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.

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

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

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

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

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.

John Teltsch, a 36-year Big Blue veteran, will take the helm of IBM's channel amid cloud and cognitive transformation.

The systems integrator's Bluewolf AI Now for Telecommunications leverages IBM Watson, Salesforce Einstein, and solutions from Vlocity and Matrixx

The new partnership includes newly integrated security products, including IBM QRadar, threat intelligence collaboration, and a new partnership around Cisco and the IBM Managed Security Services team.

Nutanix's losses are still piling up. But the company's hyper-converged infrastructure technology is finding its way on to more hardware platforms, including servers from HPE, Cisco, and IBM, and into more enterprise deployments.

Michele Stern, Managing Director at IBM, gave a keynote address during the Women Of The Channel Conference in Napa Valley, Calif. last week. She highlighted the importance of Generation Y women in technology, and why they are ready to lead.

With the planned introduction of IBM Power-based servers configured with Linux and Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure software stack, the two companies are betting customers will want to run mission-critical workloads with the simplicity of HCI.

A multi-year hyper-converged partnership has formed between the two vendors around data center hardware.

The distributor aims to enable partners around its extended line card, as TS partners now have access to Microsoft's cloud offerings and traditional Tech Data partners have access to Amazon and IBM's.

Ingram Micro told Cloud Summit 2017 attendees that it has invested heavily in sales and technical tools around Infrastructure-as-a-Service to help the channel expand its subpar footprint in the exploding market.

Ingram Micro has introduced a cloud offering that enables partners to deploy and manage Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM Bluemix from a single screen.

Despite growth in the company's "strategic imperatives" like cloud and cognitive computing, Q1 revenue fell 2.8 percent.

Partners of the telecom and cable giant will be able to sell private connections to various Big Blue cloud services through IBM Direct Link.

High levels of fragmentation, market-leading organic growth, and the presence of rich strategic acquirers like IBM and Accenture make the channel ripe for investment, said Clarivest Group and Pamlico Capital executives here at XChange Solution Provider 2017.