Top 20 Stories in March: Microsoft Partners, IBM, Cisco, AWS Relationships

March roared in like a lion, and so did our top stories for the month. Big hardware, networking, software and cloud giants make their presences felt in our monthly countdown; notably, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and AWS for a whole host of reasons.

For instance, one study actually found that Microsoft Azure has surpassed AWS in the could wars. But you won’t find that result everywhere. And speaking of studies, another put Cisco atop the rankings in SD-WAN, one of the channel’s hottest technologies.

But those of you more accustomed to the traditional telecom channel weren’t left out. If you’ve been coming to our channel events for a number of years, you enjoyed seeing this retrospective image gallery. (Perhaps it even inspired you to register for the Channel Partners Conference & Expo, April 11-14.)

For the second month in a row, our prestigious list of channel leaders – our top 50 Channel Influencers – made the countdown.

We determined the top stories in March by tallying online pageviews and the most popular articles in our weekly newsletter. (You can sign up for that here.)

Look no further than our slideshow above for which story was No. 1 in March. Want more nostalgia? Take a look at our top 20 from February.