CRN Cloud News

Mark Thurmond spoke with CRN about the channel's role in Turbonomic's rapid growth in the last year and the significant revenue opportunities for partners in 2018.

The Portland-based ISV "will add some rocket fuel to Citrix ability to optimize application delivery," one Citrix partner says

Bringing years of experience from Oracle, Salesforce and Microsoft, the new Chief Partners Officer sees a new opportunity for the channel in Twilio's communications technology

Security specialist Symantec will now be bolstering security to for Microsoft Azure and Office 365 environments via an extended partnership between the two companies, making it easier for businesses to adopt hybrid cloud, while giving partners more cloud security opportunities.

'There's tremendous affinity to the channel across the management team and the channel is our growth engine, so we intend to nurture it even more now,' says Ali Din, who will lead marketing across both companies.

The offer, which runs until June 30, applies to existing storage contracts for Box, Dropbox or Google Drive and is available to customers who commit to 500 seats.

The cloud market further consolidated in 2017 as it maintained spectacular growth. Here's how the major vendors stack up entering 2018, according to Synergy Research.

These 20 vendors are offering cloud platforms that accelerate the development of applications, workflows and processes, data integration projects and advanced analytics capabilities.

From startups to more established companies, innovative products are changing the cloud software game and broadening and accelerating its adoption. Here are 20 companies at the forefront of that transformation.