BlackBerry CEO John Chen says the move meets two critical needs: more app availability for smartphone users and improved productivity solutions for the enterprise.
Davra's RuBAN platform already is being used by solution providers including Presidio to offer remote monitoring services around the burgeoning Internet of Things space.
Facebook, which launched the Open Compute Project with open source server hardware designs three years ago, is now setting its sights on the networking hardware industry.
Avaya Wednesday tapped former VMware executive Joe Lohmeier as its new U.S. Channel Chief, and also changed its partner program so that solution providers are no longer ranked and rewarded based solely on revenue.
The testing firm issues an update to its breach detection systems testing methodology, indicating it will evaluate the detection of zero-day threats as part of its security effectiveness rating.
The CRN Test Center reviews functional Office apps, most of which are free and work for Android and iOS, and support MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel and cloud computing.
Microsoft, which is shipping its highly-touted Surface 3 tablet later this week, is looking to move remaining Surface Pro 2 inventory with price cuts of up to $200.
In its first Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems report, Gartner included all the top vendors and coalitions in the converged infrastructure market except for the VSPEX reference architecture, which it said included too many vendor options.
Citrix Systems has been searching for a new CEO for nearly five months, and now rumors are swirling that current CEO Mark Templeton may have decided not to retire yet.
Sony agreed to settle a spate of class action lawsuits prompted by its 2011 data breach and nearly month long outage of its popular PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service in 2011. If a judge approves the agreement, Sony will pay out $15 million to U.S. users of its services at the time of the security incident.
A group of executives from Google, Symantec, FirstRain and VMware dished on lessons learned and thoughts on leadership during a panel at CRN's Women of the Channel West event.
The 2014 Virtualization 50 brings together a wide range of vendors that help customers implement virtual server, storage, desktop, networking and application infrastructures, manage those infrastructures, and make those infrastructures a platform on which cloud and mobility can be built.
If the AT&T exclusivity report is confirmed at Amazon's launch, AT&T Partner Exchange program members -- who can now offer its end-to-end mobility portfolio -- could see a big boost in business.
Tely Labs' revamped telyPartner Program reduces the number of partner tiers from five to three and also, for the first time, lets solution providers go through the training and certification process online.
NetApp replaced its two high-end FAS family arrays with the new FAS8080 EX, which can be configured as an all-flash array with 5 petabytes of flash storage capacity, and also introduced the new entry-level FAS2500 series.
Eight months after becoming a private company, Dell's channel chief Cheryl Cook tells CRN that the company is already seeing growth among all partner types.
