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.
Ingram Micro Canada chief executive Bill Brandel takes a look back at 2020 and offers thoughts on what’s to come in 2021 in this edition of thee podcast.
Mark Ballegeer of Barracuda MSP takes a look at some of the dominant trends in cybersecurity and offers tips for MSPs seeking to keep themselves and their customers secure in this edition of the podcast.
Infoblox channel executives Lori Cornmesser and Sandy Janes join the podcast to discuss the highlight of the company’s performance in 2020 and preview what’s to come for partners in 2021.
D&H Canada confirms that its 60-day financing terms, available through financing partner DLL and previously extended on a quarterly basis, will be available through the end of 2021, and the distributor expects the program to grow.
Mark Ballegeer of Barracuda MSP walks us through email account takeovers — what are they, why are they so hard to detect, and how can MSPs help keep their customers protected, in this edition of the podcast.
ESET Canada’s Cam Leetham kicks off the 2021 New Year’s Podcast Series by talking us through the year that was 2020 in the growing security field, and previewing what’s to come in 2021.
A year after Cisco began its renewed push on meeting SMB’s technology needs, how have those needs changed? We talk to Cisco’s Erin Hipp and Shamus McDonough about how small businesses have stayed resilient during the pandemic on this edition of the podcast.
How this year’s Synnex Canada Share the Magic gala will be different this year, and how you can still get involved, in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
The Quebec-based cybersecurity awareness vendor is looking to dramatically expand its partner reach with the launch of a new partner program that provides greater incentives and access to tools.
Partners — particularly smaller dealers — are “crushing” the transition from A3 to A4 as print becomes more distributed, a change Epson Americas executives suggest is going to live on long past the end of the COVID-19 crisis.
For the first time, the distributor is bringing together solution providers from around the world for its ONE Experience, albeit virtually. Here’s how it intends to make its case to a larger-than-ever audience.
Cisco’s one-stop-shop platform for partner tools and dashboards will debut at the end of the month, a key effort in its campaign to make the networking giant easier for partners to work with.
ESET’s Tony Anscombe discusses the importance of a month devoted to building awareness of security challenges, and how solution providers can help their customers raise their security IQs, in this edition of the podcast.
Cisco creates one new partner program out of 12, introduces new partner roles for developers and advisors as part of its biggest channel program shift in more than ten years.
Cisco and its partners are no strangers to market transitions — but CEO Chuck Robbins said that while technology transitions have been common, the current business model transition is more fundamentally transformative.
On this edition of the podcast, we talk to Gavin Garbutt and Derik Belair about their new venture, Augmentt, a set of tools that aim to help MSPs, discover, optimize, and manage their customer’s cloud and SaaS subscriptions.
Email-based attacks have been around for more than 30 years, but are still at the forefront of most security breaches. Barracuda MSP’s Mark Ballegeer talks about the evolution of email attacks, and what MSPs can do about it, in this edition of the podcast.
ESET Canada channel leader Cam Leetham discusses how parnters’ security practices and strategies have changed as a result of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.