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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Sachin Gupta, senior vice president of product management for enterprise networking at Cisco
Networking

Cisco looks to double intent-based networking market with new switch, adds wireless

November 14, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco looks to double intent-based networking market with new switch, adds wireless
Cisco adds wireless to the Catalyst 9000 family for the first time, while a new SME- and branch-focused switch could end up running one in four ports worldwide, an executive says.

Susie Wee, vice president and CTO of DevNet at Cisco
Networking

Cisco: Partners with dev skills growing faster

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco: Partners with dev skills growing faster
Partners who embrace software development are growing their bookings 10 per cent faster than the average, and are more completely representing the Cisco portfolio, says Cisco Devnet boss Susie Wee.

Sri Srinivasan, vice president and general manager of Webex Teams, Meetings and devices, showing off Webex Share
Unified Communications

Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco targets ad hoc meeting opportunities with new ‘huddle space’ collaboration offering
Cisco’s collaboration team kicks off a busy Partner Summit with new collaboration dongle for any screen, a smaller room-based telepresence package, and the integration of cloud calling into Webex Teams.

Nirav Sheth, vice president of partner solutions, architectures and engineering at Cisco
Networking

Cisco looks to make SD-WAN ‘no-compromise’ with security integration

November 13, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco looks to make SD-WAN ‘no-compromise’ with security integration
By integrating much of its security stack into its ISR routers and introducing application-specific boosts for Office 365, Cisco is hoping to remove the need for customers to make tradeoffs between security and performance in the rapidly-growing SD-WAN market.

Wayne Cuervo, head of Cisco's Toronto innovation centre
Podcasts

Cisco Canada’s Innovation Centre strategy with Wayne Cuervo [Podcast]

November 12, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco Canada’s Innovation Centre strategy with Wayne Cuervo [Podcast]
Cisco Canada’s Wayne Cuervo discusses how its network of Innovation Centres work, and how channel partners can benefit from a lift in building new solutions by connecting with them.

Jerry Gravelle, Director of Development for Helepolis
Distribution

Helepolis aims to help Canadian VARs with security siege

November 5, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Helepolis aims to help Canadian VARs with security siege
Burlington, Ont.-based Helepolis positions itself to bolster customers’ defenses without ‘rip-and-replace’ and is building its channel through Ingram Micro Canada.

Nimesh Dave, executive vice president of worldwide cloud at Ingram Micro
Cloud

Ingram cloud boss: Cloud driving us towards a channel golden age

October 29, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram cloud boss: Cloud driving us towards a channel golden age
Every company — solution providers included — will become a software company, and Ingram Micro is aiming to make it easier for those new SaaS offerings to reach the channel.

No Picture
Security

Trend Micro opens Toronto research centre

October 25, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Trend Micro opens Toronto research centre
Trend Micro has opened its second Canadian research centre, a 22,000 square foot facility in Toronto’s Liberty Village. The space will be used to dissect threat, and to host partner and customer meetings and events.

Garth Scully, country manager for Veritas Canada
Channel Programs

Veritas Canada sets a new direction with new leader, channel chief

October 25, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Veritas Canada sets a new direction with new leader, channel chief
Veritas introduced Garth Scully as new Canadian country manager and Rita Loncar as new Canadian channel chief as it sets out on a new strategy that gives the Canadian organization more autonomy.

Luc Villeneuve, general manager of Red Hat Canada
Channel Programs

Red Hat Canada chief: Partners are investing, and investments are paying off

October 25, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat Canada chief: Partners are investing, and investments are paying off
Red Hat Canada boss Luc Villeneuve has spent the last few years investing in his partners, and now he’s seeing partners returning the favour, helping to drive significant growth for the open-source giant.