Qlik CEO: ‘Trusted Data Foundation’ For AI Is The Theme At This Week’s Connect Event
Qlik CEO Mike Capone told CRN that a trusted data foundation is essential for successful AI, especially agentic AI that automates decisions. He highlighted that 86% of AI projects miss ROI because companies skip end‑to‑end data preparation. Qlik has invested roughly $2 billion in R&D and 14 acquisitions to build its platform, including a Trust Score that validates data quality before modeling. At the upcoming Qlik Connect event, the company will unveil new agentic AI tools and a partnership with ServiceNow to link data governance with workflow automation.
General Informatics CEO Don Monistere On AI, Security, And The Future Of Managed Services
General Informatics (GI) has deepened its AI practice by acquiring IMS Solutions Group, a managed‑services firm with roughly $10 million in annual revenue. The deal expands GI’s geographic reach into Greenville, South Carolina, and adds IMS’s AI‑focused platform sales to GI’s...
Cynomi Unveils CISO AI Agents, Go-To-Market Academy As CEO Pushes To Become ‘AI-First Company’
Cynomi announced a major platform upgrade that adds AI‑driven CISO, auditor, analyst and communicator agents, effectively creating a virtual security team for managed service providers (MSPs). Simultaneously, the company launched a Go‑to‑Market Academy to help partners package, price and sell...
Data Center Market Share Face-Off: Hyperscalers Vs. Colocation Vs. Enterprise
Synergy Research Group reports hyperscalers now dominate global data‑center capacity, owning 1,360 large facilities. Enterprise on‑premise share fell from 56% in 2018 to 32% in 2025 and is projected at 19% by 2031. Colocation remains steady around 20% but growth...
Analysis: Anthropic Claude Mythos Won’t ‘Reshape Cybersecurity’
Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier AI model touted to overhaul vulnerability discovery and management. The company paired the preview with Project Glasswing, granting early access to firms like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. Investor reaction was swift, sending shares of major...
Cisco To Snap Up AI Observability Startup Galileo Technologies To Expand Splunk Platform
Cisco Systems announced it will acquire AI observability specialist Galileo Technologies to enhance its Splunk Observability portfolio. Galileo’s platform provides real‑time monitoring, evaluation, and protection for generative AI agents throughout development, testing, and production. The transaction, with undisclosed financial terms,...
ConnectWise CISO: MSP Cybersecurity Readiness Isn’t About ‘Chasing The Latest Zero-Day Anymore’
ConnectWise’s 2026 MSP Threat Report shows attackers are abandoning zero‑day exploits in favor of identity abuse, using stolen credentials, session tokens and trusted service accounts to infiltrate managed service providers. Ransomware groups now prioritize speed, targeting backups and bypassing MFA...
Wasabi CEO On Why Buying Seagate’s Lyve Cloud Storage Business Is A Boost In Storage Supply Chain ‘Mess’
Wasabi Technologies announced the acquisition of Seagate’s Lyve Cloud storage business, adding the latter’s customer base and a sizable pool of disk‑drive infrastructure. As part of the deal, Seagate becomes a shareholder alongside Western Digital and flash‑storage investor Everpure, giving...
Data Governance Is Top Barrier To MSP AI Adoption: Survey
A new AvePoint‑Omdia survey of 333 MSP executives finds data governance and compliance are the biggest obstacles to AI adoption, with 51% naming it the top barrier. The AI services market is projected to reach $276 billion by 2030, creating a...
Intermedia CEO On 26North Deal: ‘Fresh Capital’ Without Channel Disruption
Intermedia, a cloud communications specialist serving 150,000 businesses through more than 7,500 partners, is being acquired by New York‑based private‑equity firm 26North, with the transaction slated to close in Q2 2026. CEO Michael Gold says the deal brings fresh capital to speed...
Nasuni CEO On Expanding Cloud-Native Unstructured Data Platform For AI
Nasuni, a long‑time leader in cloud‑native global file systems, announced two AI‑focused offerings—AI Activate and Active Everywhere—aimed at giving enterprise AI applications secure, permission‑aware access to unstructured data. CEO Sam King framed the move as a natural evolution from the...
NWN Adds Managed Security Services With MDR Partnership, Penetration Testing, vCISO
NWN launched NWN Cybersecurity, a managed security services suite that combines in‑house penetration testing, vCISO, and MDR delivered through a partnership with Arctic Wolf. The offering integrates the AI‑driven Aurora Superintelligence platform and leverages existing Cisco and Palo Alto Networks relationships. NWN...
