CRN's second annual Channel Madness Tournament of Chiefs begins with 32 of the industry's most influential channel executives and ends with one. Prepare to choose your chief.

NetApp's new channel rules of engagement, along with an emphasis on its fast-growing flash storage and converged infrastructure business, are aimed at helping the company leverage its channel partners to grow its business.

Reminiscing about a rappin' CEO, a story about a shoeshine from an airline owner, sipping morning cocktails and hanging out at a hippie blowout. CRN captured some of the memorable moments and off-the-wall happenings onstage and behind the scenes at this year's Cisco Partner Summit in San Diego.

'There's a fantastic opportunity' for Cisco and its partners, said Zorawar Biri Singh of Cisco's vision to build a container-friendly stack, among other technology goals for the networking giant.

Cisco continues to pull farther ahead in its race for collaboration market share against rival Microsoft, says Synergy Research Group.

Cisco's move to boost its Cisco Spark business collaboration service comes as new research shows its lead in collaboration market share growing.

Less than 9 months after Hewlett-Packard acquired Aruba Networks, the combined company reveals a slew of new integrated networking products.

SimpliVity, the No. 2 startup in the hyper-converged infrastructure market, brings in experienced former sales leaders from Cisco as it faces increased competition from the networking giant.

Cisco plans to transform the security marketplace with a holistic approach, saying competitors can no longer effectively compete with the networking leader.

Cisco's Americas channel chief talked about the new Cisco Ready For Partner Account Planning tool, which will soon be released to the channel, at the Cisco Partner Summit.

Cisco this week launched its own hyper-converged offering based on a partnership and investment in Springpath, but sources said that's only after making unsuccessful bids for Nutanix and SimpliVity.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins took questions at the 2016 Cisco Partner Summit and sounded off on Nutanix, the channel takeaway from Partner Summit and the difference between himself and former CEO John Chambers.

The security industry can't win unless it embraces the next generation of analytics-based solutions, Cisco's Martin Roesch and HPE's Martin Fink stressed in their keynotes at the RSA Conference.

Cisco is significantly changing its enterprise networking model from hardware to a software, service-centric approach with the launch of its new Digital Network Architecture (DNA) unveiled at Cisco Partner Summit 2016.

Cisco is offering channel partners an array of professional services with the launch of its new service-centric Digital Network Architecture. Here are 10 ways to make money springing from DNA.

Cisco is acquiring networking chip designer Leaba Semiconductor for $320 million, a move channel partners say will give Cisco a competitive advantage in research and development.

Cisco channel chief Wendy Bahr unveiled at Cisco Partner Summit 2016 the next evolution of the company's channel partner strategy with the launch of new software roles, digital marketing services and a simplification of its VIP program.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has heard startup Nutanix's trash talk about his new hyper-converged infrastructure offering, but insists Cisco has had a good track record when making big bets on new technology.

Hyper-convergence startup Nutanix has responded to Cisco's entry to its turf, pointing out that Cisco has a checkered past when it comes to entering new technology markets.

Cisco may be late to the red-hot hyper-convergence market, but now it's in the game with a new partnership with startup Springpath and an offering it says is the fastest out there.