Vendors, distributors and solution providers spent at least $19 billion on the most significant deals in the first half of 2017, placing major bets to gain more expertise around cloud, security and the data center.
System builders say that competition between the two chipmakers in the enthusiast space is driving massive technology improvements and helping them differentiate themselves.
The U.S. market accounts for about 20 percent of the PC market overall, and HP and Dell were the only two PC vendors to gain U.S. market share during the quarter.
In a letter viewed by CRN, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky sought to reassure the company's channel partners and denied allegations of inappropriate ties to the Russian government.
There was a flurry of M&A activity in the security industry in the first half of 2017 as more companies looked to move into the market and those already in the space looked to double down.
Observable Networks' technology, injected into Stealthwatch, will let businesses more accurately identify insider and external threats and can be activated in public cloud environments, Cisco says.
More than three-quarters of the technology companies on our watch list recorded gains in the price of their publicly traded shares in the first half of 2017. Take a look at who was up and who was down.
The remote management and monitoring vendor says the custom-designed offering will provide MSPs with positioning, sales training, pricing, packaging and lead-generation support.
One solution provider instills it as a core value, and a study sees benefits for employers in better morale and career development. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)
Personal data on more than 14 million Verizon customers have been exposed in an incident that once again shines light on the importance of moving data protection practices to the cloud.
Accenture has purchased a 70-person digital optimization firm that uses deep research and experimentation to get to the heart of helping customers find better experiences online.
Despite statements of support for an open internet, telecom carriers are still pushing the FCC to reclassify broadband as a luxury, not a utility, to give them an edge in the marketplace.
Carrie Maslen, a vice president at Samsung Business, reflects on her own experiences and the need for women in the channel to advocate for themselves early on in their career.
Telecom M&A activity has picked up during the first half of 2017 with some mega-mergers coming to a close and some smaller deals just getting going. CRN rounded up the 10 biggest telecom acquisitions so far in 2017.
Microsoft will now compensate its own salespeople for working more closely with Cloud Solution Provider partners, Gavriella Schuster tells the audience of partners at Inspire 2017.
