As smartwatches like the Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Gear become more popular, so too do apps running on the wearables. Here are 10 of the coolest smartwatch apps so far of 2015.

In an email to employees this week viewed by CRN, PCM President Jay Miley gives details on the creation of three new technology divisions and a host of executive hirings and promotions.

There are plenty of options in the secure Web gateway market, but some vendors are better than others. Take a look at how the vendors stack up in Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant ranking.

The marriage will integrate BlackBerry's BES12 security software into Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop build, a move partners say can only boost enterprise-focused sales.

In other top stories this week, Microsoft announces layoffs. Also, EMC sells Syncplicity.

The stock exchange said a software update was to blame, and a data center operator tells CRN better testing protocols might have sidestepped the glitch.

Microsoft, in its never-ending quest to pull business away from rival VMware, debuts new cloud disaster recovery service that replicates VMware and physical machine workloads.

The breadth of the data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was bigger than previously thought, as the U.S. government revealed Thursday that hackers stole sensitive personal information from tens of millions of federal workers and contractors.

Physical security measures for the protection of infrastructure could make the difference, as physical attacks emerge as a growing threat for solution providers.

Market research firm Gartner lowered its worldwide semiconductor revenue forecast from 4 percent growth to 2.2 percent year over year growth, citing weak application outlooks.

As the Chuck Robbins era approaches at Cisco, Wendy Bahr has been slated to lead the networking giant's channel community, replacing veteran Bruce Klein who will be leaving later this month.

Cisco's new channel chief, Wendy Bahr, tells CRN what's in store for the partner community and why the opportunities are 'endless' as the industry transforms.

Check out the 10 machines deemed worthy of being included in our list of the coolest laptops of the year (so far).

Touting a theme of profitability and partner engagement, Intel Security's Lisa Matherly outlines a more simplified partner program and the addition of a managed services focus.

The chip, which will deliver four times the compute power available today, will be used to power the Watson supercomputer, cloud data centers and mainframes, says IBM.

These waterproof offerings will help you survive the dog days of summer.

Storage vendors so far this year have fed a need for speed with a variety of all-flash storage arrays and solid-state drives designed to help applications run faster than ever.

Datapipe has teamed up with cloud security company FortyCloud for an innovative offering that the companies say will help clients address security challenges in migrating to the public cloud, the companies announced Thursday.

One channel pro says airline and stock exchange outages highlight the challenges in building highly redundant, fault-tolerant systems.

HP and Arrow are working together to make it easy to add free versions of HP's StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Array to both HP and non-HP servers, and in the process maybe selling a lot more of the software-defined storage technology.