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 over the last few weeks.

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

In addition, we take a look at the following:

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

Catch the podcast after the jump, or subscribe via iTunes.

 

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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.