Month: March 2019

Cloud

Ecommerce platform vendor Elastic Path takes cautious approach as strategic partner Adobe rolls out Commerce Cloud

March 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ecommerce platform vendor Elastic Path takes cautious approach as strategic partner Adobe rolls out Commerce Cloud
The announcement that the technology Adobe acquired last year with Magento is now generally available as Adobe Commerce Cloud was a major highlight of Adobe Summit. For Adobe ecommerce vendor partners who have worked with Adobe in this space, the consequences are not yet clear.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech Data adds Robotic Process Automation solutions to line card in U.S. and Canada with Automation Anywhere partnership

March 29, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tech Data adds Robotic Process Automation solutions to line card in U.S. and Canada with Automation Anywhere partnership
Automation Anywhere’s software robotics will allow partners involved in business process automation to scale it up more rapidly and at lower cost.

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Michael Hopfinger, director of Americas partner marketing at Cisco
Marketing

A look inside Cisco Marketing Velocity with Michael Hopfinger

March 28, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on A look inside Cisco Marketing Velocity with Michael Hopfinger
Michael Hopfinger, director of Americas partner marketing at Cisco, discusses the company’s Marketing Velocity event, why and how partners should build their marketing acumen in this edition of the podcast.

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Cloud

Microsoft announces expansion of  Open Data Initiative with Adobe and SAP

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft announces expansion of  Open Data Initiative with Adobe and SAP
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared at the Adobe Insight event to highlight the extended initiative, which also saw a demo of how Unilever uses ODI to help reduce their plastic packaging.

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Data Centre

Taking a modern view of the data centre and hybrid cloud market with Cisco and Long View

March 27, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Taking a modern view of the data centre and hybrid cloud market with Cisco and Long View
Cisco’s Nirav Sheth and Long View Systems join the podcast to discuss the changing data centre market, and what Cisco is doing to help partner address customers’ shifting needs.

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Cloud

A tale of two transformations: Adobe and Best Buy on digitally reinventing themselves

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on A tale of two transformations: Adobe and Best Buy on digitally reinventing themselves
Adobe kicked off its Adobe Summit customer event in Las Vegas with its CEO explaining how Adobe ate its own dog food to digitally transform and fundamentally reshape what had been a successful business. He was then followed by Best Buy’s CEO, who described how his company had followed the same strategy to revitalize a company that had been on many endangered lists.

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Cloud

Adobe embraces open source and developer community with General Availability announcement of Adobe Commerce Cloud

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox 1
Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.

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Cloud

Adobe doubles down on account-based experiences with extended Microsoft partnership

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe doubles down on account-based experiences with extended Microsoft partnership
Adobe also announced a brand new partnership with ServiceNow which the companies say will lead to significant advances in the integration of customer experience data.

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Artificial Intelligence

Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services
Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.

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Networking

Extreme Networks technology chief lays out vision at Toronto event

March 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Extreme Networks technology chief lays out vision at Toronto event
Extreme sees the edge as the most exciting part of the network – like much of their competition. They also believe however, that their design philosophy will give them a different kind of edge over the competition moving forward.

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Cloud

Cloud software suite provider Zoho looks to add to differentiated value – and values

March 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud software suite provider Zoho looks to add to differentiated value – and values
Zoho, which has expanded its CRM application into a suite of over 40 applications that sells for $30 per user per month, is proud of some elements of their business and product set that they acknowledge are somewhat offbeat.

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Channel Programs

Violin Systems launches new partner program to support differentiated solution, 100 per cent channel focus

March 26, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Violin Systems launches new partner program to support differentiated solution, 100 per cent channel focus
Violin’s new partner program formally brings together the old Violin channel with the one newly acquired from X-IO. It is intended to do a lot more than that, however.

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Security

SonicWall 2019 Cyber Threat Report says Canadian malware up more than 100 per cent

March 26, 2019 Mark Cox 1
SonicWall also highlighted the most pernicious threats of 2018, as well as another they expect to cause problems going forward.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.

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Networking

‘New Extreme’ Networks emphasizes resurgent Canada momentum at Toronto event

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘New Extreme’ Networks emphasizes resurgent Canada momentum at Toronto event
Extreme Networks just laid out their strategy moving forward for an audience of customers and partners at the Toronto stop on their Extreme NOW tour.

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Artificial Intelligence

Pure Storage targets high end of AI market with Hyperscale AIRI

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage targets high end of AI market with Hyperscale AIRI
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.

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Managed Services

Liongard adds Datto Autotask PSA integration, with more integrations on the way

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Liongard adds Datto Autotask PSA integration, with more integrations on the way
Liongard has provided roundabout integration with Autotask through their existing integration with IT Glue, but the integration streamlines the process, and provides access to Autotask customers who don’t use IT Glue.

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Networking

Expanded Mitel, Martello partnership bears fruit with new platform support in latest Mitel MPA release

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expanded Mitel, Martello partnership bears fruit with new platform support in latest Mitel MPA release
The extension of Martello’s relationship with Mitel around Mitel Performance Analytics to include assets acquired from ShoreTel both strengthens that partnership and positions Martello well for aggressive growth on other fronts.

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Mary Ann Yule, president of HP Canada
Podcasts

Wrapping up HP Reinvent with HP Canada’s Mary Ann Yule and John Cammalleri

March 22, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Wrapping up HP Reinvent with HP Canada’s Mary Ann Yule and John Cammalleri
Mary Ann Yule, president and CEO of HP Canada, and John Cammalleri, vice president of commercial channels at HP Canada, discuss the events of this week’s ReInvent conference and the trends shaping the HP channel in this edition of the podcast.

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Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event

March 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.

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