Accenture has bet big on digital technologies and cost rationalization for its clients, and CEO Pierre Nanterme said the systems integrator, No. 3 on CRN's Solution Provider 500 list, is seeing its push pay off as it gains market share against its traditional IT competitors.

Cisco lost two key execs in Paul Perez and Raju Datla earlier this month. CRN takes a look at other important Cisco executives that recently left the networking giant.

Emerging technology around social, mobility, analytics and cloud (SMAC) are creating ripples of change in everything from IT sales and marketing to the customer base and competitive landscape, according to IDC's vice president of channels and alliances research.Via itbestofbreed.com

Apple has scooped up Tysons Corner, Va.-based open-source database software company FoundationDB, according to TechCrunch.

Teo Technologies has unique channel offerings that give partners heavy up-front commissions tied with a no-clawback clause that has partners raving.

Many Microsoft partners around the world still aren't running Office 365 internally, so Microsoft and SkyKick are offering free SaaS migration service through the end of June.

The German-American IaaS startup takes on the industry giants with the bold proclamation.

The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform aims to turn commodity server hardware into a storage platform that provides the top storage services to block, file and object storage.

Voting in Round 1 of CRN Channel Madness closed Wednesday morning. See who made the Solutions 16 to move on to Round 2.

Microsoft is all about cross-platform mobile development these days, and a new bundle of Azure services aims to make it easy for developers to build iOS and Android apps.

The results are in and the field of 32 has been cut in half after Round 1 of the first-ever CRN Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs. Check out which channel chiefs are moving on to Round 2.

As part of the Partner Program Guide, CRN designates some programs as 5-Star Partner Programs. Here are the 5-Star designees in the systems space.

The reality is that building and scaling the infrastructure necessary for big data is an insurmountable task for most businesses.Via itbestofbreed.com

Last week's HP Global Partner Conference saw HP roll out several new server, storage, and other solutions and products for enterprise and SMB IT infrastructures, and showed the company's upcoming split has not slowed down product development.

Migration from legacy and traditional systems and platforms is providing huge opportunities for managed services plays for the channel, partners say.

IBM's new products, which allow users flexibility in selecting volumes and IOPS, come amid a fresh round of storage upgrades from major cloud providers.

The MSPs all were certified through third-party auditors to offer managed services on Amazon's cloud.

The cybersecurity company has parlayed its intelligence expertise into seed funding from Trinity Ventures and plans to announce its first channel partners next quarter.

PayPal is a big VMware customer that also says it's getting great results from using OpenStack. Does this mean PayPal is going to ditch VMware? That point of debate has once again come to the fore.

Condusiv says that by defragging disks at the logical disk layer, its new Diskeeper 15 Server adds performance beyond the standard disk defragging software.