Oracle falls short of expectations due to flat new software licensing growth. But CEO Larry Ellison is declaring war on the SaaS and PaaS markets.

The Carbonite Appliance HT10 is Carbonite's first hardware data protection appliance, and its first channel-only offering, highlighting how important the business market has become vs. its earlier consumer storage roots.

Puppet Labs, a startup in the IT automation sofwtare space that has attracted investments from VMware and Cisco, lands new funding round and is now setting its sights on becoming profitable.

Businesses that put off expenses during the recession are paying for it now.

Ingram Micro has dived deeper into the education market by becoming the first distributor to offer Pearson digital learning solutions for resellers, bringing VARs beyond hardware and into the content and curriculum markets.

While solution providers agree that the industry is moving full-speed ahead toward software-defined networking, most don't anticipate Facebook's open source Wedge switch to be an enterprise hit anytime soon.

ServiceNow's Eureka offers a wide range of business solutions.

Eight months ago, Dell became a private company. What has it been up to since? Here are 10 milestones since that pivotal event.

IBM SoftLayer CEO Lance Crosby says he's not interested in getting involved with the cloud pricing war that Microsoft, Google and Amazon are fighting.

QLogic revamps its Signature Partner Program from four tiers to three and lowers the revenue requirements, aiming to make the program easier for partners to navigate.

BlackBerry posts a profit of $23 million for its fiscal first quarter, a big jump from a loss of $423 million just three months ago. Revenue, however, declined for the quarter.

Avnet Senior Vice President of Human Relations Terry Bassett talks about the difference between reputation and a brand. Bassett discusses the importance of brand, from both employer and employee persepectives.

The CRN Test Center breaks down the new Amazon Fire smartphone and compares it with arguably the industry leader, the Samsung Galaxy S5.

eNovance is the seventh largest contributor to OpenStack, and Red Hat's CEO says the company needed a service component to better disseminate the open-source technology.

Riverbed's Michele Hayes and Avnet's Therese Bassett shared their thoughts at last week's Women of the Channel event on what it takes to grow personally and professionally.

D&H and Wells Fargo have teamed up for special financing for VARs looking to take advantage of a booming education market from ConnectED and Common Core initiatives, the companies told CRN exclusively.

Amazon aims to make its mark in smartphones, delivering innovative features in its debut device such as 3-D Dynamic Perspective, four front-facing cameras and new Firefly technology.

The new Intel cloud chip that marries its Xeon chips with a customizable FPGA chip is promising dramatically better performance for cloud service providers and carriers.

Google is among several security firms and tech industry and privacy watchdog groups supporting a measure expected aimed at prohibiting the intelligence community from coaxing technology firms into building back-door access into their products or funding for surveillance over U.S. citizens.

Hacking tools and techniques are often designed to dupe security systems, but subtle clues can uncover their presence on the network, according to Trustwave. The security company issued its annual threat report outlining 10 threat indicators that could signal a security incident and potential data breach.