Intel says in a blog post that it is set to defend its x86 instruction set architecture as competitor Qualcomm says its will provide x86 emulation on Microsoft's Windows 10 ARM-based PCs.

Nokia confirms 170 layoffs in Finland Friday as part of the cost-savings plan it laid out following its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent in 2015.

HTC Global Ventures completes its acquisition of solution provider Ciber Thursday, capping off a 43-year run for the onetime international IT services giant.

WestconGroup CEO Dolph Westerbos speaks with CRN on why Synnex's $830 million purchase appealed to key vendors, how Westcon Americas will be organized under Synnex, and what he expects to happen to Synnex's specialty distribution business.

Telecom industry veteran and current CEO of TPx Communications Richard Jalkut discusses the confusion around incumbent carriers' growth strategies, the need for partners to move to managed services, and getting more VARs into the telecom services business.

Half of master agent PlanetOne's revenues are coming from cloud sales, matching connectivity revenues for the first time. Why? Partners are reaching beyond connectivity and selling more complete solutions, said PlanetOne CEO Ted Schuman.

Microsoft's Hexadite acquisition builds on a growing security push at the company, including a $1 billion commitment to security by CEO Satya Nadella.

Commvault channel chief Ralph Nimergood tells CRN the company is encouraging partners to get on board with consumption-based sales models as customers accelerate their move to the cloud.

Obsidian Security will look to target security challenges posed by an expanding enterprise environment, one of its three founders says.

Users of Amazon Drive will be able to store up to 5 GBs free of charge, but will pay beyond that capacity, but Amazon Prime members will still have unlimited photo storage.

Microsoft said the startup's technology will be integrated into threat detection capabilities for Windows 10 users.

CFO Tom Sweet said the company anticipates rising costs as a result of ongoing memory and SSD shortages to persist for the remainder of the year.

From gobbling up more fiber and sinking large investments into their networks to ready themselves for 5G, to executive moves, CRN rounds up six newsworthy items that happened in the telecom industry last month that solution providers should know about.

The Channel Company's Women of the Channel West event, held last month at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, Calif., was the place to be for female channel and IT leaders. If you were unable to make it, here's what you missed.

The network security market overall continued to grow in the first quarter, according to NPD Group. Take a look at which companies were the best-selling brands from January through March.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Financial Services unit is powering a partner cloud services business model transformation revolution with a wide array of pay-as-you-go subscription offerings.

Less than six months after its inception, the Florida-based company is off and running with two key acquisitions. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

Led by CEO Meg Whitman, HPE already has already acquired companies this year hat are driving significant sales growth for partners.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman says the high cost of getting out of public clouds, particularly Amazon Web Services, is slowing the move to public cloud and boosting hybrid IT.

Jon Fraser of Online Business Systems discusses security and the importance of managing company data systems. His company uses BMC Software's technologies to help automate the process of preventing and handling attacks.