The Defense Department is opting to delay its final RFPs for the multi-billion Pentagon Cloud Contract based on the extensive interest the contract has garnered from tech companies and cloud giants.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has moved aggressively to transform the networking giant to a software- and subscription-focused company. Here are the major Cisco executive moves that have accompanied Robbins' push into the software-centric world.

Customers are buying a mix of cloud products and on premises equipment as "refresh" flourishes

Company plans to accelerate its big data platform-as-a-service development work and step up efforts to expand internationally.

AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson said that the carrier is focused on winning the battle over the DoJ for its pending $85.4 billion Time Warner deal, and pointed to other pending mergers as proof that providers are all headed down "the content path."

From grilling accessories and portable speakers, to tablets and smartphones for hitting the road, here's our list of top gadgets for the warm season.

Alison Gleeson is a more-than 20-year Cisco employee who started with the San Jose, Calif., company in 1996 as a regional sales manager and worked her way up through the company's commercial sales ranks.

"This absolutely represents the highest density product in our lineup today by a large margin," said Todd Brannon, director of product marketing for UCS, regarding the new UCS C4200.

Here are five key technology features inside Cisco's new UCS C4200 server chassis that Cisco partners need to know.

The born-in-the-cloud solution provider built automated solutions to help customers implement a CI/CD pipeline and rapidly deploy secure machine images on AWS and Azure

"[The federal sales ban] eliminates a perceived risk to the Nation's cybersecurity and, in so doing, has the secondary effect of foreclosing one small source of revenue for a large multinational corporation," a district court judge ruled Wednesday.

"We want to make sure we're treating our partners as an extension of the Extreme sales organization," said Bob Gault, the company's chief revenue and services officer.

Joji Tokunaga, President & CEO of Ricoh Americas and Glenn Laverty, SVP of Ricoh Americas Marketing and CEO of Ricoh Canada, spoke with CRN about what Ricoh needs to do to grow its business.

Walmart's ex-CEO Bill Simon slammed Amazon for using its cloud and ad revenues to bolster its so-called "meager" retail profits, and taking money away from big box rivals as a result, Simon said in an interview on Wednesday.

"The launch of our Trusted Identity platform provides a single foundation that spans the needs of our customers today and into the future, while our name change underscores a generational evolution in our strategy," said OneSpan CEO Scott Clements.

"The one thing that is clear is that Dell EMC's storage roadmap is changing; unfortunately for customers, which products will survive is uncertain," said HPE's CSO Phil Davis, in a blog post on Wednesday.

Ricoh Americas CEO said "a new product alone" is not going to help sales

Verteks Consulting CEO Don Gulling says anyone in the training business better get ready in CRNtv's C-Suite Spotlight.

Joram Borenstein, who most recently worked for NICE Actimize, will serve as general manager of Microsoft's enterprise cybersecurity group.

Value-added distributors are in many ways becoming more like broadline distributors, even as broadline distributors are becoming more like value-added distributors, ScanSource CEO Mike Baur told CRN.