iCorps Technologies has been an Apple partner for 21 years. Yet over the past five years revenue from Apple products and services has shrunk from 100 percent to less than 10 percent of its overall business.
Partners have had a bumpy relationship with Apple over the years, but has it now been damaged beyond repair? The company's enterprise deals with IBM and now Cisco have many partners saying they know channel conflict when they see it.
It's now official. Dell has acquired EMC in a $67 billion deal that is the largest in this history of the IT industry and has major ramifications in the channel.
The historic deal, which includes a provision for EMC to seek other suitors, was being negotiated directly between Dell CEO Michael Dell and EMC CEO Joe Tucci, according to Re/code.
SolarWinds, which owns remote monitoring and management company N-Able, might be sold after a third-party expressed unsolicited interest in the management software firm.
Microsoft is talking up SaaS telemetry software from Lakeside Software, one of its channel partners, as a way for customers to quickly diagnose issues with apps that are running in the cloud.
According to market researcher IDC, PC shipments dipped 10.8 percent year over year in the third quarter, as the market faces a transition period in the midst of a major operating system upgrade clouded by challenging financial conditions.
The former vice president has filed a federal lawsuit against the company and its CEO and CFO, accusing it of discrimination and violating the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
With its focus now squarely on its enterprise security business, Symantec's CEO tells CRN about its Unified Security strategy, new partner incentives, potential acquisitions, and how it's time to reassert what the company stands for when it comes to the channel.
More than 400 sales partners flocked to Napa, Calif., this week to attend master agent Intelisys' Channel Connect event. Here are five supplier partners that shook things up.
In other top stories this week, Microsoft stuns the channel with its new laptop. Plus, Cisco introduces a partner program to boost data analytics solutions.
Intelisys named Subsidium Technologies its first Platinum Plus partner after the upstate New York firm reached $1.5 million in monthly recurring revenue.(From ITBestOfBreed)
The report, if true, would give Dell control of one of the crown jewels of the IT industry, which would be fine as long as Dell kept VMware independent as EMC as done, channel partners said.
