Voting in Round 1 of CRN Channel Madness continued throughout the weekend. A few executives gained ground and some lost their leads. Here's a look at where the match-ups stand.

Cisco is once again selling the enterprise all-flash array that it pitches as a performance booster for UCS servers and apps running on them, but partners say the product's reputation has suffered.

Round 1 of CRN Channel Madness opened yesterday and after one day of voting, here's a look at where the match-ups stand.

The research firm NPD Group has unveiled the top 10 access point brands of 2014, with Cisco Systems leaps and bounds ahead of the pack, accounting for nearly 60 percent of total AP units sold last year.

CRN has confirmed that Raju Datla, who had led Cisco's UCS software division, is no longer with the company.

Former Cisco exec Paul Perez will take Dell's enterprise CTO spot in what partners say is a huge win for Dell's enterprise push.

Cisco confirms Wednesday that Paul Perez, a leading force behind Cisco's successful UCS, has left the company.

CRN's first-ever Channel Madness Tournament Of Chiefs kicks off Thursday, with Round 1 pitting a handful of channel stalwarts against the top channel execs at some of the industry's hottest young companies.

Partners can generate new recurring revenue streams with Cisco Spark, a cloud-based application that creates secure, virtual rooms where teams and people can connect from anywhere via any device.

The company, whose flagship SaaS offering automates the time-consuming process of moving workloads from one cloud to another, now has a powerful distributor hawking its wares through channel partners.

VCE's new VxBlocks will offer a choice when it comes to software-defined networking: Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure or VMware's NSX.

The two tech giants deepen their existing relationship with the new Cisco Cloud Architecture for the Microsoft Cloud Platform, which integrates Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure with Microsoft's Windows Azure Pack.

Cisco's Raja Sundaram maps out the plan for managed services in 2015.

The red-hot startup SimpliVity revealed on Tuesday it raised $175 million in a series D funding round that the company says it will use to transform the midmarket through its channel partners.

On the heels of the news that Hewlett-Packard will acquire Aruba Networks, Aruba launches a new series of cloud services controllers that is a serious competitor to Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi products, say partners and analysts.

Solution providers are saying customers are becoming more and more wary about their security, and Cisco's new partnership with ZixCorp will help partners have a solution to address that concern.

Cisco's domination of the networking switching market continued in 2014, according to data from the NPD Group.

HP partners say the company's acquisition is a major blow to Cisco, but Cisco partners are not feeling the heat.

Solution providers say they expect HP's game-changing acquisition of Aruba to lead to share gains for HP against networking leader Cisco.

SolidFire used this week's annual analyst conference to unveil SolidFire Element X, a program that allows certain hyper-scale and service provider companies to build their own all-flash arrays, and to guarantee the upgradability and flash endurance of its arrays.