Solution providers looking to expand should double down on cloud, analytics and security and shift resources away from areas where they don't have a competitive advantage. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)
Cleversafe object storage technology, used by several IBM technology partners and competitors, is expected to complement IBM's existing open-source OpenStack Swift object storage offering.
U.S.-based Cisco partners say the networking giant's new partnership with China-based Inspur won't benefit the channel as more and more IT companies begin to jostle to get a piece of the world's second biggest economy.
The storage startup, founded by ex-EMC and ex-IBM storage expert Moshe Yanai, also unveiled a new entry-level configuration that provides the same capabilities as its flagship model at the same per-GB price point.
Perficient has purchased a $10 million, 30-employee IBM analytics firm to bolster its presence in the Southeastern U.S. and better support financial management solutions.
Folding IBM's System x practice into Lenovo's fast-paced, cost-conscious environment has proven difficult, Lenovo's Gerry Smith said at the 2015 GTDC Summit Wednesday.
While overall storage revenue for the second quarter of 2015 rose 2.1 percent over the same period last year, nearly all the top enterprise storage vendors took a beating, according to the latest numbers from market research firm IDC.
IBM mainstay Sirius Computer Solutions plans to double down on mergers and acquisitions after a planned injection of capital from private equity giant Kelso & Co.
CRN gets to the bottom of the channel opportunity around Internet of Things with exclusive research that shows just how big a piece of the IoT pie solution providers think they can grab.
There's no doubt that interest in the Internet of Things is rising, but some key hurdles still need to be overcome before the technology can hit the mainstream.
Several product categories have new winners in CRN's 2015 Annual Report Card, with a security vendor emerging as one of the biggest victors. See how solution providers graded their vendor partners on product innovation, support and partnership.
The cutting-edge technology IBM is striving to develop is a moonshot that could revolutionize medicine, and create vast new opportunities for the channel.
No one's going to catch Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google, which now control more than half the cloud infrastructure services market, says Synergy Research.
Big Blue shares sagged on mixed financial results as the storied company pushes to 'aggressively and decisively' reinvent itself, CFO Martin Schroeter told investors in the earnings call.
The chip, which will deliver four times the compute power available today, will be used to power the Watson supercomputer, cloud data centers and mainframes, says IBM.
