Apple and IBM shook up the tech world Tuesday after announcing a partnership that will bring iOS devices deep into the enterprise. Here are 10 keys to the deal.

As the Apple and IBM partnership announcement shakes up the enterprise market, Aziz Virani, President of Avanade, No. 34 on CRN's SP500 list, said that the news doesn't mean partners should count Microsoft out of the running for enterprise BYOD just yet.

Apple and IBM announced a historic partnership yesterday afternoon that has potential to reshape the mobile enterprise space. As beneficial as the deal is on paper for both of the tech giants, their partners are concerned that no mention was made of the channel in the announcement. Will the offerings be made through the channel?

IBM is partnering with Apple to bring iOS devices, such as the iPad and iPhone, deep into the enterprise with programs for developing industry-specific applications. The partnership also brings IBM and Apple cloud-based and on-premise services to enterprise customers.

The move to focus on next-generation chips and what the company calls a desire to 'push the limits' of chip technology follows chatter that cropped up earlier in the year that IBM was shopping its semiconductor factories in New York and Vermont.

Antonio Neri, senior vice president and general manager for HP Servers and HP Networking, spoke with CRN about the next step in an aggressive HP campaign in which it is calling out IBM's 'uncertain x86 server future. Here are 10 reasons he says it's working.

Garnter predicts tablets will overtake PCs next year. CRN looks at the history of tablets, back to the 1980s.

IBM SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby says he's not interested in getting involved with the cloud pricing war that Microsoft, Google and Amazon are fighting.

In its first Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems report, Gartner included all the top vendors and coalitions in the converged infrastructure market except for the VSPEX reference architecture, which it said included too many vendor options.

IBM's moves are all part of a concerted effort to make storage one of its biggest new lines of business and one of the biggest new opportunities for channel partners.

IBM and its channel partners hope building an open-source business around IBM's Power-based server technology will help shore up IBM's declining hardware sales.

IBM partners say the new Power8 systems will save customers on hardware, server sprawl and software licensing.

First quarter 2014 storage sales fell significantly compared to last year despite a nearly 20-percent growth in total capacity shipped, according to the latest IDC quarterly report.

IBM and Lenovo are seeking an extension from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review the proposed sale of IBM's x86 server business.

HP CEO Meg Whitman says HP has 600 wins over IBM in the last four months with the pipeline up dramatically as a result of IBM's yet-to-be-finalized sales of its x86 server business to Lenovo.

Bringing enterprise technology to SMBs, Tech Data has introduced the Integrated Data Protection Solution, based on brand-new IBM infrastructure and software technology.

IBM told CRN it is taking new orders for its N-series storage solutions, stemming from IBM's OEM relationship with NetApp, for only 90 more days, but will support those solutions through 2018.

Adalio Sanchez, general manager of IBM's System x business, is the key executive on the front line of IBM's $2.3 billion sale of its x86 server business to Lenovo. He discusses that deal and much more with CRN.

IBM introduces new x86 hardware and storage solutions at Edge 2014 as it sets its sights on IT infrastructure and cloud growth.

In an interview with CNBC Tuesday, IBM Chairman and CEO Ginni Rometty says IBM's SoftLayer public cloud is in a far different market than the public cloud from Amazon Web Services.