5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
For the week ending Feb. 6, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.
News from CRN feed
10 Things To Know About A Combined Accuvant-FishNet
Two FishNet executives sound off on integration priorities for their merger with Accuvant, how the new executive team was picked and where the company is looking to expand.
5 Takeaways From Juniper's New Partner Program
Juniper Networks channel executive Matt Hurley breaks down Juniper's recently revamped partner program and what solution providers need to know.
Channel Beat: Whose Tablet Shipments Dropped 70 Percent?
In other top stories this week, Lenovo reported a happy fourth quarter. Also, VMware invites partners to its professional services business.
VMware Gets FedRAMP Certification, Sets Sights On Government Agencies Hungry For Hybrid Clouds
VMware now has FedRAMP certification for its new government agency-focused public cloud, and it's going after federal customers that have long been craving a "real" public cloud they can use.
Symantec Suffers Security Revenue Declines During Restructuring
Symantec's Norton antivirus line and enterprise security business suffered revenue declines.
VCE Says It Will Offer Vblocks With VMware NSX Technology Sometime This Quarter
VCE, the VMware-Cisco-EMC converged infrastructure joint venture, will soon let customers choose VMware's software-defined networking technology instead of Cisco's.
Channel Partners Scoping Out Direction In Wearables Market
Despite the excitement growing around Apple's imminent release of its new smartwatch, partners are still fleshing out the opportunities that wearables will bring to the channel.
CRN Printer Week Reviews: Mobile Print Apps Offer Something For VARs Too
From monitoring of consumables to helping the help desk, mobile-device printing apps can do more than just print, scan and fax.
30 Notable IT Executive Moves: January 2015
It was a busy start to 2015 for many IT companies with Lenovo, IBM, Microsoft, Xerox, Citrix and more shaking up their executive lineups. Here are 30 notable executive moves for January.
Quartet Service Acquires En Vogue Computers To 'Double Down' On Office 365
Toronto-based Quartet Service is betting big on Office 365 with the acquisition of En Vogue Computers, the MSP announced Wednesday.
Meraki Founders Say Bye-Bye To Cisco
The three founders of Meraki have called it quits at Cisco after two years since being acquired.
MSPs Have Huge Opportunity In Security, But Be Ready To Work
Those who don't will be left behind, gathering low-hanging fruit until eventually there's none left to harvest.Via itbestofbreed.com
CompuCom Names Board Chairman As CEO, Snags Lenovo Exec To Be EVP
CompuCom has changed CEOs for the third time in the past 21 months, tapping the executive chairman of its board to be its next leader.
SHI International CEO Thai Lee: 'It's A Great Time To Be In IT'
SHI International, No. 15 on CRN's SP500 list, posted record-breaking revenue for the year of $6 billion, driven by an overall growing demand for IT, CEO Thai Lee told CRN.
5 Problems That Crushed Samsung's Mobile Division
Samsung's mobile division profit was down 64 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the same period last year. CRN looks at reasons for the decline and how Samsung aims to turn the tide.
14 Mammoth Channel Reorganizations Since 2014
A number of vendors, distributors and solution providers are breaking down silos and bringing different technologies under the umbrella of a single organization. Here are 14 key reorganizations.
Microsoft Reportedly Buys Mobile Calendaring Startup Sunrise
Sunrise develops popular apps that seamlessly integrate with other cloud-based calendaring products offered by Apple, Google and Microsoft, such as Exchange.
VMware Pumps Up Cloud Professional Services Skills With Two Under-The-Radar Acquisitions
VMware acquired two small consulting partners last year without announcing the deals, but now it's talking about how one of them will help its professional services delivery capabilities.
ExaGrid CEO Making Big Investments In 100 Percent Channel Model
ExaGrid Systems CEO Bill Andrews says the deduplication backup appliance company is launching a channel offensive as it moves to disrupt large competitors such as EMC, HP and Symantec.
