Acer’s financial numbers announced Thursday exceeded expectations, with strong channel sales assisting its improved performance.
Computers, Mobility, Notebooks
Rebounding Acer rolls out new 17 inch notebooks
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Distribution, Small Business
D&H Canada cuts ribbon on new office/warehouse complex
by Mark Cox •
The extra warehouse space had become an absolute necessity because the expansion of D&H’s Canadian business was straining its capability to give its customers the service they expect.
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Hardware, Software
Diablo looks to redefine memory with next gen Carbon2
by Mark Cox •
In addition to Carbon2, their second generation of Memory Channel Storage, they have announced NanoCommit, a software layer which combines with the Carbon2 hardware on a path to full memory convergence.
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Data Centre, Storage
CacheBox brings server-side caching into application tier
by Mark Cox •
Their CacheAdvance application acceleration software delivers high performance while using only a fraction of flash capacity required by other solutions.
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Networking, Small Business
Linksys continues relaunch with new fully managed switches
by Mark Cox •
Linksys continues the rebuilding of its brand in the SMB market with the announcement of the first fully managed gigabit switches in its Linksys Business product lineup.
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Storage
EMC says new ProtectPoint solution can revolutionize backup
by Mark Cox •
EMC’s new backup solution leverages enhanced technology in VMAX 3.0 to integrate primary storage and protection storage.
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Cloud, Storage
Cleversafe, Nasuni partner on unified storage solution
by Mark Cox •
The partnership creates a unified storage system that will let distributed offices and mobile employees access a single global fileshare which makes collaboration and centralized data protection possible.
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Cloud, Software, Uncategorized
SAP Canada opens first Canadian data centre in Markham
by Mark Cox •
SAP’s new strategic investment in Canada is part of a strategy to help its Canadian channel partners significantly grow their cloud business
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Security, Training
Fortinet overhauls network security certification program
by Mark Cox •
Fortinet will retire its existing certifications in a year in favor of a new, modular and more robust certification that partners had requested
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Cloud, Data Centre
RackWare adds DR to cloud management solution
by Mark Cox •
RackWare’s new disaster recovery capability in its cloud workload portability offering should enhance its growing appeal to VARs
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Mobility, Networking, Small Business
Motorola unveils WiNG Express WLAN for SMBs
by Mark Cox •
Motorola adapts its enterprise WLAN technology into an easy to use offering priced for SMBs
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Training
IBM enhances partner social media training
by Mark Cox •
IBM has enhanced the Social Media Boot Camps it created two years ago, and has taken the Selling with Social Insights tool on its Partnerworld website live.
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Cloud, Small Business, Software
SAP creates new division to serve smaller firms
by Mark Cox •
SAP detaches SMBs from SMEs in a new organization which will give their on-prem focused VAR partners new opportunities with hybrid and cloud solutions.
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Cloud, Security
My Digital Shield looks to defend small biz
by Mark Cox •
Security-as-a-service startup with a Canadian connection looks to the channel to sell enterprise-grade security to small business
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Security
Webroot reworks channel program to support partner-driven model
by Mark Cox •
Webroot sees a real differentiator in the marketing and sales toolkit it provides partners
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Cloud
SaaSMAX sees opportunity in channel SaaS marketplace
by Mark Cox •
Proactively constructing links between app vendors and app resellers is proving profitable for San Diego-based channel marketplace SaaSMAX
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Channel Programs, Networking
Extreme Networks targets new partners with new channel program
by Mark Cox •
Fresh off its merger with Enterasys, Extreme Networks says its new partner program reflects the fact that the combined vendor is now a channel company.
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Storage
Seagate unveils new NAS lines for small business
by Mark Cox •
Seagate NAS Pro line includes everything from fully loaded to completely diskless for VARs who prefer to specify their own storage for customers’ NASes.
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Big Data, Cloud, Storage
IBM unveils new Big Data data management service
by Mark Cox •
IBM debuts Elastic Storage, a software-defined storage-as-a-service offering built on SoftLayer that can be implemented 100% cloud, or on a hybrid model.
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Channel Programs
Stratus remakes partner program to reflect growing channel role
by Mark Cox •
Stratus Technologies revamps its channel program to put focus on growing software business, add sales and marketing enablement support.
