Partners are bullish on the new Dell Technologies Advantage framework, which will enable them to spend less time on 'doing homework' around certification requirements and more time 'in front of customers.'

Tyler Technologies' acquisition of Sage Data Security follows a five-year courtship, and will bring the robust security offerings of Sage to the 15,000 public sector clients that Tyler has across the country.

Among the things solution providers need to know: What would network convergence between the two companies look like? And how would losing one wireless player in the market impact the channel?

VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled the Virtual Cloud Network Tuesday or, as he put it, the future of networking.

Dell Technologies executive Jeff Clarke discusses the five key trends that will dictate the future of the IT industry as well as the strategies Dell is developing to capitalize on the opportunities.

As the company looks to grow its product portfolio, Xplore is investing in partners by offering benefits such as rebates and MDF.

Security leaders call for action as the number of cybercrimes continue to rise.

Businesses globally are eager to base their operations on the efficiencies and insights promised by the move to 'software-defined' technologies and artificial intelligence, but are deeply uncertain about whether that promise will ever be realized, Dell Technologies CMO Allison Dew said.

CloudBlue, a new division of Ingram Micro, was developed with Microsoft Azure to provide a cloud base on which large telcos, MSPs, and even other distributors can build turnkey cloud commerce platforms.

"We have serious concerns about the announced settlement and we intend to file our objections with the Court shortly," Fujifilm said in a statement.

Alain Moine, in an exclusive meeting with CRN, said Ingram Micro's going private via its acquisition by China-based Tianjin Tianhai gave it the opportunity to reorganize for growth.

Jeff Jacobson will be replaced as CEO by John Visentin, who has served as a senior consultant to Ichan Enterprises since March. Ichan Enterprises CEO Keith Cozza will be Xerox's chairman of the board.

Replacing Trollope as leader of Cisco's collaboration division will be Amy Chang, a Cisco board member whose startup, Accompany, Cisco said Tuesday it had reached a deal to acquire for $270 million.

Replacing Trollope as leader of Cisco's collaboration division will be Amy Chang, a Cisco board member whose startup, Accompany, Cisco said Tuesday it had reached a deal to acquire for $270 million.

Demand for the $999 smartphone saw 'softness' during the first three months of the year, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Company also expands the AI/machine learning capabilities of its product portfolio and debuts connectors for Docker, Kubernetes and Apache Kafka.

Brad Johnson, director of data science at solution provider New Signature, tells CRN that IoT and blockchain 'feed into each other in ways that are very important.'

It's your job as a solution provider to get insight into the application vulnerabilities attacking your customers' networks. But how?

"This is the VMware vision for the future for networking: a ubiquitous software layer from the data center to cloud to edge -- empowering you to connect and secure data regardless of where they might reside," said VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger during his keynote at Dell Technologies World.

Part 2 of CRN's Big Data 100 looks at the companies you need to know in the data science and machine learning space.