Bold, risky partnerships with rivals put the cloud provider in uncharted territory as it attempts to ride a multivendor trend, analysts and partners say. Rackspace's CTO says that's where the company always intended to be.

The cloud hosting provider is shifting focus to a cloud services model, leveraging the spirit of 'co-opetition' with other vendors.

CSC and CSRA executives rang the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell today as separate entities, culminating a flurry of transactions intended to reposition both businesses for stronger growth and profitability.

Amit Yoran dives into the insecurity of data and the infrastructure of IoT.

Share price losers outnumbered gainers by almost 2 to 1 among publicly traded solution providers and distributors.

Solution providers can leverage existing networking expertise to get into cloud services and help businesses support a hybrid cloud environment, partners say.

CRN's guide to the best deals (and the slickest tricks to look out for) on the biggest online shopping day of the year.

CEO Michael DeCesare says ForeScout has seen 'absolutely crazy growth,' reaching more than $100 million in annual revenue this year – an increase of 50 percent year over year. Driving that growth, he says, are its 154 active channel partners.

Mitel CEO Rich McBee discusses a merger between his unified communications company and videoconferencing company Polycom, Mitel's acquisition strategy and combining the mobility, enterprise and cloud space.

The Israeli-American startup's conversion engine provides continuous block-level replication, allowing transfer of live workloads to target clouds.

Workspace-as-a-Service provider nGenx speaks with CRN about six common myths of the booming WaaS market.

Support for Apache Spark engine provides Splice database with simultaneous transaction and analytics processing capabilities.

Industry titan Comtech Telecommunications plans to buy TeleCommunication Systems for $430.8 million, creating a solution provider giant with 2,000 employees serving the public safety sector and commerce.

Apple has nabbed motion capture startup Faceshift, fortifying its presence in the increasingly popular virtual reality sphere, according to TechCrunch.

Market analysts and a solution provider believe the activist investor could nudge the company to send more business to its channel partners.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman spoke with CRN about the new independent company's decision to make Microsoft Azure a ‘preferred’ public cloud provider, the relationship with Amazon Web Services, investor fallout and unrest around Dell's planned $67 billion acquisition of EMC, and Aruba's gains in the networking battle with Cisco.

The 10 most cash-rich solution providers decreased their holdings by 9.7 percent, to $12.98 billion, in the most recent quarter, with one channel partner falling out of the top 10 after spending $252 million of cash on an acquisition.

In other top stories from this week, Starwood hotels suffered a major security breach. Also, Dimension Data wrapped up a huge 2015.

The 10 most debt-laden solution providers increased their debt load by nearly 10 percent in the most recent quarter to $13.51 billion, with the debt for one channel partner ballooning by 608 percent after closing two acquisitions.

What are the top trends among partners in mobile device management? Here's a rundown from Roula Vrsic, vice president of global marketing at SOTI and head of the Altitude Partner Program for the enterprise mobility management vendor. (From ITBestOfBreed.com)