Anthropic Taps Microsoft Azure AI Veteran For Infrastructure Role
Anthropic has appointed Eric Boyd, former Microsoft Azure AI president, as its head of infrastructure. Boyd will oversee scaling the foundation‑model infrastructure that powers Claude and the company’s expanding partner ecosystem. The move follows Anthropic’s $100 million investment in its Claude...
Exclusive: With New Acer Investment, Peripherals Vendor Plugable Eyes Channel Growth
Plugable, a Seattle‑based peripheral maker, received a minority equity stake from Acer Gadget, enabling it to double its channel and field sales team and expand distribution. The partnership gives Plugable access to a more stable supply chain, faster product launches,...
Upstart Aria Networks Unveils AI‑Native Networking Platform For The AI Factory Era
Aria Networks, a Palo Alto startup, announced the general availability of its AI‑native networking platform designed for the emerging AI factory era. The solution delivers ultra‑fine telemetry—up to 10,000 times more granular than traditional tools—and automatically closes the loop to...
Logicalis CEO Jon Groves On His Plans To Be ‘The Most AI-Infused Partner Out There’
Logicalis CEO Jon Groves announced a push to become the most AI‑infused value‑added reseller and managed services provider, embedding an agentic AI platform into its 24/7 operations at no extra cost to customers. The company, ranked #73 on CRN’s 2025...
The 15 Hottest AI Data And Analytics Companies: The 2026 CRN AI 100
CRN’s 2026 AI 100 spotlights 15 data‑management firms powering the surge of AI agents and generative models. Databricks announced a $1.4 billion annual revenue run rate for its AI suite, while Alteryx, ThoughtSpot, and others unveiled new agentic platforms that embed industry‑specific...
Lenovo Consolidates Partner Tiers, Incentives Amid Services Push
Lenovo is overhauling its Lenovo 360 channel framework by consolidating partner tiers into four unified levels—authorized, gold, platinum and platinum 360—and slashing the number of incentives by roughly 90 percent while keeping total value unchanged. The company also launched a new services...
Harbor IT Bets On Deep Integration, Cybersecurity To Win Midmarket Clients
Harbor IT, backed by Worklyn Partners, has completed ten acquisitions of highly specialized managed service providers and is rebuilding them into a single, integrated platform for mid‑market firms. The company is now concentrating on three verticals—critical infrastructure, private‑equity portfolio companies,...
Immuta Launches Data Provisioning System For AI Agents
Immuta unveiled an Agentic Data Access module that lets autonomous AI agents retrieve enterprise data in real time while enforcing governance policies. The new capabilities treat agents as first‑class data users, applying least‑access privileges, zero standing privileges, and audit trails....
12 Agentic AI Startups To Watch In 2026
The agentic AI security sector is heating up, with twelve startups highlighted for their innovations in identity governance and automated security operations. Noma Security, a three‑year‑old venture, secured $132 million to build a unified AI‑agent protection platform and to accelerate growth...
Most Popular Cloud Discounts From AWS, Azure, Google, IBM And Oracle
Flexera’s 2026 State of the Cloud report shows that nearly half of cloud users rely on provider discounts, with AWS Reserved Instances, Azure Enterprise Agreements, and Google Committed Use discounts leading the pack. Adoption rates stand at 45% for AWS...
Intel CEO: Hiring Zoom’s COO To Lead HR, Legal Affairs Is ‘Central’ To Our Transformation
Intel announced that Aparna Bawa, former Zoom COO and chief legal officer, will assume the combined role of chief legal and people officer in May. The move consolidates Intel's legal, human resources, ethics, and compliance functions under a single executive,...
Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider On Delivering ‘Superior’ Security With New Agentic SOC Platform
Arctic Wolf unveiled the Aurora Agentic SOC, branded as the world’s largest agentic security operations center. Powered by the Aurora Superintelligence Platform, it leverages a proprietary knowledge graph and a swarm of AI agents to ingest more than 10 trillion security...
Intel Gives Bullish CPU Outlook With $14.2B Ireland Fab Deal
Intel announced a $14.2 billion buyback of Apollo’s minority stake in the Fab 34 joint venture, ending the 2024 agreement where Apollo paid $11 billion for a 49% share. By regaining full ownership, Intel signals a stronger balance sheet and confidence in its...
