CRN's 2016 Tech Year In Review

CRN looks back at the biggest news stories of 2016 in the technology industry and throughout the IT channel.

2016 will be remembered as a year of innovation in corporate IT, with container, machine learning, hyper-converged and Internet of Things technologies all bleeding into the enterprise mainstream. Forward-looking solution providers were able to reap the innovation rewards this year, modernizing election campaign strategies with new big data capabilities and super-charging the IoT market with vertical market expertise and managed services savviness.

Private equity firms continued to pump money into the channel, most recently with KKR & Co. unveiling plans to acquire a majority stake in Optiv Security.

In it's first bomb-drop as an independent company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise said it would spin off its Enterprise Services business and combine it with CSC to create the third largest solution provider in the world.

And the biggest deal in tech history, Dell's $67 billion purchase of EMC, became official in September.

Take a trip down memory lane with CRN as we look back at the high-profile executive moves, controversial companies, credibility-destroying data breaches and everything else that impacted the channel in 2016.

The Biggest News Of 2016

• The 10 Biggest Tech Mergers And Acquisitions Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Channel Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Networking Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Cloud Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Managed Services Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Storage Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Internet Of Things Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Security Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Telco Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Data Center Stories Of 2016
• 10 Cybersecurity Lessons Learned In 2016
• The 10 Biggest Cloud Outages of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Data Breaches Of 2016
• The 25 Blockbuster Channel Executive Moves Of 2016
• The 10 Most Important Tech Partnerships Of 2016
• The 25 Blockbuster IT Executive Moves Of 2016

The Coolest Startups Of 2016

• The 10 Coolest Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Cloud Development Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Security Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Internet Of Things Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Cloud Application Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Cloud Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Networking Startups Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Big Data Startups Of 2016

The Biggest Vendor Stories Of 2016

• The Top 10 HP Inc. Stories of The Year
• The 10 Biggest Dell EMC Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Most Controversial Companies Of 2016
• The Top 10 HPE Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Cisco Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Microsoft Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest AWS Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Apple Stories Of 2016
• The 10 Biggest Google Stories Of 2016

The Coolest Products Of 2016

• The 10 Coolest Wearables Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest SDN Technologies Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest IoT Products Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Laptops Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Processors Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Smartphones Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Tablets Of 2016
• The 10 Coolest Apps Of 2016