CRN Virtualization News

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.

The updates, known as HyperFlex 3.0, are the most significant Cisco has made to its hyper-convergence platform, and are aimed squarely at the multi-cloud market.

Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready talks to CRN about beating the hyper-converged infrastructure competition and how 'bad things could happen' when applying Spectre and Meltdown patches.

Nutanix channel leader Bob Wallace talks to CRN about new trainings and tools available for partners in 2018 as well as what the channel can expect as the company transitions into a pure software company.