Month: September 2026

In The Channel

How financing can help channel partners navigate higher IT costs

September 3, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
Rising hardware costs and customer budget pressure are making IT infrastructure deals harder to close. Mitsubishi HC Capital Canada’s Jim Moschos explains how MSPs and VARs can use financing to protect margins, manage cash flow and support multi-year technology commitments.

In The Channel

Plugable CEO Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy on bringing Amazon-tested peripherals to the IT channel and introducing modular AI hardware

September 2, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
Plugable CEO Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy joins In The Channel to discuss the company’s evolution from a consumer favorite on Amazon to a channel-focused peripherals vendor, the strategic value of its recent Acer Gadget investment, and how its new Thunderbolt 5 AI enclosure offers MSPs a modular approach to local artificial intelligence.

Podcasts

The Buzz: TD Synnex deepens PartnerFirst, Barracuda collapses partner tracks, and AWS pushes outcome-based AI billing

September 2, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
TD Synnex adds Microsoft and Cisco data to PartnerFirst, Barracuda merges MSP and reseller tracks, and AWS pushes outcome-based AI pricing. Plus: Blumira and DNSFilter integrate, OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face, and TD SYNNEX Canada Inspire dates are set.

In The Channel

Frank Balonis on why Canadian partners need to start CPCSC prep now, and what CMMC taught us

September 1, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
Kiteworks chief information security officer Frank Balonis joins In The Channel to explain what Canadian partners need to know about CPCSC, how it differs from CMMC, and why the window to get ahead of Level 2 requirements is already closing.

Podcasts

The Buzz: KnowBe4 names Kurt Mills channel chief, CBTS launches Forge Agents, and Sublime Security integrates with CrowdStrike

September 1, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
Today’s Buzz covers KnowBe4’s new channel chief, CBTS’s push to put AI agents into production, and Sublime Security’s CrowdStrike integration, plus counter-tariffs on U.S. tech, browser security, and research on why internal AI SOC builds fail.