Month: October 2014

Cloud

Canadian C-levels clueless on cloud?

October 31, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian C-levels clueless on cloud?
A new survey commissioned by Microsoft found under 5 per cent of Canadian C level execs understand what the cloud is, but the reality is somewhat different.

Matt Fox, senior director of education services, Avnet Services, Americas
Sponsored Content

What ever happened to that great vision?

October 31, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off on What ever happened to that great vision?
Matt Fox of Avnet Services illustrates how solution providers benefit from making sure customers are fully enabled on the solutions they sell.

Mobility

Lenovo acquisition of Motorola finally done

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo acquisition of Motorola finally done
The completion of the acquisition of Motorola Mobility will allow Lenovo to provide North American partners with smartphones for the first time. But don’t look for them to provide BlackBerry devices any time soon.

Operating Systems

Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions

October 30, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage joins OpenStack Foundation, announces two OpenStack solutions
Pure sees OpenStack as providing a great services opportunity to help customers adapt OpenStack for private clouds, since it is necessary to help them adapt OpenStack to different customer circumstances.

Cisco Business Edition 6000
Communications

How do your know when a customer is ready for the Cisco Business Edition 6000?

October 29, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off on How do your know when a customer is ready for the Cisco Business Edition 6000?
Cisco Canada’s Garth Scully offers a guide to help find the right customer for the company’s Business Edition 6000 communications package.

Storage

Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market

October 29, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Skyera brings second generation of dense skyHawk flash array to market
In addition to being lightweight and energy efficient, the new skyhawk FS offers price parity with HDD systems “without tricks”, at $2.99 per GB.

Michael Fey, CTO of Intel Security
Security

Intel Security CTO: Partners have to understand customer limitations

October 28, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel Security CTO: Partners have to understand customer limitations
Intel Security CTO Mike Fey says partners who can work around customers’ infrastructure and budget limitations will prosper, urges upsale model.

Renee James, president of Intel
Security

Intel Security brass calls for greater solutions focus

October 28, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel Security brass calls for greater solutions focus
Intel Security leaders say the company has done a good job in integrating products together into solutions, but there’s still a long way to go.

Unified Communications

Unify brings Project Ansible to market as Circuit SaaS collaboration tool

October 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unify brings Project Ansible to market as Circuit SaaS collaboration tool
Circuit brings together voice, video, screen sharing, messaging, and file sharing within a single interface, with extreme simplicity of use.

Lisa Matherly, vice president of worldwide partner programs, marketing, and operations at Intel Security
Channel Programs

Intel Security renames, revamps McAfee Partner Program

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Intel Security renames, revamps McAfee Partner Program
McAfee rebrands partner program under the Intel Security name, announces new names for partner tiers and evolving certification and training requirements.