Cutting through the noise for Canadian VARs and MSPs
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.
How Cisco previewed Chuck Robbins’ introduction as CEO last week, and what the new boss means to the channel, and potentially to the channel chief role.
Cisco Canada president Bernadette Wightman, channel chief David De Abreu, and Westcon North America EVP Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy recap Cisco Partner Summit.
Partners will still require a full audit to make it to upper tiers of the Cisco partner program, but once in, will only have to re-audit every three years.
With a growing software portfolio and a new partner program on the way, the networking giant calls on partners to get serious about software lifecycle.
Cisco global channel chief Bruce Klein and Canadian counterpart David De Abreu join the podcast to preview Cisco Partner Summit, April 27 to 30 in Montreal.
Red Hat has built out its storage portfolio over the last year, and now the company’s storage chief says it’s time to take the technology to the channel.
Red Hat Canada country leader Luc Villeneuve and John Beimfohr of Avnet’s main global integration hub join us for this edition of the ChanneBuza.ca Podcast.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst tells troops there’s a massive shortage of skills to deliver OpenStack cloud solutions and the company’s OpenShift PaaS offering.
“Don’t miss this wave,” Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.
Avnet’s new Web-based maintenance and renewal tool aims to help partners close business in an important but overlooked part of their recurring revenue stream.
HP Inc.’s Partner First program will focus on everything-as-a-service, while HP Enterprise’s Partner Ready will build on services-centric business models
HP’s shift in MDF priorities will result in better campaigns, higher ROI and more overall MDF dollars available to partners, channel marketing chief says.
Distributor Ingram Micro introduces Service Desk to help partners support their customers, expands the services available to VARs selling cloud services.