Year: 2019

Unified Communications

Avaya’s CEO emphasizes company has fundamentally transformed around embracing change and customer centrality

January 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya’s CEO emphasizes company has fundamentally transformed around embracing change and customer centrality
Jim Chirico kicked off Avaya’s Engage event in Austin by updating the company’s progress, and stressing that the company has reoriented its approach to the market and their customers.

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Podcasts

How are Canadians feeling about cybersecurity? [Podcast]

January 21, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How are Canadians feeling about cybersecurity? [Podcast]
Stephen Cobb of ESET shares the results of the company’s first research into how Canadians are feeling about cybersecurity-related issues and offers some thoughts on the biggest security challenges we’ll see in 2019.

Sponsored Content

Dell Technologies’ Top 3 IT Predictions For 2019

January 21, 2019 Guest Poster Comments Off on Dell Technologies’ Top 3 IT Predictions For 2019
Kevin Connolly, Dell EMC Canada’s President of Commercial Sales, presents three key predictions from Dell Technologies for the coming year.

Networking

Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney

January 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney
Palo Alto Networks’ Canadian country manager talks about the challenges his company faces, how it has adapted its strategies to meet them, and what the channel needs to do to keep pace.

Cloud

Kemp sees use beyond sales in new TCO calculator to assess applicability of consumption-based licensing for customers

January 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kemp sees use beyond sales in new TCO calculator to assess applicability of consumption-based licensing for customers
Kemp has introduced a new TCO calculator that shows customers the difference in costs between metered, perpetual, and competitive licensing options, and is emphasizing its use as an educational tool that shows more than cost savings, illustrating how the alternatives apply in different kinds of scenarios, and whether consumption-based licensing is a good fit for a specific customer.

Security

2018 research highlights from ESET’s leading lights

January 18, 2019 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on 2018 research highlights from ESET’s leading lights
Now that another eventful year in cybersecurity is in the rearview mirror, let’s look back on some of the finest malware analysis by ESET researchers in 2018.

Internet of Things

Trend Micro makes IoT Security solution more useful for partners with new SDK capabilities and better integration

January 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro makes IoT Security solution more useful for partners with new SDK capabilities and better integration
Trend Micro IoT Security 2.0 responds to an ask from Trend’s traditional channel partners to make the solution more flexible and easier for them to integrate, in order to improve their ability to monetize IoT opportunities.

Cloud

Pulse Secure introduces full-featured vADC Community Edition to turn developers into fans

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulse Secure introduces full-featured vADC Community Edition to turn developers into fans
Pulse Secure has had free ‘try before you buy’ products before, but this new Community Edition has all the features of the full version, and with no time limit on use. The only limitations are that its scalability is limited to smaller applications, and it lacks the full management and Pulse Secure support.

Mark Collins, vice president of the partner organization at Cisco Canada
Networking

New Year’s Podcast Series: Mark Collins of Cisco Canada

January 17, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on New Year’s Podcast Series: Mark Collins of Cisco Canada
Mark Collins, vice president of the partner organization at Cisco Canada, talks about the year that was 2018 and offers thoughts for the year that will be 2019 in this edition of the New Year’s Podcast Series.

Security

Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability
This is the first new capability Barracuda has added to the Total Email Security bundle since they created it last fall, and they say that others are on the way.