The huge investment provides Cisco with greater visibility and a stronger presence in China to better compete against Huawei and against telecom giant ZTE as well, say solution providers.

Aruba is assuring the channel its relationship with Juniper is intact after Juniper unveiled a new alliance with competitor Ruckus Wireless last week.

From beefing up commissions to building on its own tech, Oracle is taking a variety of approaches to the cloud business that may -- or may not -- keep growing its cloud business.

Jim Whitehurst talks about the dangers of companies that claim to be open source but aren't actually encouraging open participation or innovation from a broad group of users.

The cloud solution aims to speed and simplify the process of launching online retail sites.

Cisco ramped up its Internet of Things strategy Monday by launching more than a dozen Internet-of-Things purpose-built products and a new IoT framework hoping to accelerate partner adoption.

The latest documents from Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had targeted major security vendors, including Kaspersky Lab. Here are the global vendors potentially targeted by the NSA.

For the week ending June 26, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

Accenture reports a huge increase in digital services in third-quarter earnings for 2015.

The emerging Internet of Things will force the channel to incorporate and secure new devices onto corporate networks, according to AWS partners.

Some major networking vendors are trying to break down barriers with big investements as the most populated country in the world starts looking to upgrade its IT.

Intel may delay its 10nm Cannonlake microarchitecture processor platform, slated for release in 2016, according to a leaked product tablet from Benchlife.

Jim Whitehurst talks about what a company needs to do to be successful in today's cutthroat market.

For the week ending June 26, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

As Sophos continues to propel its growth in an exploding market for cybersecurity technologies, the U.K.-based vendor has landed a $1.6 billion valuation in its Initial Public Offering (IPO), according to a filing Friday.

At a recent strategic partner summit in Austin, Texas, Chris Auger, executive director of Dell enterprise solutions, told partners technology is transforming the way customers do business, and Dell can help solution providers stay ahead of those transformations and make the most of evolving customer needs.

Solution providers are embracing unconventional marketing strategies and outsourcing digital outreach as the effectiveness of tried-and-true telemarketing methods wanes.

In other top stories this week, Red Hat and Samsung form an alliance. Also, BlackBerry has mixed results from Q1.

Lenovo just threw its hat into the compute stick ring with its new Ideacentre Stick 300. But how does this new PC on a stick compare to Intel's Compute Stick?

F5 Networks is providing partners with 'significant' pricing advantages when transacting a support renewal through its first ever Renewal Incumbency Program.