Solution providers will have to find ways to align their businesses with a couple of key public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure as those companies extend their reach into ever more markets, or risk being left behind.

A less restrictive regulatory environment and increased infrastructure spending under president-elect Donald Trump will spur growth across vertical markets, according to a panel of solution providers.

Microsoft's William Lewallen said the channel is crucial to Microsoft's new direction in cloud, and he sees opportunity for partners.

Unisys hires former LiveOps CMO Ann Sung Rucksthul to expand new awareness campaign of what the solution provider has to offer.

One of Nutanix's top executives said Cisco, HPE and VMware cannot provide a best-in-class experience for their hyper-converged products since they don't own the entire software stack.

The channel saw massive business model transformation in 2016, with top vendors unloading legacy IT outsourcing units to focus on their core business, and broadline players buying their way into the cloud, telecom, and hyper-converged infrastructure.

Adar, a former MSP itself, wants to make it easier for MSP partners to work with its Nerdio platform for automated deployment and support of IT services for small businesses.

Accenture appoints former Fidlelis cybersecurity CSO Justin Harvey to head the company’s new incident response practice.

Dell EMC's Chad Sakac believes channel partners can achieve profits and growth as the market for engineered systems and platforms takes hold but, like vendors, solution providers will have to undergo some difficult changes to be successful.

Consolidated Communications, No. 44 on the 2016 CRN Solution Provider 500, says the deal will create a network that extends across 24 states and add more than 3,000 lit buildings.

Startups focused on the Internet of Things and cybersecurity were among those that raised funding in November.

For this year's Products of the Year, CRN editors selected five finalists among 17 technology categories and then asked solution providers to rate the products to determine a winner. After a survey that netted more than 5,000 responses, here are the hot products that stood out from the rest in 2016.

Startups focused on the Internet of Things and cybersecurity were among those that raised funding in November.

The CRN Test Center finds serious speed, portability and battery life with the updated XPS 13.

For this year's Products of the Year, CRN editors selected five finalists among 17 technology categories and then asked solution providers to rate the products to determine a winner. After a survey that netted more than 5,000 responses, here are the hot products that stood out from the rest in 2016.

Apple, Samsung, Google and LG are among the companies offering hot smartphones this season.

Eric O'Neill, who was key in capturing notorious Russian spy Robert Hanssen, says the DNC was warned of a potential Russia cyberattack by the FBI and failed to protect itself.

Google established itself as an enterprise player in 2016 by notching big wins and expanding its partner footprint. Here are the 10 biggest Google stories of the year.

For the week ending Dec. 2, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

The cloud market continued its booming growth in 2016, with AWS and Google leading the charge. Here are the 10 biggest cloud stories of the past year.