ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast Episode 3: Cisco’s Partner Advisor

Todd Madgett - Cisco

The ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast is back for its third edition, looking at some of the biggest stories in the Canadian IT channel over the last few weeks.

Joining us off the top is Cisco Canada’s SMB chief Tod Madgett to discuss a new program from the networking giant, Partner Advisor, that allows small business-focused solution providers to get access to some of the onboarding and usually available to only its managed partner base.

In addition, we take a look at the following:

  • Dave Miketinac, Dell Canada’s new SMB chief, talks about his new role and the changes made to PartnerDirect;
  • No Panic Computing’s and discuss notebooks-as-a-service on the heels of Google’s introduction of the ;
  • Patti Smith, national channel manager at Panda Canada, addresses the company’s new ; and
  • Michelle Warren of joins us to round up a number of technology stories, including Microsoft and Skype, Cisco’s pending reorganization, and the declining PC market.

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Robert Dutt is the founder and head blogger at ChannelBuzz.ca. He has been covering the Canadian solution provider channel community for a variety of publications and Web sites since 1997.