The longtime Microsoft executive will be succeeded by another company veteran, Kurt DelBene.

In the wake of news that Verizon's channel chief Janet Schijns is being succeeded by Joe Chuisano, partners remain hopeful that the carrier's channel commitment won't waver under the new leadership.

For the week ending July 7, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

DXC and Tribridge executives detail the scale the combined firm will have around Dynamics 365, the vertical specialties for each company's Dynamics practice, and the new geographies Tribridge plans to initially target.

Kieran Harty says Tintri's IPO was delayed because of investors' misunderstanding of the all-flash storage company's business and that Tintri has a plan to take itself to profitability.

Janet Schijns, a seven-year Verizon channel veteran, is leaving the company and is being succeeded by Joe Chuisano, the telecom giant's current managing director of Verizon Business Markets, CRN has learned.

For the week ending July 7, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

Demand for big data products and services is growing more than 18 percent a year and that's giving rise to a steady stream of startups bringing their big data technology to the market.

The president of the family-owned solution provider tells how the second generation has built what their father launched. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

AT&T, in collaboration with venture capital firm Coral Group, is investing $200 million in the support of startups focusing on connected services and SDN technology.

The software giant appears to be "pushing more [business] to partners or self service," one solution provider told CRN.

Exclusive Group is breaking into the North American market, announcing on Thursday its acquisition of $230 million security value-added distributor Fine Tec.

The security threat around IoT are becoming real, with recent examples of major DDoS attacks, ransomware, and more. Here's why ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare said he thinks the opportunity is bigger than ever for partners and vendors alike around IoT security.

Digital transformation projects and scheduled refreshes will provide a boost in the enterprise WLAN market for the rest of 2017, which has seen a soft start, says an IDC analyst.

About three-quarters of the planned layoffs would be located outside the U.S., according to a report.

Veeam and Nutanix's new agreement will allow partners to offer a comprehensive enterprise cloud solution in a single sale.

These 10 startups are seizing the tremendous opportunities created by the shift to cloud computing and are reaping the benefits.

The lower price and ease of use should put the appliance right in the channel's wheelhouse, Jeff McNaught, vice president of Dell EMC Cloud Client Computing, tells CRN.

The Fireglass Threat Isolation Platform acts as an 'air gap' between potential attacks from web, email and documents, and the endpoint and web applications.

Solution providers say the restructuring – which organizes sales teams by industry focus and by product category – will bring more value to lines of business.