Twenty-six of the 42 of the technology companies on our watch list recorded gains in the price of their publicly traded shares in the first half of 2017. Take a look at who was up and who was down.

The distributor believes its focus on the actual product life-cycle management piece will differentiate its Device-as-a-Service practice from similar offerings launched earlier this year by its competitors.

Former Tech Data CEO Steve Raymund will help ConnectWise think through the pros and cons associated with an initial public offering, taking venture capital or borrowing from banks as it looks to grow.

Western Digital expects new high-capacity drives featuring microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology to take spinning hard disk technology into the next decade. With capacities of up to 80 TBs per drive, these disks are said to have a significant cost-per-terabyte advantage over flash storage.

Jason Stein's appointment to vice president of all sales for North America comes as Kaspersky faces increasing pressure regarding its alleged connections to the Russian government.

The co-founder and executive vice president tells CRN that NetApp's unique position in managing data across on-premises and public and private cloud environments would make it hard to acquire the company without destroying its value.

Arif Kareem, top executive at the network performance and data analytics company, talks to CRN about competition, channel strategy, and a big investment in artificial intelligence.

The Dell Technologies CEO spoke in New York as his company launched a new division focused on IoT solutions.

The Dell Technologies CEO spoke about his company's vision for seizing Internet of Things and edge computing opportunities.

Here's a look at the executives who are making their presence known at Tech Data following the distributor's acquisition of Avnet.

Providing reassurance and sustaining moral among employees following an acquisition can be a tall order for human resources departments looking to achieve a painless workforce integration.

Wrapping up The Channel Company's 2017 Best of Breed conference Tuesday evening, Dupler noted that the IT "confusion and complexity" the channel is navigating underscores just how vital IT has become to the success of all businesses.

Deierlein, who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom and received a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, emphasized the importance of communication, decisiveness and resilience in a keynote at the 2017 Best of Breed conference.

New executives from GE Digital, IBM Watson and Ixia are bringing their experience to help Hitachi Vantara deliver IT and industrial expertise to market via its new Lumada IoT appliance.

The company is expanding from its core software for enterprises to offer a six products in total, targeting automation across both IT and application development.

Comport Healthcare Solutions President Jack Margossian says Aruba's software has completely changed the networking landscape and put his company ahead of a pack of "me-too" legacy networking competitors.

In a Q&A session on the main stage of this week's 2017 Best of Breed Conference, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger fielded questions on the company's new multi-cloud strategy, partnerships with rivals and the 'stupid idea' that you can run containers on bare-metal servers.

"This is not just an Office 365 story," said Tech Data COO Rich Hume. "All of the software providers in our value portfolio are also going through this journey and adding Software-as-a-Service capabilities."

"Seventy-one percent of all breaches start from an endpoint," said HP Director of U.S. Commercial Print John Tate to an audience of IT solution providers at the Best of Breed (BoB) conference in Atlanta.

The CEO has taken the virtualization leader into a world in which "tech is breaking out of tech," rival Microsoft is a partner and "co-opetition" rules the day.