The unified communications and networking company confirmed that it has retained Goldman Sachs, Centerview Partners and Kirkland & Ellis to assist in 'Avaya's assessment of financial alternatives available.'
CRN asked three channel executives to weigh in on the market dynamics driving the public cloud boom, how their companies play in that environment and just what they're doing to beat AWS in the sales trenches.
The education sector has become a bright spot for a flagging PC market, but solution providers say their success in that space depends on their ability to sell services as aggressive pricing puts pressure on margins.
Service providers say such a device can ease resource constraints and combat a security threat that many organizations overlook when compared with outside threats.
Larry Prior applauds the merger of CSC with Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services unit, and says CSRA will have time to examine potential opportunities in the 10 months before the expected deal closes.
Partners looking to capture public sector security business must be able to convey the threat landscape and regulatory environment, solution providers on a panel said.
HP Inc. CEO Dion Weisler says better-than-expected earnings show the company is making good on its promise to protect its mainstay PC and printing businesses while investing in high-growth areas like 3-D printing.
The growth of NetApp's all-flash storage, Clustered Ontap and other strategic technologies has yet to offset a drop in NetApp's mature technologies, but the company expects to soon see that change.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman thnks Linux containers will pose a big challenge to longtime partner VMware, but VMware partners say that threat could take some time to materialize.
Cisco's board chairman, John Chambers, grades Cisco's transition progress in 2016 and explains his assertion that America is lagging behind the rest of the world in digitization.
HPE CEO Meg Whitman tells CRN the HPE Enterprise Services-CSC merger creates a pure-play global services company that can innovate faster and then sounds off on how software containers make VMware a "less strategic" asset for Dell-EMC that may actually "shrink over time."
Verizon's CEO has warned that second-quarter sales and net new customer adds could take a hit because of the ongoing strike involving some 40,000 unionized workers.
State CIOs are looking to reduce their IT infrastructure burden by co-locating or virtualizing workloads and adopting public cloud tools, according to the executive director of NASCIO.
CRN has learned that Nick Adamo is set to depart later this year, as partners say Cisco is starting to shift its sales motion to a more enterprise approach that complements what cloud-focused organizations want.
