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Changes for 2016 include allowing Authorized partners to qualify for the Silver tier at mid-year, increasing the Silver rebate payout, and changing revenue tier thresholds in some markets, which include Canada, but not the U.S.
Xinuos, which purchased SCO’s UNIX server products, is now releasing an entirely new version of the OS, hoping that leveraging market conditions and fond memories of the legacy SCO product will lead non-legacy customers and partners to look past damage to the brand done by SCO’s management in its later years.
RingCentral already has a diverse go-to-market strategy which includes several top technology distributors, but they see additional benefits in adding Westcon to the mix.
The new Dell networking OS is initially aimed only at large data centres, with the current campus OS6 and data centre OS9 continuing, but longer term, OS 10 will become the core system for all of Dell networking.
Burlington, Ontario-based electrical distributor Gerrie Electric sees Internet of Things (IoT) changing business significantly for itself and its customers.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s third annual State of Security Operations Report finds that while security organizations are investing in analytics and Big Data, many are making preventable errors that give them a poor return on their investment.
SmartPrint strengthens its claim to being Canada’s largest independent MPS provider by acquiring the Toronto MPS business of Lasercorp, which is highly focused on legal and professional services in downtown Toronto.
Commvault becomes the first data protection vendor to offer support for Nutanix’s own hypervisor, improving the capabilities of their customers and partners in the Nutanix environment.
Kaseya has also released a new survey highlighting the practices being following by the most successful MSPs today.
Riverbed looks to Ocedo to make it a more significant player in the SD-WAN market, where Riverbed has been making a major push over the last year.
Some new year’s advice from Alex Hoff of Auvik Networks on how to get rid of old habits that may be harmful to your MSP business.
In addition to its new HP RP9 Retail System, HP is also highlighting its HP Pro Tablet 608, which provides an eight-inch screen version of a product HP has offered for years in a ten-inch form factor.
The Windows-focused virtualization management optimization vendor provides a detailed update, including their relationship with Citrix and other co-opetitors, their channel policies, and where they see their market going.
Cisco Canada’s new Innovation Centre aims to create a place to work together with customers and partners on creating new solutions.
While some of the channel changes announced at Citrix Summit have less relevance to Canada than in other geos, the core themes Citrix emphasized of increased focus and channel co-operation found a welcome reception.
An appliance originally designed to bring Citrix into the low end of the market has had its scalability increased more than tenfold, now supporting up to 5000 users. Dell also announced its new ThinOS software, which now supports Skype for Business, and is backwards compatible into the existing install base.
While Citrix did not unveil any new technology products at its Summit event, it did talk extensively about its product strategy.
