Partners said Cisco 1Source platform replaces daily calls and emails to manage enormous amounts of data efficiently.

Dell's Chris Wolff discusses her rise in the industry and lessons learned along the way.

"You don't want point solutions," Ziv Kedem, Zerto CEO, said during a keynote. "You don't want solutions from multiple vendors. You want one platform. Simple. Scalable."

CEO Charles Giancarlo told CRN after the release of its first fiscal quarter 2018 financials that Pure Storage is planning to unveil new density and performance enhancements to its all-flash storage technology.

"The big concern is when does this end as researchers continue to pound at Spectre and Meltdown? Security researchers in my mind are giving cyber terrorists the time and the information they need to potentially exploit Spectre and Meltdown," said Bob Venero, CEO of Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider Future Tech.