Software-defined networking continued to be a hot topic of the networking world in 2014, but other trends also have emerged. Here are 10 networking startups that shook up the market, and its incumbents, so far, in 2014.
In an interview with CRN, Nick Earle says Cisco's Intercloud offers partners more opportunity -- and more money -- than they would get selling Amazon Web Services.
In a court filing Friday, the Justice Department said its recent action neutralized the notorious Cryptolocker Trojan, making it incapable of freezing victims from accessing their files.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently sent out an email to employees outlining his vision for the company. Ahead of his address to partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference, here is CRN's interpretation of what we consider to be the email's most important points.
With the HP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Migration Program, HP is putting solution providers on the front lines of its partnership with Microsoft to upgrade a big chunk of the 11.7 million servers still running the 11 year old operating system.
In an effort to make greater strides in the mobility space, HP is launching a new commercial mobility and software unit along with a tighter alliance with software giant Microsoft and chip giant Intel.
Samsung was scheduled to release its first smartphone running on its homemade Tizen operating system on Thursday to app developers at its launch event in Moscow. Instead, the company delayed the release with no details on a new release date or reason for the cancellation.
A global law enforcement operation seized servers operated by the criminal gang behind Shylock, a dangerous banking Trojan that gained attention for its ability to inject itself into browsers, bypass security measures and transfer money from victims' accounts.
Geno Cenci, national Microsoft practice director for $1.1 billion solution provider ePlus Technology, is being honored as the 2014 Microsoft Sales Specialist of the Year.
Microsoft issued an emergency update for Windows users in response to a Google warning this week that attackers could use the rogue certificates against users of Google and Yahoo services.
Salesforce.com makes another acqusition, this time snapping up a startup that fuses big data with CRM to let salespeople close deals faster. It's a company that has positioned itself as a Salesforce killer.
The company's focus on next-generation cloud-networking technologies already helped shepherd VeloCloud through to Series B funding and it's not stopping there, with a few more startups now in the fold.
Dell has made some Texas-size promises to partners since going private, including moving some 200,000 direct accounts to the channel. How is that working out today?
There have been a total of 395 reported breaches in 2014, exposing more than 11 million records, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Here are 10 of the biggest ones.
Other top stories this week include a Gartner prediction that has tablet shipments passing PCs by 2015. IDC also reports U.S. PC shipments are up 7 percent.
