The best apps to download for your new Android device this holiday season make you smarter, more efficient and help you kill time in style.

Doron Kempel, CEO of hyper-converged infrastructure startup SimpliVity, doesn't sound as though he's in a hurry to follow rival Nutanix's lead by filing for an initial public offering.

Salesforce agreed to a $360 million acquisition of the quote-to-cash software developer it had invested in earlier.

Dell partners in recent months have told CRN they welcome the divestitures, saying jettisoning some business units will create opportunities and help focus Dell after the EMC acquisition.

Did you get an iPhone 6s during the holidays? Spice up your new device with CRN's recommended 10 coolest apps for the iPhone 6s.

Looking for a last-minute holiday gift? These 10 tablet cases from the top-selling tablet brands of the year will get the job done.

To say it was a busy year in Hopkinton, Mass. would be a gross understatement. Here we look back at the 10 biggest EMC stories of the last 12 months.

It was a historic year for Dell, as the company dominated the headlines with its proposal to acquire EMC for $67 billion as well as its announcements of several high-profile executive appointments and major partnerships. Here are the 10 biggest Dell stories of the year.

AWS signed its first Criminal Justice Information Services agreement with a U.S. state, opening its cloud to California's many law enforcement agencies.

Partners said a document saying that the NSA exploited the flaws in Juniper's firewall OS to gain backdoor access to VPN connections has them worried.

Juniper partners tell CRN that more calls are coming in questioning the networking vendor's recent disclosure about its firewall operating system, while Cisco took a swipe its rival.

Oracle has settled complaints with the Federal Trade Commission over security issues with its Java Platform, a move security experts said should herald more full-disclosure initiatives from software companies.

Nutanix, darling of the hyper-converged infrastructure market, files for its long-awaited IPO and reveals details on revenue and net losses for the first time.

CRN has narrowed the vast smartphone cover field to 10 picks that will protect your phone while fitting your needs in style and personalization.

IT infrastructure monitoring platform provider LogicMonitor, citing a need to help managed services provider partners, has updated its integrations with service platform vendors Autotask and ConnectWise.

From the release of the iPad Pro to a blockbuster partnership with Cisco, Apple had a year of major innovation. Here are the top 10 biggest Apple stories of 2015.

Black Box Network Services CEO Michael McAndrew plans to resign after a rocky sales force restructuring and 62 percent drop in the company’s stock price during 2015.

Here are the 10 developments out of Mountain View, Calif. over the last year we think were of greatest interest to the channel.

It was once again a busy year for Microsoft, as the world's largest software vendor launched Windows 10 and made big splashes in hardware and cloud computing. Here are CRN's picks for the top 10 Microsoft stories of the year.

Oracle adds Docker container support to its Public Cloud portfolio with the StackEngine acquisition, and also reveals plans to build a cloud computing sales recruitment center in Texas.