CRN's Emerging Vendors list for 2014, our annual look at hot tech startups, contains a number of vendors that are making a significant impact on the data center market.

The Wearable Tech Expo took place in New York City last week and CRN was live on the scene. Here are six technologies that stood out.

CRN's 2014 Network Connectivity Services Partner Program Guide is meant to highlight some of the industry's leading portfolios of telecom, cloud and connectivity offerings.

The AWS partner launched a new program for enterprises called CM3.

Datalink reported a strong second quarter thanks to the growth of high-margin services and customers' push into new data center technologies like flash storage and converged infrastructure.

The company now monitors Internet traffic across its network to detect online attacks before they happen.

Highland Capital's $400 million technology fund was first to the table on Series A funding for antivirus maker Malwarebytes, which had been profitable and bootstrapping on its own for the past six years.

CRN's Emerging Vendors list for 2014, our annual look at hot tech startups, includes a number of vendors that are making an impact in the area of networking and VoIP.

EMC, VMware, Cisco, Dell, Yottabyte and who knows who else are planning or are thought to be planning to unveil their entries into the soon-to-be-crowded hyper-converged infrastructure market.

Certes Networks, which specializes in encrypting traffic over wide area networks, is finding increased interest from businesses that want to create secure connections to private and public clouds.

For the week ending July 25, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

The past six months have seen a wave of new solutions targeting the fast-growing converged infrastructure and hyper-converged infrastructure market, and CRN has the details of 12 of them here.

Don't focus so much on the hardware or worry about the details, solution providers are telling their customers. It's all about speed to use and performance.

On the eve of Sage Summit, some solution providers see the new sales goals as a heavy burden for partners.

CRN presents the startups from this year's Emerging Vendors list making a name for themselves in the area of mobility, from tools for developing mobile applications to mobile business intelligence software to a neat gizmo for charging your mobile device.

Other top stories include Apple earnings and the reasoning behind the Apple-IBM partnership. Also: It looks like the Apple iWatch is near.

MSPs are seeing a rise in new customers as often-overwhelmed and underquipped small- and midisze-business owners are realizing the need to bolster their defenses.

Companies have been on an acquisition spree so far in 2014. From Dimension Data's Nexus acquisition, to Lenovo's x86 server and Motorola Mobility buys, to major telecom mergers, take a look back at the biggest blockbuster acquisitions of 2014 so far.

For the week ending July 25, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

The shift should help it align better with its partners' business practices and, as one Citrix exec put it, 'how people operate in the real world.'