Month: May 2024

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Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component

May 31, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component
Hitachi Vantara adds another component to its newish hybrid cloud platform, with yet another on the way.

Acronis Sponsored Content

Cyber insurance: The mutual benefits of helping your clients get coverage

May 28, 2024 Gaidar Magdanurov Comments Off on Cyber insurance: The mutual benefits of helping your clients get coverage
In this guest blog, Acronis president Gaidar Magdanurov discusses why MSPs should be paying close attention to their clients’ cyber insurance applications, especially what insurance companies care about most deeply.

Fortinet Sponsored Content

Transparency, disclosure, and partner opportunities 

May 27, 2024 Sean Campbell, director, Canadian Channels, Fortinet Comments Off on Transparency, disclosure, and partner opportunities 
In this guest blog, Fortinet Canada channel leader Sean Campbell weighs in on how partners can help their embrace “radical and responsible transparency” and the movement to be secure by design.

Artificial Intelligence

New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives

May 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives
The extended partnership with Nutanix, which Dell will formally announce at a later date, was accompanied in Dell’s new channel related moves by other initiatives like a new Dell AI Partner Focused Network, and the addition of client to server and storage for partner of record status.

Artificial Intelligence

Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future

May 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future
Last year, Dell Technologies World saw the company lay out its plan for its AI future. This year, the company made considerable progress, translating concepts into product, building out a much more detailed road map and rendering some things introduced last year obsolete.

Channel Communities

PartnerFi engagement community comes to Canada

May 20, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on PartnerFi engagement community comes to Canada
The PartnerFi community and its partner benefits have been available to D&H partners in the U.S. for several years, but is now being made available for the first time in Canada.

Artificial Intelligence

Genesys’ Canadian channel partners becoming increasingly strong growth component

May 16, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Genesys’ Canadian channel partners becoming increasingly strong growth component
Over the past several years, Genesys has increased the partner share of their business, has broadened the type of partners they work with, and is now increasing its Canadian partner focus.

Artificial Intelligence

Genesys CEO Bates calls on customers to accelerate their future together

May 15, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Genesys CEO Bates calls on customers to accelerate their future together
Tony Bates laid out his vision for where Genesys and its technology is headed, which expands the existing layers of orchestration into a future that promises an industry that will be  very different from today.

Artificial Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks country manager Daniel Roy sees strong position for company in Canada

May 13, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks country manager Daniel Roy sees strong position for company in Canada
Roy became Palo Alto Networks’ new VP and Country Manager for Canada last fall, and discusses the direction in which the company is headed in Canada.

Ingram Micro Sponsored Content

How Ingram Micro’s configuration centre adds value to Lenovo ISG products

May 9, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How Ingram Micro’s configuration centre adds value to Lenovo ISG products
In this special bonus episode of the podcast from Ingram Micro Canada, Lenovo Canada’s Bill Tirpkos interviews Ingram’s Ayon Khan and Roger Silvestre about the relationship between the vendor and the distributor, and how Ingram adds value to Lenovo’s data centre lineup.