Year: 2021

Unified Communications

Jabra expands Evolve 2 family with entry level Evolve2 30

March 2, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Jabra expands Evolve 2 family with entry level Evolve2 30
The Evolve2 30 is a superior version to the existing Evolve 30, with better collaboration features, passive noise cancellation, durability and flexibility, although the older model will also remain in production.

Backup

Expanded Sophos, Nutanix and Oracle integrations highlight Arcserve UDP 8.0

March 2, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expanded Sophos, Nutanix and Oracle integrations highlight Arcserve UDP 8.0
The big theme around this release is expanded protection against ransomware, which is the focus of the new Sophos integration, but the release also contains major expansions of partnerships with Nutanix and Oracle.

Channel Programs

Appgate emphasizes education, evangelization of techs in new Sentinel Partner Program

March 2, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Appgate emphasizes education, evangelization of techs in new Sentinel Partner Program
Appgate’s first partner program since their spinoff from Cyxtera last year is explicitly focused on empowering and rewarding solution architects and sales engineers, to make them advocates of the company’s SDP technology.

Security

Hunters signs Benchmark to bring its open XDR platform to Canada

March 2, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hunters signs Benchmark to bring its open XDR platform to Canada

Benchmark’s strength in the Canadian market is in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, and that dovetails nicely with Hunters’ expansion strategy, which is focused on building up business on the eastern side of the continent first.

Cloud

Cisco Canada: Continuing to deliver critical collaboration tools to SME customers

March 1, 2021 Cisco Canada Guest Blog Comments Off on Cisco Canada: Continuing to deliver critical collaboration tools to SME customers
Cisco’s Sonya Mazzaferro offers some thoughts on how the vendor and its partners have adopted to the changing collaboration needs of SME customers over the last year through the flexibility of Webex Work.

Unified Communications

Poly introduces wireless DECT Poly Rove systems with baked-in Microban anti-microbial tech

March 1, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Poly introduces wireless DECT Poly Rove systems with baked-in Microban anti-microbial tech
In addition to the Rove, which is a brand new line, Poly has also announced the refresh of another DECT series, the Savi 7300.

Networking

Commscope refines channel strategy for North America with new channel management model

February 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Commscope refines channel strategy for North America with new channel management model
ongtime Commscope Canadian country manager Karen Pugliese, who recently became Commscope’s Partner Leader Americas in a rejigged management model, talks with ChannelBuzz about what partners can expect in 2021.

Cloud

Mike Sharun to retire from Dell Canada in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as successor

February 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Mike Sharun to retire from Dell Canada in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as successor
Big changes afoot at Dell Technologies in Canada, with Mike Sharun, who had spent the last 23 years at Dell and EMC, announcing he will retire in the spring, with Pam Pelletier named as his replacement.

Networking

Infoblox unveils invite-only Cloud Specialization program to spur SaaS sales

February 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on Infoblox unveils invite-only Cloud Specialization program to spur SaaS sales
Infoblox’s new program includes 30 picked partners who have already made a SaaS commitment, and will pair them with Infoblox experts and provide them with increased support to boost their SaaS business.

Virtualization

IGEL unveils new Amazon WorkSpaces integration at DISRUPT Unite 2021 Cloud Workspaces Experience event

February 26, 2021 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL unveils new Amazon WorkSpaces integration at DISRUPT Unite 2021 Cloud Workspaces Experience event
IGEL’s events are generally fist-pumping affairs, and this one was no different, coming on the heels of a private equity firm taking a majority investment in the company two weeks ago.