BlackBerry Flaunts Security Solutions In New SecuTablet Release
BlackBerry announced it has teamed up with IBM and Samsung to create SecuTablet, an ultrasecure version of the Galaxy Tab S 10.5.
IBM News From CRN
Ingram Micro CEO: Commoditization Makes Hosting Cloud 'Nonstarter'
Just a year after unveiling several new hosted services, Ingram Micro CEO Alain Monie said during the 2015 Cloud Summit that price erosion has made hosting cloud a "nonstarter."
Ingram Micro CEO: Commoditization Makes Hosting Cloud 'Non-Starter'
Just a year after unveiling several new hosted services, Ingram Micro CEO Alain Monie said during the 2015 Cloud Summit that price erosion has made hosting cloud a "nonstarter."
XChange: IBM Wants To Help Solution Providers Transform Their Business
Judy Smolski, vice president of cloud service providers at IBM, tells an XChange audience to consider adding a specialty practice to differentiate themselves.
IBM Partners See Growth In Big Blue's $4 Billion Cloud, Mobile, Analytics Investment
Big Blue partners cheered IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's $4 billion pledge to bolster its cloud, mobile and analytics business.
New Verizon Partnership, Cloud Expansion Yield Sales, Profit Boom for Ingram
An equipment and services agreement with Verizon dealers and strengthened relationships with cloud vendors drove double-digit revenue and profit growth for Ingram Micro.
Cognitive Scale's Cloud Technology Making IBM's Bluemix Platform Smarter
Cognitive Scale partnered this week with IBM to introduce its cognitive analytic solutions to the Bluemix platform. The self-learning technology can be used to build smarter apps for the health-care and retail sectors.
IBM Lays Out New Storage Strategy: Software-Defined, All-Flash
IBM's investments in the storage industry are paying off as the company unveils advanced all-flash storage arrays along with software-defined storage based on the company's XIV hardware.
Top 10 Take-Aways From IBM PartnerWorld 2015
CRN was live in Las Vegas for IBM's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference this week. Here are the top 10 biggest trends, news items and most buzzed-about topics.
Channel Beat: Chambers Rallies Cisco
In other top stories this week, the IBM PartnerWold conference wraps up. Also, D&H launched a new portfolio aimed at connected devices.
IBM's Rometty To Partners: Change Is Hard, Not Pretty
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty makes no apologies for huge changes internally at IBM and says its partner strategy will be better for it.
IBM Channel Chief: 10 Questions About Big Blue's New One Channel Team Organization
IBM channel chief Marc Dupaquier answers questions regarding IBM's new channel structure, along with growth goals, SoftLayer and biggest partner opportunities.
NexGen Cloud Conference Attendee Says The Conference 'Opened My Eyes'
Kevin Goodman of BlueBridge Networks shares what he learned at The Channel Company's first cloud-specific event last December, and why that led him to partner with IBM.
HP Enterprise Group Reorganization: Blades, Converged Infrastructure Businesses Combined
CRN has learned that HP will combine its server and its converged infrastructure business units into a single Converged Data Center Infrastructure organization to be headed by a longtime HP server executive.
IBM Hires Violin Memory's Herzog In Big Flash Storage Marketing Push
Eric Herzog has left Violin Memory to join IBM just as Big Blue gets ready for a new assault on the all-flash storage array market.
IBM Streamlines Executives Into 'One Channel Team'
IBM's new channel operations structure aims to deliver more simplicity and consistency to solution providers as it brings tighter channel alignment across the companies various business units.
What to Watch For: 2/9 - 2/13
Here's a rundown of the news and trends you can expect on CRN.com this week.
Winds Of Change At IBM: Will Partners Be Blown Away?
Thousands of IBM partners will gather for this week's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference to hear more about the company's extreme makeover and its impact on their business. Is the cloud transformation on track?
5 Insights From IBM's Partner Transformation Guru
Who is IBM's typical partner? You might be surprised how much today's IBM partner has changed, says IBM's Mike Gerentine, vice president of global partner marketing.
What To Watch For: Feb. 2 To Feb. 6
Here's a rundown of the news and trends you can expect on CRN.com this week.
