Year: 2022

Sponsored Content

Time to double down investments in display technology

November 28, 2022 Deidre Deacon, General Manager and Channel Chief for ViewSonic Canada Comments Off on Time to double down investments in display technology
ViewSonic Canada’s Deidre Deacon says display opportunities for partners are being buoyed by trends including collaboration, mobility, and hybrid work. Find out more in this guest blog.

Data Management

Alation leverages acquired Kloud.io technology to add trusted data to spreadsheets

November 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Alation leverages acquired Kloud.io technology to add trusted data to spreadsheets
Alation Connected Sheets for Google is first out of the gate, with a similar product for Excel to follow shortly.

Uncategorized

Rubrik improves recovery time and enhances cyberreadiness with Rubrik Cyber Recovery

November 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik improves recovery time and enhances cyberreadiness with Rubrik Cyber Recovery
The cyberreadiness features include the ability to simply test, validate, and document cyber recovery plans, instantly recover the last known clean copy of data into production to minimize downtime, and performing forensic investigations out-of-band in an isolated recovery environment.

Security

Noname Security adds Recon to their API Security Platform

November 28, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Noname Security adds Recon to their API Security Platform
Noname, which sells entirely through channel partners, has added the Recon tool to simulate an attacker performing reconnaissance on customers’ domains, so they can rapidly detect and fix issues.

Managed Services

New ESET study on SMB digital security shows danger and concern high, but better in Canada than in the US

November 25, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on New ESET study on SMB digital security shows danger and concern high, but better in Canada than in the US
One factor in the somewhat better Canadian numbers is that fewer American SMBs employ an MSP for their security, compared to SMBs in Canada.

Distribution

Financing can drive growth in a tough economy: Ingram

November 23, 2022 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Financing can drive growth in a tough economy: Ingram
Ingram Micro Canada’s Bill Brandel and Kelly Carter share how they think about the economic environment, what partners can do, and what the Xvantage portal will mean for its financing capabilities.

Cloud

Pax8 signs on Todyl to bring their comprehensive SMB security platform to partners

November 23, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 signs on Todyl to bring their comprehensive SMB security platform to partners
Todyl, which is available for the first time through distribution under this deal, has a platform includes six modules, which encompass over 15 different security and networking solutions

Security

Sophos upgrades on-prem firewalls with enhancements to Xstream architecture

November 23, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sophos upgrades on-prem firewalls with enhancements to Xstream architecture
The new release also adds SD-WAN load balancing and seamless integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

Allan Mendelsohn, principal consultant and Avaya Canada
Avaya Sponsored Content

Preparing for the new multi-line 9-1-1 best practices

November 23, 2022 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Preparing for the new multi-line 9-1-1 best practices
Avaya Canada’s Allan Mendelsohn joins us on the podcast to discuss the CRTC’s new guidance for optimizing 9-1-1 calls in multi-line environments and what solution providers need to know about them.

Channel Programs

Aqua Security remakes channel program to drive sales of cloud native application protection platform

November 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aqua Security remakes channel program to drive sales of cloud native application protection platform
The company just also increased their efforts in Canada, hiring Serge Bertini as their first Canadian country manager.