Dylan Martin

Ernst's abrupt exit is one of many changes, including recent channel-related job cuts, that Intel's global sales organization—renamed under Tan to the Sales Management Group to retain its long-held “SMG” initials—has endured over the past several years as top leaders attempt to turn around the company.

At this week’s OCP Global Summit, new details emerged on Intel’s upcoming data center GPU and a new kind of AMD EPYC CPU while Nvidia made big open-source software moves.

Chris Kapusta, an executive at Softcat-owned GDT, explains how Nvidia's AI financing boom can benefit the channel, but says solution providers, including

With a recent GTIA survey finding that many MSP customers haven’t adopted “very basic” security measures such as multifactor authentication, a spokesperson for the trade association said talking about the risks posed by AI can get things moving.

Two MSP leaders said on a Tuesday XChange NexGen panel that their customers expect to use AI to cut jobs, which they don’t think is a realistic goal.

5K Technical Services CEO Corey Kirkendoll explained in an XChange NexGen 2026 presentation how MSPs should take a proactive, ‘no-blame’ approach to helping customers use AI tools in a safe and secure manner.

Leaders at MSP vendors ranging from Slide to WatchGuard discussed how AI is creating new opportunities and fresh risks for the channel at the XChange NexGen 2026 conference on Monday.

Executives at Phalanx Technology Group, Xperteks, Troinet, JMXi, Four Winds IT, Critical IT Solutions and Geeks-r-Us shared how shadow AI is creating opportunities around AI discovery, governance, security and customer education.

Here are 6 industry experts on how MSPs can build a stronger AI security practice.

Some of the hottest MSP products on display at XChange NexGen 2026 were pitched as ways to monitor, govern and secure customer AI use or to reduce manual tasks for security and legal work.