Month: August 2016

Managed Services

Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition adds virtual appliance option

August 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition adds virtual appliance option
Intronis MSPs who want a virtual appliance can now leverage the virtual appliance technology from Barracuda to obtain it.

Dean LaRiviere, general manager for collaboration at Cisco Canada
Cloud

Talking collaboration with Cisco Canada’s Dean LaRiviere [Podcast]

August 2, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Talking collaboration with Cisco Canada’s Dean LaRiviere [Podcast]
Cisco Canada collaboration GM Dean LaRiviere chats about the increasingly cloudy nature of collaboration and what it means for Cisco and its partners.

Channel Communities

IT industry must redefine how it sells itself to youth: CompTIA

August 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on IT industry must redefine how it sells itself to youth: CompTIA
At its ChannelCon event, CompTIA reported results of research it commissioned on why the tech industry is increasingly failing to recruit suitable numbers of young players. Those findings indicated the industry has been using completely ineffective strategies, and needs to work on coming up with a different approach.

Cloud

Artisan Infrastructure gets new name (Neverfail) new WaaS acquisition (Vertiscale)

August 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Artisan Infrastructure gets new name (Neverfail) new WaaS acquisition (Vertiscale)
Artisan Infrastucture’s broadening beyond its original wholesale infrastructure-as-a-service necessitated a new name change, particularly with more new offerings on the roadmap.