Fake Cisco gear fails far more frequently than genuine Cisco products, and those failures "can cause privacy and security vulnerabilities, data loss, network downtime and substantial business interruption," Cisco said.

Jon Whitlock took the top channel job less than a year ago. The data-protection vendor is splitting channel sales away from channel marketing

The cloud automation vendor previously only shipped software, but an OEM relationship with Dell now offers customers a pre-installed, scalable private cloud solution that can be rapidly deployed.

Macs running older operating systems had lacked Meltdown protections that had already come to the current version of macOS, High Sierra.

After operating a channel program for two years, the startup saw that VARs needed help figuring out the business side of the MSP model.

Wireless analytics firm OpenSignal crowns T-Mobile as having the quickest and most responsive LTE network in fourth-quarter 2017.

Solution providers say there is no clear timeline for resolution of Spectre and Meltdown security exploits now that Intel has stopped deployment of current versions of patches.

Microsoft unveils new learning tools and affordable devices that are aimed at rivaling Google's Chromebook dominance in schools.

'Our focus is to use the assets that we have today to be competitive in ways the others can't compete. We see much more opportunity to be innovative versus using tax reform to bring our prices down,' Lowel McAdam said on the company's earnings call Tuesday.

TSP, which first got into home automation a few years ago when customers on the commercial side began asking for help supporting their personal home IoT networks, takes CRN through its latest fully automated residential space.

Durable cases, stands and wireless chargers and are among the cool accessories we've seen lately for the iPhone.

The developer of ERP applications says it is seeking partners involved in helping manufacturing companies solve shop floor scheduling and on-time delivery issues.

Rodney Foreman, a veteran of IBM who last led channel efforts at Informatica, is taking over channel leadership of the hyper-converged infrastructure powerhouse.

"This is a significantly richer program for partners," said Virtual Instruments channel leader Paul Brodie.

Virtual Instruments Paul Brodie is already increasing partner profitability through a revamped channel program unveiled on Tuesday, urging partners to "get out of their comfort zone."

HyTrust has tasked former Zerto channel leader Jason Cowie with launching a new, multi-tier global partner program that incentivizes and rewards both traditional and non-traditional solution providers.

Cradlepoint hopes that its new NetCloud Solution Package will help partners and customers easily navigate and deploy complex IoT solutions for kiosks and digitial signage.

The IT service management vendor said the latest edition of its RMM platform will give managed service providers access to a broader array of vendor integrations and a bulked up PSA integration with BMS.

Linus Torvalds, in a profane public email exchange with another Linux expert, said Intel's patches to the OS kernel "do literally insane things. They do things that do not make sense."

Matthew Zielinski will run Lenovo's North American PC business after spending 12 years at AMD in sales leadership positions.