Articles by Robert Dutt

About Robert Dutt
Robert Dutt is the founder and head blogger at ChannelBuzz.ca. He has been covering the Canadian solution provider channel community for a variety of publications and Web sites since 1997.
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ESET Canada leader reflects on a decade in country

February 10, 2026 Robert Dutt 0
As ESET Canada celebrates ten years in the Canadian market, country manager Bob Bonneau looks back at the company’s first decade in this country, recounts highlights, shares future plans, and touches on what it means to be a EU-based company in North America.

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How Canada can close the gap between AI ambition and AI execution

December 17, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How Canada can close the gap between AI ambition and AI execution
Everybody’s talking about AI, but is anyone doing it? How about doing it well? Those are among the questions that Intel of  Canada set out toanswer with a recent survey of business leaders in Canada […]
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The future of RMM in an AI era

December 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The future of RMM in an AI era
In this edition of the podcast, we talk to Edgar Zacharjev, general manager of RMM for Kaseya, to discuss how he sees aritifical intelligence playing out in the managed services space.

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Zoho announces new Canadian editions, features

November 24, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Zoho announces new Canadian editions, features
In the eight years since Zoho first held its annual Zoholics conference for Canadian customers and partners, its attendance has gone from about 100 to more than 850.  So it’s fitting that this year’s Zoholics […]
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Cisco’s Robbins outlines opportunities, challenges of AI era

November 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Robbins outlines opportunities, challenges of AI era
SAN DIEGO — AI has the technology industry “moving at a pace as an industry, as a group, and as partners, that we haven’t moved in a very long time,” Cisco CEO Chuk Robbins told […]
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Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era

November 4, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Unified Edge updates UCS concept for AI era
SAN DIEGO — At its Partner Summit here, Cisco announced its latest server offering, taking the converged infrastructure approach it’s been taking with its Unified Computing System (UCS) lineup for many years and bringing it […]
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What MSPs need to know about Ghostredirector

October 7, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on What MSPs need to know about Ghostredirector
The new threat group appears to be offering as-a-service attacks on companies from Latin American and Asia, but often those hosted on North American infrastructure. What can MSPs learn from this kind of attack?

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How ESET is approaching Managed Detection and Response for MSPs

July 24, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on How ESET is approaching Managed Detection and Response for MSPs
In this edition of the podcast, ESET’s Michal Jankech discusses the opportunity for MSPs around MDR, sales models for the technology, and what makes for a good MDR partner.

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Breaking down the biggest SaaS security risks of the last year

July 2, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Breaking down the biggest SaaS security risks of the last year
SaaS and cloud-based apps are key to businesses of any size, and the proliferation of apps outside of the data centre presents unique challenges to MSPs managing their clients’ infrastructures. In this edition of the podcast, we take a look at the threatscape for SaaS apps, as defined by SaaS Alerts’ annual SASI Report.

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Cisco’s Robbins: Network, security integration key to agentic AI shift

June 16, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Robbins: Network, security integration key to agentic AI shift
Speaking at the company’s Cisco Live event, CEO Chuck Robbins tells customers and partners that his company is the only one that can closely marry the two most essential elements to build the infrastructure for the next generation of artificial intelligence.

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