Champion Solutions Group Buys DirecLogix To Bolster Southeast Dominance

by O’Ryan Johnson

‘We really want to be a dominant player in Florida and southeast marketplace,’ Champion Solutions Group CEO and President Chris Pyle tells CRN. ‘Customers aren’t looking for more vendors. They’re looking to have less vendors with more capabilities. That’s really the value of our two organizations coming together.’

Startup Guardicore Raises $60M To Take On VMware NSX, Cisco ACI

by Michael Novinson

Customers moving to the cloud tend to prefer a platform-agnostic offering like Guardicore rather than VMware NSX which locks users into vSphere or Cisco ACI which locks users into an on-premise physical environment, CEO Pavel Gurvich said.

JEDI Cloud Faces New Challenge As Congress Threatens Withholding Migration Funds

by Joseph Tsidulko

The House subcommittee responsible for advancing military spending bills submitted a report that says it will require the Pentagon's CIO to explain how the military plans to avoid vendor lock-in as it pursues its winner-take-all cloud transformation initiative

T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Gets FCC Chair’s Blessing While DOJ May Say No

by Joseph F. Kovar

Hours after the FCC backed the merger based on several ‘significant’ concessions the two made to ensure widespread available of 5G technology, especially in rural areas, Bloomberg reported the DOJ may be pushing against it.

Cyber Threat Report: Capturing The Cloud Security Opportunity

by Aaron Nobil

Learn how the launch of Sophos Cloud Optix demonstrates Sophos’ commitment to providing solution providers a more well-rounded security portfolio.

WATCH: Lenovo’s Intelligent Devices Channel Chief Talks Strategy And Challenges At Accelerate 2019

by Diana Blass

Lenovo’s Rob Cato discusses what’s new for the company’s channel strategy at the annual customer and partner conference, Accelerate 2019.

See Lenovo’s New Foldable PC In Action

by Diana Blass

CRNtv gets an up close look at Lenovo’s latest devices, including a prototype of the foldable PC set to launch in 2020.

WATCH: Lenovo Intelligent Devices Executive On New Tools To Win Over VARs

by Diana Blass

Lenovo’s Jennifer Downes discusses new marketing tools that have allowed Lenovo to expand its reach from MSPs to VARs.

SADA Systems Hires Google Cloud Solutions Director As CTO

by Donna Goodison

‘Our CTO role was so important, we literally went and got possibly the best person in the world for this role, and it happened to be from Google,' says Tony Safoian, CEO of SADA Systems, a Google Premier Partner.

Huawei Ban: Google, Intel Reportedly Suspend Business With Chinese Telecom Giant

by Dylan Martin

'I would be shocked if it doesn't have a major impact,' one solution provider says of Google's decision to suspend business with Huawei, which reportedly coincides with similar actions by Intel, Qualcomm and other tech companies after the Chinese telecom giant was added to a U.S. trade blacklist.

WATCH: Nutanix SVP Of Global Marketing On The Two Incentives Partners Need To Know

by Diana Blass

Nutanix’s channel charter includes a number of marketing incentives to help partners close deals and win new customers. Executives discussed the details with CRNtv at the company’s annual customer and partner conference, .NEXT 2019.

WATCH: Everything You Need To Know About Nutanix’s ‘Channel Charter’

by Diana Blass

Nutanix executives and partners discuss the outcomes since Nutanix launched its first partner program in August.