Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready says the company's first hyper-converged solution to include non-volatile memory with NVMe Express has reduced the time it takes to run a defense contractor's legacy application from eight hours to just four minutes.

"Everyone's situation has changed since Friday – some have experienced flooding or lost power, while others who may have been fine on Monday now have two feet of water in their houses," said one solution provider CEO of his Houston-area employees.

Although SolarWinds MSP has mail antivirus capabilities today, acquiring SpamExperts will provide more robust detection capabilities thanks to their rich threat intelligence engine that it is continuously updating.

The flash storage vendor expects to 'significantly invest in the channel' following the acquisition, according to CEO Rohit Kshetrapal.

HPE remained the leader in a declining U.S. server market as Dell EMC was the only vendor to see share increases, according to data from The NPD Group.

The two companies are forecasting gains of a 'sizable share of flash array demand' in the future.

VMware also expands its Workspace One mobile management platform with easier deployment technology for Windows, macOS and Chrome OS, and adds intelligence to better find issues in applications running on any device.

'If you look at the Juniper strategy, it's four pillars: cloud, cloud, cloud and cloud,' Brian Rosenberg, Juniper's vice president of global partners and alliances, tells CRN.

Accenture plans to launch a dedicated iOS practice in multiple locations, with Apple staff on hand to assist with development of new enterprise solutions.

Gary Brown, vice president of marketing for Intel subsidiary Movidius, says there are opportunities for partners to bring visual intelligence to markets in which companies want to include AI in their products but don't have the expertise to build the right modules.

Company also launches HR document management software that provides business process consulting opportunities for channel partners.

Joined on stage by the CEOs of AWS and HP Inc. at the VMworld conference, the VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described a strategy that involves building out solutions that leverage big tech industry partnerships.

Partners say the appointment of former Nimble Sales VP Keegan Riley as vice president and general manager of HPE's North American storage business is a potential enterprise account channel game changer.

The quickly growing managed services provider announced Praschak, a technology and telecom services industry veteran, as its new president and CEO on Monday and he's already got a plan to expand the business.

Synnex has rapidly expanded its footprint in Greenville, S.C., in recent years, which serves as the company's North American distribution headquarters.

Reinstating training requirements reverses a late July decision to waive those requirements. The partner portal is the only way for solution providers to access the training required to advance their partner program tier status.

Here are five security solutions and partnerships announced at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas this week.

Partners say they couldn't be happier that Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, widely reported to have been in the running for the Uber CEO job, will continue to lead the charge on what they are calling a channel renaissance.

The CRN Test Center compares the latest models of the popular 2-in-1 tablets from Apple and Microsoft. Here's how the iPad Pro stacks up against the Surface Pro.

The departure, which Gilroy described in a LinkedIn post as 'retiring from Samsung,' comes as the company is expanding its partner ranks and bolstering its channel program.