"We're working with partners on how to monetize on the cloud," said Jenni Flinders, VMware's new channel chief, who this week rolled out new Master Services Competencies for partners.

Fourteen of the 24 publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the first quarter of 2018 while 10 recorded stock price declines. Take a look at who were the winners and who were the losers.

With the recent addition of CoreOS to its portfolio, Red Hat is primed to dominate the container space, the company's top executive said.

CRN asks 10 identity management and data protection CEOs and technical leaders what the biggest potential minefields are for organizations around the soon-to-be-enforced GDPR regulations.

CRN asked 10 identity management and data protection CEOs and technical leaders what the biggest misconceptions or biggest areas of misunderstanding are around the soon-to-be-enforced GDPR regulations.

"In the future, it's a common pool of technology that we will be able to apply to each and every product based on the set of market requirements to win," said Jeff Clarke, Dell's vice chairman of products and operations.

The CRN Test Center compares two of the leading portable and powerful laptops for 2018.

For the week ending May 18, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

Kevin Rooney says partners that commit to Veeam's multi-cloud, 'hyper-availability' game plan will realize huge growth in services revenue and deeper relationships with the large and growing network of relationships Veeam has built.

For the week ending May 18, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins touted growth in key business units, including applications and security, and discussed the success of its Catalyst 9000 series of switches.

Smart speakers, phone accessories and laptop backpacks are among the top gifts for graduates in 2018.

Dell EMC's new storage strategy revolves around having one single storage product line for each market segment in a move to acceleration innovation.

Veeam CEO Peter McKay says his company is positioned to move from the "boring backup market" of yesterday and into the considerably hotter data availability market focused on hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Alain Monie tells CRN that, while the cloud provides both opportunities and competition for distribution, distributors have found ways to gain strategic value for their channel partners.

Ed Meyercord says Extreme Networks partners have a huge opportunity to realize big margins and rapid growth as cross-sell opportunities emerge from within Extreme's newly expanded portfolio.

From bug bounties to independent assessments of internal processes to relocating core processes outside Russia, here's how Kaspersky Lab plans to go about rebuilding trust with customers and partners following accusations of ties to the Russian government.

As part of the 2018 Women of the Channel, CRN is highlighting 30 female executives at solution provider organizations whose insight and influence in their respective companies help drive channel success.

AWS CEO Andy Jassy talked AI, data privacy, and the impending JEDI cloud contract in an interview. The cloud leader also shared his views on Trump's criticism of Amazon and took a jab at "old guard" database providers.

The Power 100 is culled from the ranks of CRN's Women of the Channel and spotlights the female executives whose insight and influence help drive channel success.

Ingram Micro Americas President Paul Bay spoke with CRN about how the distributor is helping partners grow their revenue, the Internet of Things opportunity and managed services market momentum.

The updated portfolio includes a new EliteBook convertible and 2-in-1 Elite tablet, along with the first 15-inch EliteBook 1000 series device.

"We're building a rewards program that makes it advantageous for our partners to put together these pieces to try to drive more cross-selling," said Dell EMC global channel leader Joyce Mullen.

The groundwork for a feud between the Xerox board of directors and activist investors was laid nine years ago, when the company sought to reach beyond its hardware roots and bought IT service provider Affiliate Computer Services.

For the week ending May 11, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.