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 clients implement Lakehouse, Lakebase, Unity Catalog, Genie conversational AI and Agent Bricks tools across multiple clouds. The partnership builds on a seven‑year Global SI Partner award streak and follows Databricks' recent launch of Genie Code and acquisition of Quotient AI. Databricks now reports a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, up 65% YoY.
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...
EchoStor Acquired Pennant Networks In Big Life Sciences Managed Services Play
EchoStor Technologies announced the completion of its acquisition of Pennant Networks, a boutique managed‑services provider focused on the regulated life‑sciences sector. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, gives EchoStor immediate expertise in FDA‑heavy environments and expands its service...
Why AI’s Next Wave Runs Through The Channel: ‘MSPs Already Live There’
Managed service providers (MSPs) are emerging as the primary conduit for AI adoption in small and midsize businesses (SMBs), shifting AI from an optional add‑on to a core offering. Executives like Joel Abramson and Tim Guim note that MSPs already...
Top 5 New Broadcom-VMware Products In 2026: Chips, Wi-Fi 8 And Cloud Platform
Broadcom and VMware unveiled five major products in 2026, including the VMware Telco Cloud Platform 9, a private‑cloud solution for telco operators, and a unified Wi‑Fi 8 platform built around the BCM4918 APU. The hardware lineup adds the BroadPeak integrated radio DFE...
ITPartners Expands Northeast Footprint With ASG 365 Acquisition: Exclusive
ITPartners announced the acquisition of Buffalo‑based ASG 365, expanding its managed‑service‑provider (MSP) network into the Northeast. The deal, backed by the firm’s recent $30 million funding round, gives ASG 365 access to broader cybersecurity, planning and engineering resources. ITPartners is pursuing a collaborative...
AWS Innovator Caylent Selects New CEO To Drive Agentic AI, Customer ROI
Caylent, an AWS Premier Services partner and AI innovator, has appointed Valerie Henderson as its new CEO. Henderson, who previously served as president and CRO, aims to transform Caylent into an AI‑first, agentic delivery powerhouse. The firm plans to embed...
AI Networking Startup Eridu Steps Out Of Stealth With More Than $200M In Funding
Eridu, a Saratoga‑based AI networking startup, emerged from stealth with an oversubscribed Series A that raised more than $200 million. The company claims its clean‑sheet switch architecture can cut latency, reduce data‑center power use by up to 70%, and lower capital expenditures...
HPE CEO Antonio Neri: ‘Elevated’ Memory Prices To ‘Persist Well Into 2027’
HPE CEO Antonio Neri warned that soaring DRAM and NAND costs will keep server memory prices elevated through 2027. The memory components now represent more than half of a traditional server’s bill of materials and that share is rising. HPE...
Ericsson US Unit Reports Data Breach Tied To Third-Party Service Provider
Ericsson’s U.S. subsidiary reported a data breach that originated from an unnamed third‑party service provider, affecting a limited set of employee and customer files between April 17‑22 2025. The compromised data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial and medical...
Google AI Star Cloudsufi On Building AI Factories And ‘Poison’ Internet Data
Cloudsufi, a Google Cloud Premier partner, is shifting from traditional services to building large‑scale AI and data “factories,” securing multimillion‑dollar contracts. CEO Irfan Khan says each AI factory deal ranges from $5 million to $10 million, and the company posted 70 % sales...
Climb Global Solutions’ Interworks.cloud Deal Beefs Up European Footprint And ‘Fills A Gap We’ve Had For A Couple Years’: CEO
Climb Global Solutions announced the acquisition of Greek cloud distributor Interworks.cloud for roughly $9.4 million, adding over 600 managed service providers to its platform and extending its footprint into southeastern Europe. The deal fills a long‑standing gap in Climb’s cloud marketplace...
Quantiphi Acquires Human-Centered Design Superstar Candyspace, Powering New Era Of AI Agent Applications
Quantiphi announced the acquisition of London‑based digital product agency Candyspace, a firm renowned for human‑centered design and front‑end engineering. The deal adds roughly 90 designers to Quantiphi’s AI engineering roster, enabling the company to deliver end‑to‑end AI agent applications with...
International Women’s Day 2026: 6 Top Tech Leaders On Investment Plans, AI, And The Keys To Success For Channel Partners
On International Women’s Day 2026, six leading women tech CEOs outlined how AI and massive infrastructure investments will shape the coming year. AMD plans rack‑scale AI hardware to meet a projected 100‑fold rise in compute demand, while Liongard, Trend Micro,...
ThreatLocker CEO On How Zero Trust Expansion Makes It ‘Much Harder’ To Get Hacked
ThreatLocker announced that its deny‑by‑default security model now covers cloud workloads and mobile devices, extending its zero‑trust network and cloud‑access offerings. The new solution binds SaaS access to both user identity and approved devices, eliminating the need for VPNs and...
