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.
In the debut edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca podcast, we preview HP Canada’s Americas Partner Conference with HP Canada chief John Cammalleri and industry analyst Michelle Warren, as well as talking cloud with Avnet’s Dan Allaby; discussing the state of partnering in 2011 from Amazon Consulting’s Beth Vanni; and catching up with new GFI Software sales chief Pat Hume.
HP reported a 10 percent decline in year-over-year revenues. Meanwhile, Lenovo is seeing sales increase as it expands into servers, storage and smartphones.