(For more on the 'coolest' of 2017, check out ' CRN's Tech Midyear In Review. What do you think have been the biggest IT industry news stories of 2017 so far? Take a look at our list, concluding with the most important story, and see if you agree. Widespread Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud outages, SSD component shortages and massive ransomware attacks disrupted wide swaths of the industry in the first six months of the year.Īnd then there were the big-picture stories, the trends sweeping the industry, led by the efforts by just about every vendor and solution provider to get positioned for the coming Internet of Things revolution. Not all the big news stories were deliberate events. 15, 2017, Leonardos da Vincis 'Salvator Mundi' sold for a world-record 450 million in a Christies New York auction. In some cases the news wasn't the acquisition itself but the aftermath, as with the launch of the Dell EMC partner program after Dell's $65 billion acquisition of EMC last year. That included the merger of CSC with Hewlett Packard Enterprise's enterprise services business, HPE's acquisitions of SimpliVity and other companies, and Verizon's buyout (finally) of Yahoo. It's been an eventful six months in the IT industry and the channel – but then, isn't it always?Īs is often the case, acquisitions, mergers and divestitures accounted for some of the biggest news stories in the first half of the year.

The various reasons for the rising epidemic also made news in 2017. President Trump Removes Subsidies from Obamacare. Harvey Weinstein Faces Various Accusations.

By David Mills Updated on January 1, 2018. Stories that spread through social media, but the impact was felt much beyond the World Wide Web. Here are the world news events you need to know so far for October 2017: Shooting in Las Vegas Becomes Americas Deadliest.

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