Nasuni Adds High-Performance File Synchronization Capabilities To Its Tech Portfolio With Acquisition
Nasuni announced the acquisition of Resilio, a developer of high‑performance file synchronization and edge‑acceleration technology. The deal, terms undisclosed, integrates Resilio’s Active Everywhere platform with Nasuni’s cloud‑native file services to create a unified solution for rapid file access across distributed...
Nvidia Global AI And DGX VP Hired By Google To Lead AI Infrastructure
Matthew Hull, former Nvidia Global AI Solutions VP, has joined Google as Vice President of AI Infrastructure Go‑to‑Market. Hull spent eight years at Nvidia, overseeing DGX platform sales, financial solutions, and data‑center partnerships. His move comes as Nvidia reported a...
CrowdStrike ‘Turbo Charging’ Security Platform Growth With Falcon Flex: CEO George Kurtz
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Flex subscription model propelled its ARR related to Flex deals 120% year‑over‑year to $1.69 billion, contributing to a total ARR of $5.25 billion for fiscal 2026. The company’s managed‑service‑provider (MSSP) channel surged past $1.3 billion, up from under $100 million three years earlier....
Monjur Introduces Monjur Pilot AI-Powered Legal Assistant For MSPs
Monjur, a Texas‑based legal‑tech firm, launched Monjur Pilot, an AI‑powered legal assistant designed for managed service providers (MSPs). The solution combines large language models with a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) framework and a proprietary confidence‑scoring system to answer contract questions, redline...
New Databricks Offering Targets Next-Generation Data Streaming
Databricks launched Zerobus Ingest, a fully managed serverless streaming service that moves data directly into Delta Lake tables. The platform streams data from sources such as manufacturing systems, financial trading apps, IoT devices, and cybersecurity tools. It promises sub‑five‑second latency,...
Intel Foundry Services Head Leaves For Qualcomm Supply Chain Post
Intel has announced that Kevin O'Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of Intel Foundry Services, will leave to become Qualcomm’s vice president of global operations and supply chain. O'Buckley, who joined Intel in May 2024, was the third leader...
Versa Launches Sovereign SASE-As-A-Service As ‘Something New’ In Partners’ Toolkits
Versa has introduced the world’s first sovereign SASE‑as‑a‑Service, extending its earlier sovereign SASE model to a fully managed, in‑country offering. The service provides local control, management, and storage to satisfy data‑residency regulations such as the U.S. CLOUD Act. Versa reports...
AMD Commits $250M To Nutanix To Accelerate Enterprise Agentic AI Infrastructure
AMD announced a $250 million strategic partnership with Nutanix, buying $150 million of Nutanix common stock and committing up to $100 million for joint R&D and go‑to‑market efforts. The collaboration will integrate Nutanix’s Cloud and Kubernetes platforms with AMD’s EPYC CPUs, Instinct GPUs,...
Google Unveils Two New US Data Centers As $185 Billion Commitment Gets Underway
Google announced the construction of two new data centers—one in Wilbarger County, Texas, and another in Pine Island, Minnesota—as part of a $185 billion capital‑expenditure plan for 2026. The Texas site will employ advanced air‑cooling technology and partner with AES Corp....
Intel Inks ‘Multiyear’ AI Inference Deal With SambaNova After Acquisition Talks End
Intel has forged a multiyear strategic partnership with AI‑chip startup SambaNova after acquisition talks stalled, coupling Intel Capital’s $350 million Series E investment with access to Intel’s global enterprise, cloud and partner channels. The deal coincides with the launch of SambaNova’s SN50...
Arctic Wolf Doubles Down On Exposure Management With Sevco Acquisition
Arctic Wolf announced the acquisition of Sevco Security, a cloud‑native exposure‑management startup, to deepen its proactive cyber‑defense capabilities. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, will embed Sevco’s vulnerability‑context technology into the Aurora platform, unifying asset intelligence with exposure...
Myriad360 Acquires Advizex, Creating $900M Nvidia AI Platform Powerhouse
Myriad360 announced the acquisition of AI infrastructure specialist Advizex, creating a combined entity with $900 million in annual run‑rate gross revenue. The deal merges Myriad360’s InfiniBand networking expertise with Advizex’s Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake as‑a‑service capabilities, forming a global Nvidia...
Liminal Expands To MSPs With Secure, Multi-Model AI Platform
Liminal, previously focused on enterprise customers, is extending its secure, multi‑model AI platform to managed service providers (MSPs) targeting small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs). The platform consolidates access to leading large language models—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity—while sanitizing sensitive...
5 Things To Know On Anthropic’s Claude Code Security
Anthropic announced that its Claude Code platform will now include Claude Code Security, an AI‑driven vulnerability‑scanning feature that reads and reasons about code like a human researcher. The tool, launched in a limited research preview, aims to uncover complex issues...
