Channel Programs
Liveblog: Microsoft Canada Impact Awards
Live from Microsoft’s annual gala recognizing its top solution providers
Month: November 2011
Cloud
Cloud could represent data centre majority by 2014: Cisco study
Cisco’s inaugural Global Cloud Index predicts cloud traffic in the data centre will grow 7-fold, overall traffic grows one-third that rate
Software
Panel: Holiday discount-seekers inadvertently supporting counterfeiting
Microsoft study shows consumers aware of dangers of fake goods
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ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast: Softchoice chief on Unis Lumin buy
Dave MacDonald on the solution provider mega-merger, plus Lenovo’s view of BYOD, the Tech Data/ATTO deal, ChannelEyes preview and Microsoft Fair Play Day.
Channel Programs
QuickVid: New Cisco channel chief to drive partner technology evangelism
Ansley says enthusiastic channel key to Partner Led strategy for growth
Distribution
ATTO Technology signs on with Tech Data Canada
Storage and connectivity vendor looks to reach new group of VARs with distribution deal
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Wyse buys Montreal’s Trellia for mobile infrastructure management push
Mobile device management vendor looks to replicate Canadian success worldwide
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QuickVid: Lenovo’s van Duijl on business tablets
Is the vendor waiting on Windows 8 before betting big on tablets in the business world?
Managed Services
Competing with trunkslammer MSPs
Have you noticed a constriction of margins available on some managed services recently? In my first blog post for the excellent MSP Help Desk blog from GMS Live Expert, I address the growing concern of […]
Hardware
QuickVid: Lenovo’s protect and attack strategy
Mature markets chief Milko van Duijl on Lenovo’s growth and the server opportunity
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Two Toronto-area VTN members to merge
Quartet and KLM come together in a ‘deal made in the cloud’
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Trend Micro introduces new Canadian leader, new strategy
Security vendor moves info to the cloud, ramps up endpoint security for post-PC market
Distribution
Avnet sets course for Destination: Analytics
Program aims to build a channel for what IBM has described as its biggest opportunity
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ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast: HP and the cloud, Cisco Partner Led and much more
Five big interviews including live from TechSelect, Avaya Evolutions and Titus Partner Conference
Distribution
Synnex Canada plans busy 2012 rollout schedule
CloudSolv, RenewSolv and mobile app development on the agenda for Mitchell Martin
Channel Programs
RSA adds specializations, new tier to partner program
Specialized partners double margins on deal registration, new Authorized tier provides partner on-ramp
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Amer Networks looks to build channel on home front
Mississauga-based networking vendor searching a few partners who are ‘willing to be a little different’
Channel Communities
QuickVid: Synnex’s Stegner on $100m goal, Varnex in Canada
How Synnex will find the money, and whether to expect Canada-only Varnex events
Channel Programs
Brocade boosts partner perks, plans recruitment
Revised partner program lifts specialized partner margin incentives, introduces Service Provider track
Channel Communities
Synnex eyes $100 million in incremental margins for Varnex
Distributor looking to continue rapid growth of Canadian portion of reseller community