Month: October 2014

Gavin Struthers, senior vice president of global channel and indirect go-to-market operations at Intel Security.
Security

McAfee channel chief points partners towards services

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on McAfee channel chief points partners towards services
McAfee’s Gavin Struthers urges partners to double down on building out their own services, points to growing managed security services opportunities.

Phil Filippelli, vice president of eBusiness at Tech Data
Distribution

Tech Data’s full StreamOne coming to Canada

October 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data’s full StreamOne coming to Canada
Tech Data will bring its full StreamOne cloud, SaaS and app store to Canada in the next month as it continues to take the platform global.

Cloud

HDS announces three new cloud options

October 27, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HDS announces three new cloud options
The enhancements to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform which streamline and accelerate the process of building and managing cloud are the big news here for most HDS partners.

Joe Quaglia, president of the Americas for Tech Data
Distribution

Tech Data’s Quaglia: We’re the world’s biggest VAD

October 26, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data’s Quaglia: We’re the world’s biggest VAD
Tech Data Americas boss says core broadline business allows it to feed and grow its higher-margin value-added distribution business for the data centre.

Irene Buchan, director of marketing at Tech Data Canada
Channel Communities

TechSelect Canadian chapter looks to add more value

October 26, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on TechSelect Canadian chapter looks to add more value
Reseller group gets new Web site, new logo, new tools, and remembers a longtime TechSelect member at fall conference.

Cloud

Internet of Things has strong potential for Canadian MSPs: AVG

October 24, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Internet of Things has strong potential for Canadian MSPs: AVG
AVG’s commercial market strategy is now based around MSPs, who the company thinks are well positioned to handle the additional management tasks that the Internet of Things is bringing.

Servers

HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio

October 23, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on HP adds new cartridges to Moonshot portfolio
New Moonshot apps for application delivery, video transcoding, and a Web infrastructure-in-a-box solution for Web hosters, allow HP to target more custom markets with Moonshot.

Distribution

Disties hail resurgent PC market

October 22, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Disties hail resurgent PC market
Distributors Tech Data Canada, Ingram Micro Canada, and D&H Canada reflect on what has been a very strong year in the PC market in this country.

Security

McAfee trims prices, enhances partner margins on new SMB portfolio

October 22, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on McAfee trims prices, enhances partner margins on new SMB portfolio
McAfee has retooled its SMB offerings, with three new suites which feature McAfee’s next-generation anti-malware technology, which is being deployed for the first time in these solutions.

Dale Degen, senior worldwide marketing manager for HP Storage
Storage

HP, Intel seed market for software-defined storage

October 21, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP, Intel seed market for software-defined storage
HP is working with Intel to make 1 TB of StoreVirtual VSA storage available to all purchases of servers with Intel’s latest Xeon processors.