Bob Cagnazzi talks to CRN about 2015's surge in M&A consolidation and why the solution provider acquisition spree won't be slowing down any next year.

Presidio is expected to make its second acquisition in less than a month by purchasing Netech Corp., a fast-growing networking VAR with SMB and education expertise.

ShoreTel's purchase of communications specialist Corvisa will increase revenue opportunities for the channel and drive innovation.

Wireless sales is a relatively untapped area that could give solution providers another recurring revenue opportunity, say partners in the know.

NetApp CEO George Kurian tells investors the vendor's $870 million acquisition of Solidfire is expected to bring in new types of customers that focus on DevOps and cloud software development.

2015 may have been Cisco's most transformative year in decades. Here's a rundown of the 10 biggest stories that came out of the networking leader this year.

Following the split of Hewlett-Packard into two companies, HP Inc. and CEO Don Weisler made waves with 3-D printing plans, a Windows 10 tablet and the Elite X2. Here are the top 10 HP Inc. stories of the year.

This will be remembered as the year that the company that gave birth to Silicon Valley, Hewlett Packard, split into independent Fortune 50 companies: $55 billion HP Inc. focused on PCs and printing and $53 billion Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Here are the top 10 Hewlett Packard Enterprise stories of the year.

With the channel partner under its roof, Pivotal is in a stronger position to hold back competitors of the popular open-source technology it created.

Just about a week before it was expected to close its sale of Veritas, Symantec said Monday that it would be pushing back the anticipated close date to Jan. 29.

Microsoft has acquired Talko, a mobile app for on-the-go business communications, in order to bolster its Skype For Business services within Office 365, the company announced Monday.

Some technology giants are always involved in controversy, and this year is no exception. Here are the 10 most controversial companies of 2015.

As Juniper Networks stock took a hit Monday, channel partners are optimistic their Juniper sales won't be affected after the company revealed a major security vulnerability in some of its products last week.

NetApp plans to take the wraps off its $1.2 billion acquisition of flash storage array vendor SolidFire, a move that will add highly regarded technology to its portfolio.

In an interview with CRN, Check Point Software Technologies President Amnon Bar-Lev outlined the security vendor's transition in recent months, and why he said that makes it more competitive than ever.

Here's the year-end list no one wants to make – CRN's the biggest, most damaging cloud outages of the last year.

CACI has reportedly emerged as the frontrunner among companies looking to acquire Lochkeed Martin's government IT business. Should it succeed, CACI would become the leading solution provider for the public sector.

Businesses didn't get a break in 2015 from a continued onslaught of data breaches. Take a look at the 10 biggest security incidents of the year.

Take a look at some of the biggest data center news of the past year, including the rise of the hyper-converged market, EMC's Virtustream acquisition and HP's split in two.

Juniper Thursday said it had discovered a major vulnerability in its firewall OS that could allow hackers to decrypt VPN connections, with one solution provider saying it could have widespread industry implications.