Avnet CEO Rick Hamada has stepped down after more than five years in the top slot, and the company has tapped former Lenovo CEO Bill Amelio to replace him on an interim basis.

Ed Harbour tells CRN the partners he speaks to understand that cognitive computing is a disruptive force – and a huge opportunity. The key is to simplify the science into ways people can consume and innovate around.

Forget science-fiction. Today's public cloud platforms have drastically lowered the cost of entry for machine learning, enabling solution providers to introduce real-world applications for consumption at far greater scale.

Ed Walsh, who led marketing and strategy for IBM storage for three years, has been rehired as the general manager of IBM's storage business.

Where's the channel play in Cisco and IBM's new Internet of Things partnership? Mike Flannagan, Cisco's data and analytics leader, explains how partners can capitalize.

The combined company becomes a worldwide provider of services helping customers of older IBM i servers keep their applications running, modernize those applications, and migrate them when needed.

The English translation of the original Japanese-language report with a headline that says Hitachi is 'freezing' its high-end storage business is great fodder for competitors, but does not reflect the real changes going on throughout the entire storage industry, HDS execs said.

IBM executive Sandy Carter offers five small-scale marketing activities that can have a big growth impact at companies of all sizes.

Synergy Research compiled first-quarter financials for a multi-tiered snapshot of the rapidly evolving market.

IBM introduced new high-performance all-flash storage arrays targeting multitenant cloud environments and mainframes, and said it will shortly introduce a new solution specifically for big data and scale-out NAS environments.

Apple has been stepping up purchases of IBM software and hardware, a development that shows how the vendors' 2014 mobile enterprise partnership is branching out into new areas.

IBM's chief data officer gives a real-life scenario in which IBM's acquisition of The Weather Company saved a customer tens of millions of dollars.

The epic transformation of the world's most-storied technology company continues. Earnings slightly beat guidance, but IBM shares again slip after Q1 financials.

IBM is investing in building strategic partnerships in the analytics space and empowering chief data officers.

Bluewolf CEO Eric Berridge and IBM Interactive Experience Global Leader Paul Papas sound off on what brought the two companies together, the future of the Bluewolf brand and where Bluewolf is looking to expand.

IBM is continuing its services acquisition spree, saying Thursday that it plans to acquire Salesforce.com solution provider superstar Bluewolf for an undisclosed amount.

Synnex is laying off at least 868 customer care workers -- about 1 percent of its workforce -- as its closes three U.S. delivery centers and offshores the work to lower-cost locations.

Tech Data has nabbed a 32-year IBM stalwart as its first-ever chief operating officer, and brought back a familiar face to lead its global business development efforts.

Sirius Computer Solutions employed its new private equity backing to purchase the U.S. government solution provider focused on network security technology.

Big Blue paid an undisclosed sum for the channel consultancy, which has carved out a niche bringing Microsoft Dynamics CRM to government clients in the U.K.