Year: 2019

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.

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.

Partnerships

Plantronics rebrands as Poly, unveils new product and strategic initiatives

March 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Plantronics rebrands as Poly, unveils new product and strategic initiatives
Poly is designed to provide a new joint identity for the Plantronics-Polycom combination. In addition to new pipeline product announced at Enterprise Connect this week, the company also emphasized new and expanded strategic partnerships which have more joint offerings on the way.

Gary Simms, vice president of Americas commercial channel programs at HP.
Channel Programs

HP’s Gary Simms on building partner programs for the as-a-service era

March 21, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP’s Gary Simms on building partner programs for the as-a-service era
HP Americas channel program leader Gary Simms discusses the partner program news from HP Reinvent and much more in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

Backup

Canadian businesses doing more with their data: Dell EMC study

March 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian businesses doing more with their data: Dell EMC study
Since the last time this study was done in 2016, data has grown globally by 569 per cent – but this pales besides the Canadian data growth rate of 941 per cent over the same period.

Storage

Formulus Black launches software stack to vastly increase power of In-Memory compute

March 20, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Formulus Black launches software stack to vastly increase power of In-Memory compute
Formulus Black is a software rethinking of technoloigy originally developed by its predecessor company, Symbolic IO, designed to make DRAM non-volatile, inexpensive and usable for storage.

Tuan Tran, head of global office printing at HP
Podcasts

How HP is thinking about the office printing business

March 19, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How HP is thinking about the office printing business
HP office printing boss Tuan Tran discusses the vendor’s new printers and why solutions providers should pay attention to them, and how predictive analytics will eventually slash managed print service call costs by two thirds.

Christoph Schell, president of HP 3D printing and digital manufacturing
Printing and Imaging

Want to sell HP 3D printers? Here’s what you need to do

March 19, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Want to sell HP 3D printers? Here’s what you need to do
New HP global 3D printing boss Christoph Schell on what skills he’s looking for from partners

Cloud

VMware, channel, see big benefits in VMware Cloud on AWS Canadian availability

March 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on VMware, channel, see big benefits in VMware Cloud on AWS Canadian availability
VMware thinks that their now being available on the AWS cloud in Canada will make it much easier for customers to migrate some applications which have been problematic move candidates to date.

Printing and Imaging

How inexpensive clone supplies make printing more expensive

March 19, 2019 HP Sponsored Content Comments Off on How inexpensive clone supplies make printing more expensive
HP takes a look at some of the hidden costs of replacing original HP supplies with third-party clone ink and toner.