Huawei used its annual Global Analyst Summit to show its vision and its technology to the world.

This week's five companies that had a rough week includes Massachusetts' health exchange website, CA Technologies channel chief Adam Famularo's departure, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel's resignation, FTC charges Snapchat with consumer deception and a security glitch in Apple's iOS mobile operating system..

Symantec is investing heavily in storage and some of its key security products, according to interim CEO Michael Brown.

This week's five companies that came to win include Hewlett-Packard's Helion OpenStack products, AMD's Skybridge project, the EMC Business Partner Program and Sophos Americas Partner Connections program.

Dell CEO Michael Dell hit the stage at Ingram Micro's inaugural IMOne event to talk about the benefits of being a private company and the growth for Dell's channel business.

VCE, the converged infrastructure joint venture between EMC and Cisco and VMWare, is showing tension over software-defined networking in vBlocks and other areas.

In other top news stories, EMC told partners it will offer converged-infrastructure technology. Also, D&H Distributing sees double-digit growth, thanks to the Windows XP expiration date.

Oracles hires lots of college students for sales positions every year and they sometimes compete with partners, but now Oracle salespeople are getting stronger sales training.

Amazon introduces professional-level certification exam.

German security expert Andreas Kurtz has found that email attachments are not encrpyted under iOS. Solution providers believe this hurts Apple's mobile security reputation.

Cisco Systems' Edison Peres takes on a new role as senior vice president of Cloud and Managed Services, part of an organizational shake-up aimed at driving Cisco's new InterCloud initiative.

Dell CEO Michael Dell spoke at Ingram Micro's IMOne event in New Orleans and said that his company's channel business grew 95 percent in the first quarter this year.

In its third acquisition of the year, solution provider and top IBM partner Perficient has acquired the IBM Smarter Commerce division of Trifecta Technologies for $13.7 million.

Former NSA Director Chris Inglis discussed the National Security Agency's hiring process at the 2014 Symantec Vision Conference.

Author and business guru Scott McKain shares his five tips for helping partners' brands stick out at the Cisco Velocity partner marketing event in Chicago.

For editing Office documents, who needs Microsoft? Here are eight non-Microsoft Apps that are better than Office Docs.

Cloud-based IT management software company Kaseya has revamped its approach to the channel with an enhanced partner program, new channel executives and an increased commitment to partners.

Sophos is seeking to make gains by selling its endpoint security software and unifed threat management appliances to small and midsize businesses.

A day after announcing U.S. CEO Jorge Benitez will step down at the end of the month, Accenture named Stephen Rohleder to the newly created position of chief executive of North America.

Channel chiefs discuss how distributors affect their business. This roundtable features Cindy Bates of Microsoft, Frank Rauch of VMware, Tami Duncan of IBM, Frank Vitagliano of Dell, Edison Peres of Cisco and HP's Jesse Chavez.