For the week ending March 30, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

Johnny Earle, the CEO of Johnny Cupcakes, shares his ingenious digital marketing strategy that has people lining up outside his store and how he accomplished this with little to no marketing budget.

Telecom agent partners who have participated in Intelisys' two-year-old cloud training program, Super9, is churning out success graduates who are landing large cloud deals, all thanks to the intensive training and education, partners told CRN.

For the week ending March 30, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

Dennis Polk, who just a few months ago took over as president and CEO of Synnex, reported year-over-year revenue and profit growth, but said the company was facing some margin headwinds in an extremely competitive environment.

An independent researcher discovered the most critical flaw allowing attackers to exploit client software for rapidly standing up network devices.

Microsoft is aiming to better position itself for evolving technology areas with the rollout of numerous executive changes, including the departure of a 21-year Microsoft veteran.

Burton has played big roles at Dell and EMC not only in marketing but in M&A and investment and is known as a technology whiz as well.

After hard-fought battles for the Cloud and Software crowns, we now know which executives will face off in the Semifinal round of CRN's 2018 Channel Madness Tournament.

The CRN Test Center finds strong battery life and portability on the sixth-generation model of the X1 Carbon.

In the past month, Samsung has debuted the channel-exclusive Galaxy Tab Active2 along with an Enterprise Edition of the Galaxy S9 that's sold by channel partners.

Terry Myerson will be leaving Microsoft after 21 years, while Nadella reveals a number of other executive changes at the company.

A new research report finds that the number of Internet of Things-related patent filings has soared in the past few years, reaching 3,234 in 2016.

HPE Aruba President Keerti Melkote speaks with CRN about the launch of HPE Aruba's NetInsight analytics solution, the acquisition of Cape Networks, and its planned midyear push into the SD-WAN market.

The HP exec worked closely with partners to boost their sales capabilities.

Last week, the virtualization leaded added an AI-powered service to protect devices in the field. The startup bolsters those efforts with advanced threat detection trained through machine learning.

FourV's technology will allow MSSPs to gather a complete snapshot of what's happening on the end user's system and match it up against a risk framework or compliance requirements such as PCI.

Plantronics is less concerned with competing against UC market leaders Cisco and Microsoft, and is more focused on acquiring Polycom to encourage better interoperability across the entire UC and collaboration market, the communications equipment provider told CRN.

Through the new SAP Qualified Partner-Packaged Solution initiative, SAP hopes to accelerate cloud software sales to small and mid-size business customers.

From Foxconn controversies to Linksys' channel surge, here are eight things you need to know about the Foxconn-Belkin acquisition.