HP Americas channel program leader Gary Simms discusses the partner program news from HP Reinvent and much more in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
Since the last time this study was done in 2016, data has grown globally by 569 per cent – but this pales besides the Canadian data growth rate of 941 per cent over the same period.
Formulus Black is a software rethinking of technoloigy originally developed by its predecessor company, Symbolic IO, designed to make DRAM non-volatile, inexpensive and usable for storage.
HP office printing boss Tuan Tran discusses the vendor’s new printers and why solutions providers should pay attention to them, and how predictive analytics will eventually slash managed print service call costs by two thirds.
VMware thinks that their now being available on the AWS cloud in Canada will make it much easier for customers to migrate some applications which have been problematic move candidates to date.
Synnex is particularly strong in Canada, a market where Silver Peak is not as strong as it would like, and recruitment of strong partners in the Canadian market is a priority.
The agreement is a North American one, but it’s expected to be about eight to ten months before Votiro’s content disarm and reconstruction [CDR] technology finds its way to Ingram Micro partners in Canada.
Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market.
Cryptomining faded from the headlines in late 2018 with falling bitcoin prices, but Kaspersky still considers it a major nuisance, which is employed by rogue employees as well as cybercriminals.
Ipanema, which Infovista acquired in 2015, is becoming an increasingly important part of their business, and the MSP channel is becoming a more important part of that, as Ipanema broadens out its channel strategy beyond large telco partners.
Rubrik Go is being presented as an option for customers, but the company thinks there’s no reason why a net-new customer who hasn’t already invested in perpetual licenses would want to buy any other way.
Atera reworked their own platform to a microservices architecture to take advantage of the new platform, which also greatly improves their ability to work with Big Data.
Minipack has a different go-to-market model than its predecessors, and will go through Edgecore Networks and their channel, making this version of the open switch platform likely to be more broadly sold through partners than before.