CRN Virtualization News

The ride-sharing giant is preparing for an IPO next year and wants to hire VMware CFO Zane Rowe, who was previously EMC's CFO, to lead those efforts, according to a Bloomberg report.

"In the enterprise space, Cisco has a large installed base. We go in and completely eliminate the need for a Cisco hardware router," said CloudGenix CEO Kumar Ramachandran.

Sanjay Uppal tells CRN the pace at which enterprises are deploying SD-WAN is unprecedented in the history of the market, and is rivaled only by the cost savings driving the rapid adoption.

For the week ending April 13, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

No company experienced a leadership shake-up at a higher magnitude in March than Microsoft, but there were several other big personnel changes in the channel, including the departure of Dell Technologies' chief marketing officer and Insight's hiring of a Microsoft veteran.

Brian Madden, a renowned technologist, author and speaker, talks to CRN about why he ended an 18-month sabbatical to join VMware.

Looking three to five years ahead, Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey says the company's acquisition plans are focused on 'smart technologies, smaller teams.'

Stratoscale's Ariel Maislos has a simple message for partners: 'You cannot fight the cloud. What you want to do is be part of the solution and be able to provide value to your customers as they're transitioning to the cloud.'

Here are the 12 leaders, challenges and visionaries who made Gartner's first-ever Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.