Solution providers were champing at the bit in October to get a larger footprint in cloud, with five of the 16 acquired solution providers last month specializing in cloud services, hosting or communications.

Focusing on security as a feature of IoT also gives manufacturers and service providers an opportunity for market differentiation, according to the agency.

Through the partnership, the nonprofit founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk will be using a new Azure instance geared for powering artificially intelligent workloads.

The acquisition is the second for Samsung this week.

Big data software developer also names new chief product officer to oversee the company's product strategy and engineering.

With the acquisition, Virtual Instruments gets a huge boost in its ability to monitor infrastructure performance in traditional data centers and new enterprise infrastructures, including the cloud.

The CRN Test Center rounds up the big Microsoft announcements you might have missed, including releases in mobile, security and cloud computing.

Mirum's Mitch Joel spoke at the HubSpot Inbound conference about the employment opportunities that could be created by mainstream virtual reality adoption.

The developer's new HyperCloud takes advantage of the cloud for flexible deployment and pay-as-you-go capabilities for building hyper-converged infrastructure.

Avnet launches a managed security service, Recon, that aims to boost partner margins and make solution providers stickier with end users in the health-care and retail verticals.

Cyberbit makes its next big channel push as it pitches partners on its technology, which hits on the hot security areas of endpoint detection and response, security orchestration and automation.

At its Minds and Machines conference this week in San Francisco, GE made a number of moves that expands opportunities for its partners in the Industrial IoT space.

ISVs will be able to use GE Digital's Predix platform as the building block for new applications and to enhance industrial operations components.

The move toward cloud and software-defined technology could result in significant growth for the Extreme Scale Infrastructure unit, and Jyeh Gan tells CRN how Dell EMC intends to lean heavily on partners to help those customers along the way.

The CRN Test Center tries out this quirky new 2-in-1 device.

Application delivery specialist F5 Networks unveiled several new solutions including its flexible, new BIG-IP hardware platform dubbed iSeries.

Partners say the acquisition could add more analytics capabilities and threat intelligence to Symantec's offerings.

With 412M accounts reportedly at risk, the Friend Finder data breach echoes the 2015 Ashley Madison hack. Partners said the incident shows the need for a customer "wake-up call" about the security of sites and services that store personal data.

GE Digital announced Monday it has acquired cloud-based field service management company ServiceMax in a $915 million deal.

Executives from HP, Sungard and Fortinet detail how their companies have adjusted in response to the growth of the new IT supply chain model.