REAN Cloud, an AWS premier partner, lost the lion's share of a nearly $1 billion Pentagon cloud contract after Oracle and other industry powerhouses challenged the contract based on REAN Cloud's close relationship with AWS.

Dell Technologies took the wraps off several data center product enhancements -- including new line of high-performance storage systems, new PowerEdge servers and enhancements to its fast-growing VxRack and VxRail hyper-convergence solutions -- during the Dell Technologies World conference.

Dell is launching refreshed Wyse hardware aimed at offering strong performance and a high degree of configurability.

The new PowerMax line with real-time machine learning, along with upgraded software and a a dramatically lower entry level price point on the XtremIO X2 all flash arrays.

Dell unveiled its new R840 and R940xa PowerEdge servers at Dell Technologies World 2018 on Tuesday with improved CPU to GPU ratios and significantly improved response times for high performance database applications.

The CRN editorial team has created the sixth annual Big Data 100, identifying vendors that have demonstrated an ability to innovate in bringing to market products and services that help business work with big data.

The acquisition of the Portland, Maine security solution provider is Tyler Technologies' second acquisition this month, and seventh acquisition in three years.

Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell says his company's position as the largest IT infrastructure player in the world gives it an especially advantageous position in leading-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and 5G.

The CRN Big Data 100 list includes vendors of big data analytics software and business intelligence software.

DeBell is looking to grow the channel business for crowdsourced security testing provider Bugcrowd from less than 25 partners globally to accounting for between 80 percent and 90 percent of global revenue.

J.C. Collins, previously responsible for Salesforce's channel strategy, takes over partner programs from Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh, who now leads efforts focused on core industries

Diamond Lauffin, a storage industry channel guru, is emphasizing high partner margins on low-priced, high-performance Eco-Flash all-flash storage technology from Storbyte.

VMware launched new NSX-based initiatives at Dell Technologies World on Tuesday including NSX Cloud with Microsoft Azure.

Dell Technologies has unleashed ten new programs, incentives and competencies aimed at driving partner sales growth including a new framework to help partners sell the entire Dell Technologies portfolio.

The buyer of a $278 million piece of Conduent's HR business is H.I.G. Capital, a Miami-based global private equity company that last July purchased U.S. government solutions provider NCI.

"By software-defining compute, storage, networking and security – it enables automation and improves agility. But this is no way the exclusive domain of the public cloud," said Dell Technologies chairman and CEO Michael Dell.

The judge agreed with Xerox investor Darwin Deason to temporarily put on hold the merger to give investors more time to nominate new members to the board of directors because of information that came to light only after the merger was announced.

New capabilities in Dremio 2.0 bolster the software's ability to link business intelligence tools with a wide array of disparate data sources.

The Dell EMC Ready Stack program provides a simplified way for partners to build converged infrastructure stacks based on Dell EMC and VMware data center technologies.

The new Dell Technologies Advantage framework provides partners with tools and incentives to help them sell solutions across all seven Dell Technologies brands: Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, SecureWorks, Pivotal, RSA and Virtustream.