Month: September 2019

Greg Onoprijenko, director of the cloud business for Ingram Micro Canada
Cloud

Ingram Micro brings Comet ISV search contest to Canada

September 10, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram Micro brings Comet ISV search contest to Canada
The second edition of the distributor’s global ISV contest is open to Canadian startups, seeking to find the next generation of innovative cloud offerings for solution providers to bring to their customers.

Storage

Caringo adds digital workflow capabilities in Swarm 11 platform release

September 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Caringo adds digital workflow capabilities in Swarm 11 platform release
The object storage platform provider looks to expand their video use cases and push deeper into the media and entertainment vertical.

Cloud

Dell Technologies adds end-to-end NVMe, Storage Class Memory to PowerMax

September 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell Technologies adds end-to-end NVMe, Storage Class Memory to PowerMax
Dell becomes the first storage vendor to ship the Intel Optane SCM drives, and their synergies with the newly-enabled NVMe-over-Fabric up performance by 50 per cent and let the company tout it as the fastest storage array in the world.

Backup

Cohesity continues to add new abilities to leverage backup data with Cohesity Agile Dev and Test

September 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity continues to add new abilities to leverage backup data with Cohesity Agile Dev and Test
The new solution lets developers access backup data on a secure self-service model to facilitate much faster building of applications, while providing channel partners with additional points of contact and new subscription-based revenues.

Cloud

Komprise extends data management capability with comprehensive file search that creates virtual data lakes

September 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Komprise extends data management capability with comprehensive file search that creates virtual data lakes
The new Deep Analytics feature in the Komprise 2.11 release expands its data search and indexing, to allow for quick searches of massive amount of data across multiple sources.

Computers

Panasonic adds modular expandability, longer battery life to new semi-rugged TOUGHBOOK 55

September 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Panasonic adds modular expandability, longer battery life to new semi-rugged TOUGHBOOK 55
The modular expansion capability will likely please channel partners unhappy at how long it took to get product in their hands in the past, as this will make it much easier to customize the laptops in the field.

Podcasts

Getting to know new ESET Canada chief Bob Bonneau

September 9, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Getting to know new ESET Canada chief Bob Bonneau
In this edition of the podcast, we chat with new ESET Canada country manager Bob Bonneau about his background, his new role, and opportunities for ESET Canada partners.

Security

Kaspersky packages blockchain applications into Enterprise Blockchain Security Suite

September 9, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky packages blockchain applications into Enterprise Blockchain Security Suite
Kaspersky expands and unites a series of services they launched in the spring into a suite, to better leverage better than expected demand for blockchain protection.

Managed Services

SolarWinds MSP’s 7 habits of highly secure MSPs

September 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds MSP’s 7 habits of highly secure MSPs
Tim Brown, SolarWinds Security VP, gave a keynote to the SolarWinds Empower audience where he focused on seven themes they need to address in order to keep their customers, and their own businesses, safer.

Distribution

Inside D&H Canada’s services strategy with Roy Rivers and Chris Ralston

September 5, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Inside D&H Canada’s services strategy with Roy Rivers and Chris Ralston
D&H Canada’s vice president of sales and director of vendor management discuss how the distributor will look to expand the benches for SMB-focused solution providers in this edition of the podcast.