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Parallels Upgrades App, Desktop Server

Version 17 of Parallels RAS speeds log-in by predicting user behavior with AI, and adds a host of new features and integrations.

5 IoT Companies That Should Be On A Solution Provider's Radar

Is your solution provider practice looking for a new IoT vendor to work with? As part of IoT Week, CRN highlights five emerging IoT companies that are actively looking to work with new channel partners.

5 Reasons To Check Out The Lenovo ThinkBook

The company's recently introduced notebook brings together premium design and performance at a price level SMBs will appreciate.

Keerti Melkote On How HPE Aruba Differs From Dell, Cisco

Keerti Melkote, co-founder and president of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, spoke with CRN about edge momentum and the battle with Dell and Cisco.

‘I’m Getting Everything In My Mailbox’: Gmail Spam Filters Briefly Fail

For an hour, Gmail users on Twitter reported inboxes inundated with unwanted promotional emails.

HPE's Channel Gets A New Digital Marketing Partner Accreditation

HPE is expanding its Marketing Pro Academy with a new on-demand Digital Marketing Partner Accreditation program.

CMO Jim Jackson On HPE's Digital Transformation And The IT Monster

HPE CMO Jim Jackson spoke with CRN about his company's digital business transformation and how partners can profit.

Dell Servers Getting ‘Significant List Price’ Change As Costs Lower

‘We have made a significant list price moves over the past couple of months in servers and we’re going to continue to make sure that we’re priced competitively,’ says Dell’s global Channel Chief Joyce Mullen.

Antonio Neri: Why Dell's Cloud Platform Is A ‘Bad Imitation’ Of HPE Greenlake

HPE Enterprise President and CEO Antonio Neri, who has ramped up the HPE innovation charge, says that the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform is a 'bad imitation' of HPE GreenLake.

Chief Sales Officer Phil Davis: 4 Keys To Selling HPE Greenlake

HPE Chief Sales Office Phil Davis says the GreenLake Quick Quote Configuration tool will take partner sales rep customer quotes from 15 hours to 15 minutes.

ConnectWise Upgrades Its Marketplace To Include Buying

‘If someone wants to go buy one of these third-party products, they can go do so, whenever they want. They can choose how many licenses they want to give, and also upgrade and downgrade the licenses and we’re also providing usage-based licensing, where appropriate for the product,’ ConnectWise chief product officer Jeff Bishop tells CRN.

U.S. Blacklisting Could Cost Huawei $30B Over Two Years

The formerly fast-growing maker of networking equipment and mobile devices will see its revenue sink in 2019 from last year, according to Huawei’s founder.

Partners: Lenovo ThinkBook Has A Winning Formula For SMBs

The notebook offers much of what business users love about the ThinkPad, but with pricing that's affordable for many smaller businesses.

How Champions Of Change Became An HPE Greenlake Superstar

Champions of Change, an Australian strategic service provider, delivered the first GreenLake Flex Capacity 3.0 channel pay-per-use deal.

HPE North America Channel Chief Terry Richardson: 5 Bets Partners Should Make To Drive Sales Growth

HPE North America Channel Chief Terry Richardson says partners need to make bets on key opportunities like GreenLake, Edge compute, intelligent storage, ProLiant volume compute and HPE customer choice alliances to drive sales growth.

Cisco’s New Americas Channel Chief On Driving Partner Predictability And Profitability

by Diana Blass

Cisco’s new Channel Chief of the Americas John Moses discusses his vision for partners in an interview with CRN at Cisco Live 2019.

Cisco’s Software Updates Represent A Paradigm Shift In Networking, Says Presidio CTO

by Diana Blass

At Cisco Live, Cisco introduced new innovations around artificial intelligence and machine learning to give customers more visibility and control over their networks. Cisco’s Gordon Thomson and Presidio’s Vinu Thomas weigh in on the news.

Antonio Neri: The ‘Biggest Innovation’ At HPE Discover Will Be A Pivot To As-A-Service

by Steven Burke

HPE CEO Antonio Neri says HPE will be conducting a full court press on everything-as-a-service at the company's Discover conference this week.

5 Companies That Had A Rough Week

by Rick Whiting

For the week ending June 14, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

10 Cool Tech Gadgets For A Hot Summer

by Kyle Alspach

From portable speakers to grilling accessories to high-tech camping gear, here's our list of top gadgets for the summer months.