Microsoft On Track To Nearly Double Cloud Data Center Spend To $15 Billion
Microsoft plans to add to its 34 data centers around the globe by spending $15 billion on cloud data centers this year, up from $8 billion last year.
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CompTIA to Double Down on Education, Mentoring To Remedy IT Skills Gap
CompTIA plans to address the growing technology skills deficits by teaming up with educators to develop more technology curriculum and mentoring organizations to inspire the next generation of workers.
VMware CTO Wolf: Get Ready For New VMware NSX-Cisco Integration
Speaking at GreenPages' 2016 Cloudscape Summit, VMware VP and CTO Chris Wolf said he expects to see some thawing in the heated SDN battle between VMware and Cisco.
Solution Providers Are Tapping AppDev Opportunities To Get Ahead In Growing IoT Market
Solution providers are positioning themselves for success in the potentially lucrative Internet of Things market by bolstering their application development teams.
Growing Unitas Global Boosts Engineering Capabilities With Deal For AOS Cloud
Unitas Global, of Los Angeles, has added 28 engineers and dozens of customers in the Midwest after acquiring the cloud services arm of Alexander Open Systems.
DivvyCloud Elevates Cloud Infrastructure Automation And Management
DivvyCloud's solution enables users to automate, track, and regulate their multi-cloud infrastructures at the enterprise level.
16 Hot New Security Products Launched At Black Hat 2016
Take a look at 16 new products and solutions that security vendors rolled out in Las Vegas this week at the annual Black Hat Conference.
Samsung Unveils Galaxy Note7, A Productivity-Focused Device With Iris Scanning Authentication
Samsung's new version of its large-screened Note smartphone comes with new security options that could draw interest from mobile professionals.
Juniper To Buy Aurrion, Acquiring Technology That Will Boost The Efficiency Of Its Networking Products
Juniper Networks unveiled plans Tuesday to acquire Aurrion, with plans to offer its silicon-photonics technology as a way to reduce networking costs.
ARM Doubles Down On IoT Security, A Hot-Button Issue For Solution Providers
The problem with the industry's rush to the Internet of Things is that everything can be hacked, one solution provider tells CRN.
GTDC Chief: Distribution Sales Stabilizing In 2016 As Security Strength Offsets Storage, PC Struggles
After three consecutive quarters of year-over-year sales declines exceeding 2 percent, distributors saw their annual U.S. hardware and software sales grow by 0.1 percent in the second quarter.
CRN Exclusive: PaaS Powerhouse Pivotal Introduces First Channel Program Around Cloud Foundry
The Pivotal Ready Partner Program will encourage channel partners to contribute to the open-source Cloud Foundry project and jointly pursue enterprise engagements.
Salesforce To Acquire Quip, Adding Productivity, Collaboration Tools To Its Cloud Technology
With Quip, Salesforce will get cloud-based content and collaboration tools that provide much of the functionality of Microsoft Word or Google Docs to add to its industry-leading CRM platform.
Wheelhouse IT Dives Deeper Into Health Care, Buys Untangled Solutions
Managed service provider Wheelhouse IT is looking to boost its offerings for the health care industry by acquiring Untangled Solutions.
Nimble Storage Co-Founder: Dell-EMC VCE Reps Will Face 'Intense Pressure' To Sell Dell Servers Rather Than Cisco UCS
Nimble Storage co-founder Varun Mehta believes that an "intense pressure" for Dell-EMC sales reps to sell Dell servers over Cisco UCS will open the door for Nimble to be tied into more Cisco sales.
Partners Cheer Verizon's Fleetmatics Acquisition, Laser Focus On IoT
Verizon's channel partners are enthusiastic about the carrier's IoT strategy after it announced that it plans to acquire fleet and mobile management provider Fleetmatics Group for $2.4 billion.
CEO Dupler: GreenPages Is Reinventing Itself, Upping Its Application Game As Cloud Market Moves Into Overdrive
GreenPages, which was at the forefront of the channel shift to capture the cloud computing wave, is responding with a charge to scale up its application and software practices.
The Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders Of 2016
As part of the Top 100 Executives of 2016, CRN looks at 25 channel sales executives that really stood out as they worked to bring success to their partners.
Verizon Partners Concerned About Consumer-Focused Acquisitions
CRN's Gina Narcisi lays out what Verizon's $4.83 billion Yahoo acquisition could mean for the channel, coming after last year's acquisition of AOL.
7 Takeaways From Alphabet's Strong Earnings Call That Partners Need To Know
Google parent Alphabet turned in big second-quarter results last week as it beat analyst expectations and sent its stock soaring. Here are seven takeaways that go way beyond its stellar financials.
