On Wednesday, IBM started sending notices, according to an employee Facebook page. Reuters reports sale of Lenovo shares coming.

Big Blue started sending notices Wednesday, according to an employee Facebook page, but the severity of personnel cuts is not yet clear.

Deals around security and health care in the weeks since the PartnerWorld conference shed light on Big Blue's cognitive transformation, and the implications for the channel.

VMware is teaming up with IBM to let customers move workloads back and forth between VMware private clouds and the IBM SoftLayer cloud, but what does this mean for vCloud Air?

IBM is expanding its security portfolio with the addition of Resilient Systems, a report said, though partners worried the move might make it more difficult to work with the incident response company.

IBM channel chief Marc Dupaquier spoke at this week's PartnerWorld Leadership Conference in Orlando about Big Blue's new partner program structure, cognitive computing and the maturation of the Watson platform.

Here are the biggest Internet of Things announcements this week for solution providers: from reports and partnerships to acquisitions and technology. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)

In other top stories this week, NetApp announced major layoffs. Also, IBM will restructure its partner program.

New systems technologies will enable IBM's partners to be the disruptors, not the disrupted. Big Blue officials tell attendees at partner conference.

See the 15 vendors who made Gartner's Web Conferencing Magic Quadrant as spending in the enterprise begins to ramp up.

Big Blue wants partners to focus on solutions, not products, as it introduces a four-tier channel structure with 44 new competencies.

Easy searching of storage objects for both on-premises and in the cloud can be done using Caringo Swarm 8 across object attributes or custom metadata.

Big Blue has become a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company, reshaping IBM's relationship with its channel

As it sits down with its channel partners this week, IBM is coming off a string of acquisitions that could mean more opportunities for its partners. The deals come at a critical time for the long-time vendor as it pushes toward becoming more of a “cognitive solutions and platform company.”

Ingram Micro purchases the Central and Eastern European unit of value-added distributor RRC that has expertise in networking, security and IT infrastructure.

Catalogic Software's ECX in-place copy data management solution now operates over IBM, EMC and NetApp environments.

Big Blue beefs up Bluemix cloud platform with new services that enable users of all levels to get working with large data sets and advanced analytic methods.

IBM's Raghavan Srinivas explained why the traditional approach to big data collection and analysis is wrong, and how big data will transform artificial intelligence.

In other top stories, Citrix has a new CEO. Also, 'unicorn' ForeScout secures major funding.

Big Blue's new Cloud Video Services unit is leveraging technologies from a spate of recent acquisitions