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Sources: Data Center Goliath Sirius In Negotiations To Acquire $1B Security Powerhouse Forsythe

August 18, 2017, 9:36 am EDT

Sirius's acquisition of Forsythe would create a 3,000-employee, $3.2 billion solution provider giant with expertise in everything from data center, hosting and security to lines of business, cloud and connectivity.

Channel Legend Vitagliano Thanks Mentors, Family In Heartfelt IT Hall Of Fame Induction Speech

August 16, 2017, 4:50 pm EDT

With his peers and family in attendance for the ceremony at The Channel Company's XChange 2017 conference in Orlando, Fla., Vitagliano recounted a prosperous career in the IT channel.

Docker Delivers Brand New Enterprise Edition

August 16, 2017, 9:00 am EDT

The latest release of the subscription container platform extends orchestration to IBM mainframes while adding governance and automation features.

Cloud Infrastructure Wars: Top 4 Vendors Grab Bigger Slice Of Growing Pie

August 8, 2017, 12:02 pm EDT

As the market for cloud infrastructure services continues to grow at a brisk pace, the top four providers are increasing their hold on the business but still leaving room for their smaller peers to compete.

IBM Sues To Stop Former CIO From Taking Leadership Position At AWS

August 7, 2017, 7:40 pm EDT

Jeff Smith would reveal to Big Blue's rival closely guarded secrets about IBM's "faster, more secure and less expensive" next-generation cloud technologies, IBM alleges in its lawsuit.

Ghilardi Is Out As Lenovo North America President

August 2, 2017, 11:29 am EDT

Lenovo did not disclose the reason for the executive's sudden departure; Enterprise Business Segment general manager Christian Teismann named interim head of the North America business.

Vision Solutions Acquires Enforcive, Plans Strong Security Play Based On IBM Power-Based Servers

July 24, 2017, 7:37 pm EDT

The acquisition of Enforcive, coming after Vision Solutions sold Double-Take to Carbonite, cements Vision's focus on the IBM iSeries and AIX platforms, but also gives its channel partners an entry to the x86 security business.

IBM Reports Modest But Organic Gains Across Cloud And Other 'Strategic Imperatives' As Revenue Again Declines

July 18, 2017, 7:49 pm EDT

On the company's earnings call, CFO Martin Schroeter says IBM has now absorbed its many recent acquisitions -- but is 'not out of the acquisition business.'

Channel Icon Frank Vitagliano To Be Inducted Into IT Hall Of Fame

July 10, 2017, 2:30 pm EDT

Vitagliano, a channel legend and current CEO of Computex, will accept the honor at The Channel Company's XChange 2017 conference being held next month in Orlando, Fla.

NetApp, Cisco Integrate SolidFire All-Flash Storage With UCS Servers In New FlexPod SF

June 27, 2017, 9:17 am EDT

The converged infrastructure offering marries the policy automation capability of SolidFire's Element operating system to Cisco's UCS servers and networking to target the building of modern cloud and container-based applications.

Partners Troubled By Report That Russian Government Vets Vendor Source Code

June 23, 2017, 4:33 pm EDT

Partners said they were concerned over a report Friday that said major security vendors – including Cisco, IBM, Germany SAP, McAfee, and HPE- handed over source code to Russian authorities for review.

Here's Who Made Gartner's Inaugural List Of The Top 5 IT Vendors

June 21, 2017, 11:13 am EDT

The research firm, which ranked 100 vendors by how much spend they took in across IT and component market segments, says business needs are shifting to digital business as the driver of IT purchasing.

The Chosen Few: A Look At 10 Tech CEOs Meeting With President Trump

June 19, 2017, 1:20 pm EDT

The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and other companies will meet with the president to discuss using technology to make the government more efficient.

Hortonworks Expands Streaming Data Capabilities With New DataFlow Release

June 16, 2017, 9:40 am EDT

IBM extends its alliance with Hortonworks and will offer the Hortonworks Data Platform as its distribution of the Hadoop big data platform.

Dorothy Copeland, IBM's New North America Channel Leader, Brings Unique Experience From AWS

June 14, 2017, 4:56 pm EDT

Copeland, who was at the forefront of developing AWS's channel, fills a position at IBM vacated by Michele Stern in February.

5 Companies That Had A Rough Week

June 9, 2017, 5:03 pm EDT

For the week ending June 9, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

New IBM Channel Chief Teltsch On The Opportunity In Cognitive Transformation, What's Next For IBM's Partner Program And The Challenges Ahead

June 7, 2017, 1:15 pm EDT

John Teltsch, who has spent 36 years working at IBM across divisions and geographies, will be taking the reins from outgoing channel director Marc Dupaquier at the end of June.

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