NetBox Labs Builds On Rapid Channel Momentum With Ahead Partnership
NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the open‑source NetBox platform, announced a strategic partnership with Chicago‑based solution provider Ahead. The collaboration will embed NetBox’s infrastructure‑management suite into Ahead’s network‑automation services, supporting cloud‑migration, security and AI‑infrastructure projects. NetBox expects partners to...
AMD Exec: Intel’s Multithreading Misstep Will ‘Help Us Gain Even More Market Share’
AMD’s corporate vice president Madhu Rangarajan says Intel’s upcoming Xeon "Diamond Rapids" CPUs will likely omit simultaneous multithreading (SMT), giving AMD a chance to widen its lead with the soon‑to‑launch EPYC "Venice" processors. AMD’s current EPYC line already outperforms Intel’s...
NWN Pushes ‘Intelligent Connectivity’ To Power AI Everywhere In The Enterprise
NWN announced its Intelligent Connectivity platform, a next‑gen Network‑as‑a‑Service that fuses HPE Mist Wi‑Fi, its Experience Management Platform and multi‑vendor APIs into a unified operating model. The solution, slated for general availability in the first half of 2026, promises AI‑driven...
Treeline Secures $25 Million Series A Round For AI-Powered MSP
Treeline, a San Francisco AI‑powered managed service provider platform, announced a $25 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will accelerate its “modern IT operating system,” which uses AI agents to automate up to 98 % of routine tickets and speed...
2026 Internet of Things 50: AI Is Reshaping The IoT Landscape
AI is rapidly reshaping the Internet of Things, with the 2026 IoT 50 highlighting a wave of new AI‑driven offerings. Siemens partnered with Nvidia to build an Industrial AI operating system that will embed intelligence across manufacturing workflows. HiveMQ expanded its...
The 10 Coolest IoT Connectivity Companies: The 2026 Internet Of Things 50
The 2026 CRN IoT 50 highlights ten connectivity firms reshaping enterprise IoT in the AI era. AT&T’s $5.75 billion acquisition of Lumen’s Quantum Fiber adds 4 million fiber sites, targeting 60 million locations by 2030. Other leaders include Aeris with over 100 million devices, Myriota’s...
Supermicro Servers With Nvidia GPUs Sold To China Military-Linked Universities: Report
Supermicro sold AI‑focused servers equipped with Nvidia A100 GPUs to four Chinese universities, including two with direct military ties. Reuters documents show two additional universities attempted similar purchases, citing ties to the People’s Liberation Army and missile‑technology programs. The sales...
Shift Happens: Auto Companies Move Beyond AI Pilots With Solution Providers
Automotive solution providers—Perficient, Kyndryl, SoftClouds and DXC—are moving AI projects from pilots to production, targeting supply‑chain visibility, predictive maintenance, multilingual documentation and next‑gen infotainment. Executives cite BCG data showing up to 25% cost reductions and 30% productivity gains, while McKinsey...
Verizon Channel Chief Mark Tina: ‘We’ve Now Prioritized The Channel The Right Way’
Verizon has consolidated all channel resources under a single leader, Mark Tina, who now reports directly to Business CEO Kyle Malady. This centralization eliminates internal silos, giving partners a single point of contact for wireline, wireless, and services. The revamped...
Intel Exec: ‘Panther Lake’ Commercial PC Push Will Help Us Regain Market Share
Intel is launching its Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors for commercial PCs at the end of March, positioning the chips as a comeback vehicle against AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 line. The 18 nm design promises double‑digit performance gains and industry‑leading battery life—up...
Nvidia’s Craig Weinstein: Groq AI Racks Will Become A Channel Play ‘Over Time’
Nvidia unveiled its Groq 3 LPX and Vera Rubin NVL72 AI racks, emphasizing ultra‑low‑latency inference for trillion‑parameter models. Channel chief Craig Weinstein says these systems will gradually become a channel play as enterprises scale token‑based workloads. Early feedback from Lenovo and partners suggests limited...
Insight Names Accenture Veteran Jack Azagury As CEO, North America President Resigns
Insight Enterprises announced Jack Azagury, a 29‑year Accenture veteran who led a $15 billion consulting business, as its new president and CEO effective April 13. Simultaneously, North America President Dee Burger and longtime general counsel Sam Cowley will depart, with Burger leaving March 31...
