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IBM Makes Bigger Industrial IoT Play With Oniqua Acquisition

"Clients are moving from legacy, on-premise offerings to new cloud-based predictive analytics and prescriptive maintenance offerings. But without instant access to the right data, they are still susceptible to critical equipment breakdowns that can cripple their businesses," Jay Bellissimo of IBM Global Business Services said.
Here's Who Made Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant For Industrial IoT

IBM, Oracle, SAP and Accenture are just a few of the 11 vendors who made Gartner's first-ever Industrial Internet of Things magic quadrant.
AT&T IoT Exec: Partners See 'Attractive' Revenue Opportunities For Managed Services

AT&T IoT executive Mobeen Khan discusses the next big opportunities in the Internet of Things and what is driving growth for the company's IoT business.
PTC Exec: $1B Rockwell Deal Will Act As 'Force Multiplier' For Partner Selling Opportunities

"Now all of a sudden we have Rockwell's 35,000 live customers as prospects to sell into it. That doesn’t apply just to our direct sales team but also our partner ecosystem," PTC's Don Busiek told CRN.
Blockchain Bonanza: Solution Providers Say The Technology Behind Bitcoin Is 'The Real Deal'

Solution providers and other industry observers say the applicability of blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that powers cryptocurrencies, has the potential to impact banking and financial markets, insurance, retail and consumer goods, health care, government and transportation and more.
8 Hot Blockchain Vendors Solution Providers Should Check Out

For solution providers interested in a blockchain practice, there is already a diversity of enterprise platforms available both from major vendors and newcomers. Here are eight hot blockchain vendors whose software you can start using today.
IoT Security Startup Claroty Raises $60M For Big Channel, Engineering Expansion

With over 40 partners now, the industrial Internet of Things security startup aims to have more than 50 percent of revenue come from the channel next year.
Intel Aims To Help Partners Accelerate Vision Computing At The Edge

"Clearly if you fed all of that amount of data on a daily basis back into some central place, it just wouldn't be practical, so it has to move to the edge so that pre-processing can be done," said Brian Salisbury, vice president of product management at Melville, N.Y.-based solution provider Comtech Telecommunications.
Survey: IoT Security Is A Growing Concern For Companies But Few Are Taking Action

Some 64 percent of respondents said they are more concerned about device threats than they were last year, with Internet of Things devices being the chief concern. At the same time, one-third of respondents said their organizations were not ready to detect connected device threats.
Ingram Micro's Advanced Solutions Group Is Leading The IoT Revolution

Ingram Micro has the right touch when it comes to advanced technologies and solutions, putting partners in position to drive big sales and profits from the Internet of Things and cloud services.
Dell Technologies World 2018: The 5 Biggest Trends Driving Dell's Product And Solution Strategy

Dell Technologies executive Jeff Clarke discusses the five key trends that will dictate the future of the IT industry as well as the strategies Dell is developing to capitalize on the opportunities.
Dell Technologies CMO Allison Dew Tackles The Software-Defined, AI Customer Conundrum

Businesses globally are eager to base their operations on the efficiencies and insights promised by the move to 'software-defined' technologies and artificial intelligence, but are deeply uncertain about whether that promise will ever be realized, Dell Technologies CMO Allison Dew said.
IBM Files Patent That Tackles Challenges of Running A Blockchain On IoT Devices

Brad Johnson, director of data science at solution provider New Signature, tells CRN that IoT and blockchain 'feed into each other in ways that are very important.'
Michael Dell On Regulating AI, The Coming 5G Explosion And Considering Going Public, Or Not

Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell says his company's position as the largest IT infrastructure player in the world gives it an especially advantageous position in leading-edge technologies like artificial intelligence and 5G.
Survey: IoT Developer Support Grows For AWS, Azure While Google Cloud Loses Steam

Google Cloud's popularity fell 8 percent from last year, giving it an 18.8 percent market share for IoT developers. That slip put Google Cloud behind private/on-premise cloud solutions for IoT in the survey.
5 Major IoT Challenges Executives Are Grappling With

A recent survey of more than 100 IoT executives found that many of them face issues when it comes to scalability, implementation, connectivity and security of IoT deployments, pointing to potential opportunities for solution providers.
Power Play: Turning IoT Barriers Into Opportunities

Big opportunities lie ahead for solution providers to capitalize on the edge computing revolution.
As IoT Startup Particle Pushes LTE Connectivity, A Scalable Channel Program Remains Elusive

After telling CRN in 2016 that the company would use some of its $10.4 million Series A round to grow Particle's channel program "substantially," CEO Zach Supalla said that the plan hasn't worked out to the company's original expectations, though he believes it's still a "huge opportunity."
PTC CEO: IoT Growth Shows It's A 'Major Strategic Differentiator For Industrial Companies'

While IoT software still constitutes a smaller fraction of total revenue, it remained PTC's fastest-growing business, growing 33 percent year over year in the second quarter to $29 million.
Intel Axes New Devices Group As Smart Glasses Dreams Fade

The closure of the New Devices Group, started in 2013 by former Apple and Palm executive Mike Bell, comes after Intel shut down the group's wearable division in 2016.

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CRN Internet of Things News

IBM Makes Bigger Industrial IoT Play With Oniqua Acquisition

Here's Who Made Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant For Industrial IoT

AT&T IoT Exec: Partners See 'Attractive' Revenue Opportunities For Managed Services

PTC Exec: $1B Rockwell Deal Will Act As 'Force Multiplier' For Partner Selling Opportunities

Blockchain Bonanza: Solution Providers Say The Technology Behind Bitcoin Is 'The Real Deal'

8 Hot Blockchain Vendors Solution Providers Should Check Out

IoT Security Startup Claroty Raises $60M For Big Channel, Engineering Expansion

Intel Aims To Help Partners Accelerate Vision Computing At The Edge

Survey: IoT Security Is A Growing Concern For Companies But Few Are Taking Action

Ingram Micro's Advanced Solutions Group Is Leading The IoT Revolution

Dell Technologies World 2018: The 5 Biggest Trends Driving Dell's Product And Solution Strategy

Dell Technologies CMO Allison Dew Tackles The Software-Defined, AI Customer Conundrum

IBM Files Patent That Tackles Challenges of Running A Blockchain On IoT Devices

Michael Dell On Regulating AI, The Coming 5G Explosion And Considering Going Public, Or Not

Survey: IoT Developer Support Grows For AWS, Azure While Google Cloud Loses Steam

5 Major IoT Challenges Executives Are Grappling With

Power Play: Turning IoT Barriers Into Opportunities

As IoT Startup Particle Pushes LTE Connectivity, A Scalable Channel Program Remains Elusive

PTC CEO: IoT Growth Shows It's A 'Major Strategic Differentiator For Industrial Companies'

Intel Axes New Devices Group As Smart Glasses Dreams Fade

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