stay ahead of the curve.
Stepped-Up Storage: P1 Technologies Moves Beyond 'Block And Tackle' To Setting Strategy, Technology Directions
P1 Technologies, a small solution provider serving customers with a big appetite for storage, realizes it needed a formal CTO to help take it to the next level.
Avaya Partners: 'It's Time For A Change'
Partners weigh-in on Avaya's new CEO, reorganization efforts and potential of coming out of bankruptcy as a public company this fall.
Gartner: 10 Biggest Cybersecurity Consulting Companies By Revenue
These 10 companies dominated the security consulting market in 2016, accounting in total for 63.5 percent of the market, and have their eye on accelerating investments this year.
Tableau Acquisition Aims To Bring Natural Language Capabilities To Data Analysis
The addition of technology from ClearGraph will make it possible for users to query data using conversational-style search.
DXC Technology Shuts 58 Facilities, Makes Broad Management Cuts In A $1B Cost Savings Push
In its first quarter of operations, DXC has eliminated 40 percent of the VP and director-level positions in the 170,000-person firm, while culling 1.2 million square feet of real estate.
Digital Solutions Firm CI&T Acquires Comrade, A Strategy And Design Agency
Comrade, a strategy and customer experience design agency, joins CI&T's team of more than 2,500 strategists, designers and engineers in a deal that closed earlier this week.
Avaya Appoints New CEO And Plans To Emerge From Bankruptcy As A Public Company
"We will enter this next chapter with unique strengths and a new capital structure," said Jim Chirico, the man named as Avaya's new CEO.
CRN Exclusive: WorkMarket Buys OnForce To Boost Technology Services Firepower In Workforce Automation Arena
Solution providers using WorkMarket and OnForce will benefit from increased scale and operational efficiencies, according to WorkMarket's CEO, as well as enhanced account engagement and customer support.