Cynet’s MacKenzie Brown: ‘MSPs Don’t Need Drama. They Need Clarity And Process.’
Cynet has hired MacKenzie Brown as Vice President of Threat Intelligence Strategy to turn the vendor’s global telemetry into a practical, operational threat‑intelligence system for managed service providers (MSPs). Brown emphasizes moving beyond generic monthly reports toward actionable, tactical intel...
Exclusive: Qualcomm Hires AMD PC Exec To Lead Global Compute Sales
Qualcomm has hired longtime AMD executive Jason Banta as vice president of global compute sales to spearhead its Snapdragon X Series push in PCs. Banta, who led AMD’s client OEM business and helped the company secure record CPU share, replaces...
Analysis: Palo Alto Networks Vs. Everyone
Palo Alto Networks marked the two‑year anniversary of its platformization strategy, a move that initially sank its stock but has since become an industry standard. CEO Nikesh Arora highlighted a “flywheel” effect as new customers consolidate tools onto Palo Alto’s...
Net At Work Continues To Scale With OnPar Acquisition
Net at Work, a New York‑based MSP and solution provider, announced the acquisition of OnPar Technologies, its latest deal in a series of roughly 40 acquisitions over three decades. The deal brings a culturally aligned team operating in the same...
Intel Turns To Microsoft’s Copilot Studio For Partner Support After Dialing Back Phone Use
Intel is launching "Ask Intel," an AI‑driven virtual assistant built on Microsoft’s Copilot Studio, to handle customer and partner support after scaling back phone and social‑media channels. The assistant can open cases, verify warranties and route complex issues to human...
Snowflake CEO: ‘I’m Not In The Business Of Selling AI. I’m In The Business Of Creating Value.’
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy told CRN that the company’s focus is on creating customer value, not merely selling AI. He highlighted the rapid expansion of Snowflake’s partner ecosystem to more than 14,200 global partners, a 22% year‑over‑year increase. Ramaswamy emphasized...
Snowflake Partners: AI’s Impact Can Withstand A Potential Bubble
Snowflake’s ecosystem of solution partners says AI’s impact will endure despite concerns of a bubble. Executives from BlueCloud, RiskSpan, Viewnear and Slalom stress that solid data foundations and cost‑driven efficiencies are essential for sustainable AI adoption. They note a shift...
Outcome-Based Business Models Gain Traction In The Channel As A Way To Navigate AI Economics
Solution providers are abandoning hourly billing in favor of outcome‑based models as AI automation turns software development into a commodity. Eduardo Ramos founded Viewnear to align pricing with measurable client results, leveraging Snowflake’s data platform and AI tools. RiskSpan and...
‘The Future Is About Fixing Business Problems:’ New Charter CEO On AI‑Native MSP Strategy
New Charter Technologies is reshaping the managed services provider (MSP) model by embedding AI into its core operations, turning reactive support into automated, self‑healing processes. The company recently hired Microsoft veteran Michelle Curtis as chief revenue officer to drive a...
The 20 Coolest Security Operations, Risk And Threat Intelligence Companies Of 2026: The Security 100
CRN’s Security 100 list spotlights 20 security‑operations, risk and threat‑intelligence vendors that distinguished themselves in 2026. The roundup underscores a rapid shift toward AI‑driven, agentic SOC solutions that automate triage, investigation and response. Companies such as 7AI, Arctic Wolf, Google Cloud and...
The 2026 Security 100
AI has become the baseline for security vendors in 2026, with advanced generative AI and agentic features now considered essential rather than differentiators. Leaders like MicroAge note that clients increasingly expect AI‑enhanced upgrades across their security stacks. As large language...
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire ‘Agentic Endpoint’ Security Startup Koi
Palo Alto Networks announced it will acquire AI‑agent security startup Koi, a move aimed at strengthening visibility and protection for AI‑driven workloads on endpoint devices. While the purchase price was not disclosed, a prior report suggested a $400 million valuation. Koi’s...
Proofpoint Boosts Deal Protection, Profitability With Launch Of New Partner Program
Proofpoint announced an updated Partner Network that tightens deal registration protection, introduces backend rebates for new customer wins, and adds growth‑target incentives and renewal bonuses. The program is designed to drive consolidation on Proofpoint’s email, data security, and AI‑powered threat...
Logicalis Acquires Maple Woods Enterprises For Advanced Cybersecurity
Logicalis, the UK‑based managed‑services provider, has acquired Ohio cyber‑security specialist Maple Woods Enterprises, adding the Overwatch continuous‑compliance platform to its portfolio. The deal, terms undisclosed, aims to deepen governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) capabilities across multiple frameworks such as CMMC....