2016 – Page 2 – ChannelBuzz.ca

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[ April 30, 2026 ] On site at SAS Innovate: SAS Canada’s Ryan MacDonald on AI governance, the partner opportunity, and fifty years of trust In The Channel
[ April 30, 2026 ] The Buzz: SAS Innovate 2026 special – Viya opens to AI agents, Navigator gets crawlers Podcasts

Talking IOT and analytics with Colin Blair of Avnet Technology Solutions [video]

December 13, 2016 Robert Dutt 2

Colin Blair, Avnet vice president of IOT, analytics and cognitive, shares how the distributor is helping solution providers tackle some big opportunities.

AWS launches Canadian region

December 8, 2016 Mark Cox 3

AWS formally announces that its Canadian region has now gone live, which the company confidently believes will significantly expand their business and the opportunities for Canadian partners.

Cloud VDI vendor Workspot to offer Desktop as a Service 2.0 on Azure

December 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.

AWS loves itself some compute

December 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

While AWS made many, many announcements at its re:Invent event, the reworking of its family of instances, and availability of several interesting use case capabilities are likely to turn heads.

Palo Alto Networks extends AWS relationship to enhance firewall scalability

December 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Palo Alto Networks sees its adaption to the new age of cloud security as fundamental, and has been doing what it can to keep its channel partners moving in tandem on this objective.

Avnet brings German IoT platform vendor relayr to North American channel

December 5, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

relayr offers both an edge connectivity platform and vertically-focused services packages that Avnet thinks will be of interest to both deeply-focused IoT players as well as resellers who have been working in adjacent practice areas.

Veeam to deepen enterprise push with enterprise sales force to work with partners

December 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Veeam has also introduced new bundles with HPE and with Cisco, which are now available through Ingram Micro.

Dell refreshes mid-range thin client lineup with Wyse 5060

December 2, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

The next-generation replacement for the Dell Wyse 5020 is 30 per cent faster than its predecessor.

Ingram Micro execs look at what’s ahead

December 1, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Ingram Micro did not make any new announcements at their ONE show this week. They did, however, give a sneak peek at some things partners can expect to see in 2017.