June 2015 – ChannelBuzz.ca

Ricoh Canada buys western Canadian VAR Graycon to accelerate managed IT services business

June 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Ricoh, which is building up its services business to offset a decline in print volumes, sees Graycon as providing new capabilities for them in the west. The company also suggested they would be interested in a similar acquisition in the east.

Quick Heal introduces loyalty program for enlisting successful channel partners

June 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The Quick Rewards program, which begins in Q3, gives partners who refer other partners to Quick Heal a reward of six per cent of their sales for the first year and four per cent for the second – giving Quick Heal a cost-effective way of enlarging their channel.

ScanSource beefs up mobile POS portfolio with new Star Micronics partnership

June 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Star’s strength in mobile printing in particular will enhance ScanSource’s ability to provide total POS and retail solutions to their reseller partners.

SolidFire adds specialization tiers to partner program

June 30, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Four specializations are being announced, one of which is around OpenStack, which SolidFire believes is an industry first. .

Condusiv V-locity 6.0 DRAM read caching enhancements triple performance

June 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Condusiv engineers redid the DRAM read caching algorithm so that DRAM, which is small but very fast, focuses only the smallest, random I/O that causes the most problems.

Acer brings first Chrome All-in-One desktop with touch display to Canada

June 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Acer Chromebase DC221HQ series, which is coming to market in Canada through Acer’s commercial channel, has both touch and non-touch display options.

Intronis stresses better user experience with Summer Release ‘15

June 26, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

A new dashboard provides a macro-level view that did not exist before, and a new Executive Summary report generator provides customers with brandable and customizable snapshots which demonstrate the MSP’s value.

VMware Canada country manager Sean Forkan

Veritas Canadian leadership team for post-Symantec divorce now in place

June 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Symantec’s Canadian GM, Sean Forkan, moves over to run Veritas in Canada – as well as the central U.S. Two other Symantec Canada execs join him in the move. All three are currently in their new roles, even though the two companies are still one. The new post-split leadership for Symantec in Canada has also been announced.