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CenturyLink announced its post-Level 3 leadership team that will head up the new company under CEO Glen Post. The revamped team includes CenturyLink veterans, as well as two Level 3 executives.

From serious messages to serious clowning around, Lenovo's Accelerate partner conference was a wild ride. Here are 10 scenes from the event.

A one-time 'tax holiday' could spark a repatriation of overseas cash by companies such as Apple and Microsoft.

Samsung and Magellan are debuting a new offering that will help modernize the trucking industry and create opportunities for solution providers.

CTP's cloud management services illustrate a trend in which innovative solution providers are converting their experience and intellectual property into software products.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Alphabet's cloud business enjoyed the highest growth in headcount and capital expense of all Alphabet's businesses and is providing the kind of 'heavy lifting' needed to help meet enterprise IT requirements.

It's been a tumultuous couple of years for Lenovo, but Ghilardi says his executive team is stable and the company's strategies around the data center and mobility have been refocused and simplified.

ShoreTel has seen unprecedented growth through its master agent and sub-agent community for sales of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). To keep its focus on cloud-based solutions, the company is using distributors to handle its premises-based products in North America.

In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, Republican Committee Chairman Lamar Smith asked for criminal charges against the solution provider CEO, alleging he failed to produce documents, made false statements and obstructed an investigation.

Solution providers said they'd add salespeople and redouble investment in cutting-edge software and services if the Trump administration's business tax reform succeeds.

The world's largest cloud expanded its business by 43 percent year-over-year. Amazon's CFO promised even more acceleration in the pace of cloud innovation

PCM will launch a new United Kingdom and European practice Monday and has tapped Donavan Hutchinson - the man who helped bring CDW into Europe - to spearhead its operations.

Cloud products such as Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 saw strong showings even as Surface device sales slipped.

A little more than a year after Fortinet revamped its sales structure in the region, company executives said the security vendor's Q1 growth in North America validates the company's reorganization after many months that were slow to show progress.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said during a first-quarter earnings call that the company is "reaching milestones in transforming from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of connected devices."

Check Point Software Technologies top executives said on its Q1 earnings call that they don't expect to hit the same sales challenges that primary competitor Palo Alto Networks saw last quarter.

Partners want to hear more about Intel's strategy during its 2017 first quarter earnings call - almost a year after announcing wide-scale restructuring efforts.

Check Point Software Technologies top executives said on its Q1 earnings call that they don't expect to hit the same sales challenges that primary competitor Palo Alto Networks saw last quarter.

Alan Marc Smith has departed as CEO of $1 billion public sector VAR DLT Solutions two years after taking the top job, the company confirmed Thursday.