Year: 2016

Sponsored Content

Making sense of projector color performance [white paper]

October 3, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Making sense of projector color performance [white paper]
In this white paper from Epson, Dr. Abhay Sharma explores the difference between color technologies in projectors.

Storage

Komprise looks to channel to drive analytics-focused data management solution

October 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise looks to channel to drive analytics-focused data management solution
Komprise is just beginning to establish itself in Canada, and is seeing interest from significant customers. They sell entirely through partners, and are looking to recruit some strong ones in Canada.

Networking

Masergy sees new markets strong channel opportunities in managed SD-WAN offering

October 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Masergy sees new markets strong channel opportunities in managed SD-WAN offering
Masergy also believes that managed SD-WAN will be a particularly strong opportunity for their channel partners.

Data Centre

NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.

Managed Services

Avast to embrace AVG for Business non-freemium model as acquisition closes

September 30, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avast to embrace AVG for Business non-freemium model as acquisition closes
Avast also stresses its commitment to AVG’s RMM business, and indicates that while the goal is to expand the number of resellers, they will also be rationalizing the product line.

Distribution

NetApp rebounds strongly in Canada as smaller partners come back

September 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp rebounds strongly in Canada as smaller partners come back
The growing flash businesses, strong partner services opportunities, and better leveraging of Arrow and Avnet have helped drive NetApp’s Canadian business in 2016.

Channel Programs

NetApp reworks channel strategy to get its mojo back

September 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp reworks channel strategy to get its mojo back
Over the last year, NetApp has reshaped its channel strategy extensively, and will soon cap it with a new Hard Deck policy. Unlike a similar named policy of an old competitor, NetApp thinks this one will be highly popular with partners.

by Chris Crellin, Senior Director, Product Management, Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda
Managed Services

Barracuda sees new Email threat scanner for Office 365 as strong lead generation tool

September 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda sees new Email threat scanner for Office 365 as strong lead generation tool
The Barracuda tool scans Office 365 systems and identifies all malware on the system, including the mailboxes where it was found, and whether it was opened.

Cloud

NetApp transformation goes far beyond product: CTO Bregman

September 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp transformation goes far beyond product: CTO Bregman
Mark Bregman, NetApp’s CTO, sits down for a detailed talk about NetApp’s technology strategy going forward, and why the company is convinced it has made the difficult transition from a vendor of yesterday to a vendor of tomorrow.

Unified Communications

Sennheiser moves into commercial noise cancellation market with MB 660 Series

September 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sennheiser moves into commercial noise cancellation market with MB 660 Series
The new Sennheiser headsets, designed specifically for knowledge workers in noisy open offices, feature high end adaptive noise cancellation capability.