November 2017 – Page 7 – ChannelBuzz.ca

Mark Hill, vice president of digitization, Cisco

Cisco eyes lower enterprise agreement limit

November 3, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco will soon lower limits on its Enterprise Agreement software sales as it “looks to move more enterprise and commercial business to the new structure.

Cisco's Rowan Trollope demonstrates Spark Assistant at Partner Summit

Cisco adding AI assistant to Spark collaboration tools

November 3, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco previews Spark Assistant, which aims to bring voice control to its collaboration tools, and ultimately create a AI-based meeting moderator.

Editor’s Notebook: Random tidbits from the Cisco braintrust

November 2, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Short hits from Chuck Robbins et al on how Cisco thinks about change, SMB, new partner types, cloud agnosticism, acquisitions, and more.

Panasonic enhances program benefits for exclusive Prime partners

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to providing increased benefits for those partners who elect to sell only Panasonic rugged notebooks, Panasonic has also increased its investment in a channel account team to provide more reps to work with partners.

Nirav Sheth, vice president of global sales in Cisco’s Global Partner Organization

Cisco, ConnectWise come together for “Cisco-as-a-platform”

November 2, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco and ConnectWise will launch ConnectWise Unite, offering an easy path to managed services around Cisco’s cloud software portfolio.

Netwrix on journey from IT auditing solution to visibility platform with Auditor 9.5

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Netwrix has a hybrid go-to-market model, but has never really been proactive about its channel. That’s about to change, however.

Improved integration of components highlights new Riverbed SteelCentral release

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The improvements strengthen SteelCentral’s digital experience management capabilities, improved its Dev/Ops performance management, and enhance network performance management in Big Data environments.

Riverbed announces automated integration between ZScaler and SteelConnect SD-WAN

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Riverbed and ZScaler partner again, this time on an integration around SteelConnect SD-WAN cloud networking that increases customer agility by automating ZScaler’s security capabilities within.