Welcome to November!

Craig and Kevin welcome Lisa Citron, vice president of America channel sales at F5 Networks, to the coffeehouse. She talks about F5's recent acquisition of NGINX and what that's doing for the company's partner community. Beyond that, we learn about growth in F5's Unity+ Partner Program.

We also catch up with roving reporter Edward Gately, who just returned from Las Vegas and Splunk .conf, where he caught up with channel leader Brooke Cunningham to talk about the company's message to partners and the new products Splunk is rolling out for partners to sell.

Plus, Channel Evolution Europe, our inaugural event in the U.K., is just a month away. We offer a preview. And in an edition dedicated to rock 'n' roll, Kevin breaks out another one of his whimsical industry metaphors to compare the channel to the history of rock.