D&J Distributing is expanding its enterprise push with Dell, adding the vendor’s full storage portfolio to its offerings. This will give VARs a new option for Dell’s full enterprise portfolio as Dell winds down its Arrow ECS relationship. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/33bf726r
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DXC Technology continues to expand its AI capabilities in the face of changing customer requirements, using itself as "customer zero," DXC Chairman/CEO Raul Fernandez told financial analysts. He also introduced three new top execs. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/zbaxecun
ServiceNow Chairman/CEO Bill McDermott said the company plans to expand its total addressable market with AI-native products. Channel partners said they look forward to working with what McDermott termed the "Fortune 500,000." Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/cyy9vmnh
AI work platform and project management software developer Monday.com is laying off about 20% of its workforce, and is looking to assure investors and employees that the layoffs are not stemming from its own use of AI. Details @CRN tinyurl.com/y3srxhd7
ServiceNow Chair/CEO Bill McDermott said during his remarks at the company's 2Q26 financial call that it plans to expand its total addressable market with AI-native products, targeting "Fortune 500,000" businesses. This is pretty big news. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/cyy9vmnh
CEO Lip-Bu Tan said at Intel's 2Q26 earnings call the chipmaker is improving execution, manufacturing, and operations as it looks to capitalize on demand for x86 processors, AI infrastructure, advanced packaging, & foundry services. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mus4taae
NetApp bought AI infrastructure startup DataPelago to add GPU/CPU-accelerated data processing to its storage portfolio. One top NetApp channel partner said this could help human and machine users more easily find and use data for AI workloads. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3nfh4f6k
‘CDW recently made organizational changes—which included coworker reductions—to sharpen our operating discipline and reinvest in the highest-return, highest-growth opportunities, including focusing our resources ...,’ CDW confirmed. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdz5cvmn
Arrow Electronics CEO William “Bill” Austen said the end of the distribution agreement between @Dell and the Arrow ECS distribution unit will not have a material impact on the 2026 or 2027 financial results of the $30.9B company. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mvpcayty
Mission Cloud’s Ted Stuart tells @crndotcom.bsky.social that the CDW-owned AWS practice is expanding AI offerings that help clients move beyond failed POCs toward production-ready projects, business alignment and deeper agentic AI-powered migration assessments. tinyurl.com/y2xy4nst
TCS' recently-introduced SAP-focused Crystallus services aim to speed digital transformation and AI-enabled enterprise software deployments by leveraging preconfigured industry solutions, SAP expertise, and multi-vendor integration. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/pc8868z9
Accenture has confirmed an isolated data breach after reports that a hacker called “888” claimed to be selling 35 GB of source code and credentials, but said it remediated the source with no operational or service-delivery impact. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/7m3bxx5w
Accenture worked w/ ServiceNow to launch AI-powered managed security services to help clients migrate from legacy tools, manage third-party and operational tech risks, accelerate compliance, and deliver cybersecurity services. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/jcdpsv7k
AI startup EvoChip says its new AltiCore software cuts power requirements and costs while boosting performance of AI inferencing by orders of magnitude to enable lower-cost, GPU-free AI deployments on laptops, servers, and microcontrollers. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/cncamsh8
Just a month after disclosing a significant restructuring that would eliminate thousands of jobs, Cisco detailed plans to lay off nearly 500 employees in California, a large concentration of which are involved in software engineering. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/49czkb7x
TD Synnex CEO Patrick Zammit says strong channel and Hyve demand, AI-driven infrastructure spending, and recent vendor moves helped fuel the distributor's 31% revenue growth and create new opportunities for its HPE and Dell partners. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/32dj3bcd
Dell Technologies is ending its distribution relationship w/ Arrow Electronics' ECS as it re-evaluates its N. America go-to-market strategy, threatening a profitable biz for Arrow which was Dell’s 2025 North America Distributor of the Year. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/urwmfe5v
Centre Technologies' new investment from LightBay Capital is expected to accelerate growth for the Texas MSP, which has already made eight acquisitions since 2013 and has at least three more deals ready to close this year. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/8fyf56m5
CGI is standardizing on NetApp as it replaces about 10 PBs of multi-vendor U.S. data center storage. CGI is also expanding its services partnership with NetApp for joint enterprise data/storage customers including NetApp Keystone. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4twrf8pw
Cisco's planned WideField Security acquisition could give channel partners a stronger AI security story as customers grapple with securing agentic AI by expanding visibility, risk detection, and response across human and IT agents. Details @crndotcom.bsky.social tinyurl.com/54bcuuru