Google Cloud Partner Program Chief Departs; Microsoft’s Former Channel Sales Head Steps In
Google Cloud announced that longtime Microsoft channel executive David Smith will replace departing partner program chief Colleen Kapase. Smith, who spent 27 years at Microsoft and most recently served as vice‑president of worldwide channel sales, joins Google in November 2025....
Palo Alto Networks Debuts Secure Browser For SMBs: 5 Key Features
Cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks launched Prisma Browser for Business, a secure web browser tailored for small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The browser embeds built‑in protection against phishing, ransomware, fraud, and AI‑driven threats, while offering data‑leakage controls and enterprise‑grade policies. Designed...
5 Big CrowdStrike Launches For Next-Gen SIEM, AI Security
CrowdStrike announced major upgrades to its Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM, adding native support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and new data‑pipeline features from the Onum acquisition. The company also expanded its Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) suite to protect desktop...
How Dropzone AI Is Bringing A ‘Software-Only’ Approach To Agentic SOC: CEO
Dropzone AI, founded in 2023 by former ExtraHop scientist Edward Wu, launched a fully software‑only AI SOC Analyst platform that resolves security alerts without any human analyst involvement. The solution promises greater consistency, scalability and transparency, addressing the chronic alert‑overload...
Google DeepMind Hires New AI Chief Strategy Leader, Who Plans ‘To Develop AGI Safely To Empower Humans’
Google DeepMind has hired former Yale professor and Bridgewater chief scientist Jasjeet Sekhon as its new chief strategy officer. Sekhon will work directly with CEO Demis Hassabis to steer DeepMind’s roadmap toward safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). The move follows...
ThoughtSpot Looks To Eliminate The Vertical Industry ‘Context Gap’ In AI Analytics With New Offering
ThoughtSpot introduced Spotter for Industries, an extension of its Spotter agentic analytics platform that delivers industry‑specific AI agents across ten verticals, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The offering tackles the “context gap” by embedding sector‑specific language, data models, and regulatory...
GoTo Launches LogMeIn Partner Network To Boost Channel Momentum
GoTo has unveiled the LogMeIn Partner Network, a channel‑focused program designed to re‑energize its relationships with IT resellers, managed service providers and global systems integrators. The initiative centers on LogMeIn Resolve and Rescue, offering AI‑driven endpoint management, remote support and zero‑trust...
Databricks, Accenture Launch Joint Business Venture Focused On Spurring AI Development
Databricks and Accenture have launched the Accenture Databricks Business Group, a joint venture designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for AI and data workloads. Backed by more than 25,000 Databricks‑trained professionals, the group will help...
Nvidia Exec: These Top Partners Are Aiding Enterprises ‘Still Struggling’ With AI
Nvidia’s Americas channel chief Craig Weinstein announced the 2026 Nvidia Partner Network Awards at GTC, highlighting partners that help enterprises still grappling with AI adoption. Winners such as World Wide Technology, TD Synnex, Deloitte US and newcomers like SHI and LTI Mindtree were...
Summit Holdings Launches MSP-As-A-Service Platform To Help MSPs Scale Faster
Summit Holdings announced the launch of MSP‑as‑a‑Service (MSPaaS), a platform built on its recent acquisition of NOCDOC, a 24×7 NOC/SOC provider. The service delivers a U.S.–based operational backbone—monitoring, security, and support—while allowing partner MSPs to retain branding and sales control....
Rapid7 Boosts Profitability, Simplification In Refreshed Partner Program
Rapid7 unveiled a refreshed partner program that lifts margins on deal registration and co‑sell, introduces an invitation‑only Platinum tier, and streamlines co‑sell structures. The new tier delivers higher rebates, custom demand‑generation, and early product road‑map access for top partners. Simplification...
The New ‘Frontier Partners’: Selling Change, Not Technology
IT distributors and vendors are being urged to abandon pure technology sales in favor of selling organizational change, a shift championed by Futurum Group’s Tiffany Bova. She introduced the concept of “frontier partners” – channel players that prioritize AI‑driven intelligence...
VMware VCF Head: Public Cloud Costs To Climb As AI Spending Soars
VMware’s Cloud Foundation (VCF) leader Krish Prasad warned that massive AI‑focused investments by AWS, Microsoft and Google will push public‑cloud pricing higher. He highlighted that VCF 9 can deliver a 1‑2× total‑cost‑of‑ownership advantage over the leading public clouds while alleviating memory...