HPE Canada President Hodgins emphasizes strength of Discover’s innovation theme
This is 40 for Ingram Micro
As Ingram Micro celebrates its 40th birthday, we discuss the first 40 years for the distributor with Bill Brandel, country…
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Symantec emphasizes portfolio breadth by enhancing four different gateway solutions
The big news here is likely adding patent-pending technology – Mirror Gateway – to the CloudSoc CASB solution, but the…
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While the two major new alliances were the splashy announcements, CloudJumper also announced the release of version 5.3 of their…
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The new BitTitan platform begins with six complex new services around Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, which provide a new…
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HPE Canada President Hodgins emphasizes strength of Discover’s innovation theme
by Mark Cox •
Internet of Things, Training
HPE introduces Channel to Edge Institute for partners as part of Intelligent Edge rampup
by Mark Cox •
One of the fruits of HPE’s increase investment in the Intelligent Edge is a new program designed to train partners about use cases and business cases, and which has a joint Go-to-Market component with HPE.
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Storage
HPE redefines its mission-critical storage with new high -end Primera with InfoSight
by Mark Cox •
HPE Primera becomes the company’s new high end storage product, but the company says that their other higher-end products will continue to be produced.
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Channel Programs, Mobility
HPE outlines channel vision, issues call to action at Global Partner Summit
by Mark Cox •
At Global Partner Summit, HPE congratulated partners for the past year, and provided them with some details about key elements of thd company’s strategy in the year ahead.
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Channel Programs, Marketing, SalesBuzz
HPE introduces new ‘Pro’ branded sales, technical and marketing initiatives
by Mark Cox •
HPE makes significant additions to their Marketing Pro program, enhances the Tech Pro program that was introduced three months ago, and launched a new Sales Pro program which uses the same concepts as the others.
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Managed Services, Security
Third Wall takes security upgrade message to ConnectWise Explore
by Mark Cox •
Third Wall makes a plug-in for Automate that complements traditional firewalls and AV, with functionality it says is both broader and deeper than Group Policy.
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Managed Services
New ConnectWise CEO sends message to market at IT Nation Explore event
by Mark Cox •
CEOs typically give messaging around their vision and high-level strategy at major customer and partner events, but for new ConnectWise CEO, at his first Explore since replacing long-time leader Arnie Bellini, this task was especially important.
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Managed Services, Security
ConnectWise doubles down on security theme at IT Nation Explore
by Mark Cox •
At their partner event, ConnectWise detailed both what they are doing to better get their own security house in order, and what they are doing to help partners protect their house.
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Managed Services, Training
First ConnectWise Customer Success Officer rethinks how to make MSP customers more successful
by Mark Cox •
ConnectWise veteran Craig Fulton has moved from the Chief Products Officer job to the new position of Customer Success Officer, and talks about his plans to make their MSP customers more successful.
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E-commerce, Managed Services
New eCommerce-style Website highlights ConnectWise IT Nation Explore news
by Mark Cox •
ConnectWise also unveiled a number of enhancements designed to make the lives of technicians easier.
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Networking, Security
DH2i fills out integrated Zero Trust connectivity story with DxConnect network security software
by Mark Cox •
Combined with their DxOdyssey software, which provides a replacement for VPNs to the cloud, DxConnect broadens the use case to address remote privilege user access.
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Digital Signage, Hardware
New ViewSonic products reflect shift to solutions focus and convergence of AV and IT
by Mark Cox •
ViewSonic made five separate product announcements at InfoComm 19, but this year, the message is not as much about the individual products as the broader vision that unites them.
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Unified Communications
Sennheiser restructures North American operations to improve channel efficiency
by Mark Cox •
With the restructuring of Sennheiser into two separate business for the start of 2020 on schedule, the part of the company focused on unified communications has already implemented internal and channel sales changes.
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Big Data, Security
Barracuda adds automation, scalability to cloud firewall analytics with Firewall Insights
by Mark Cox •
Barracuda’s new scalable analytics capability was designed for the distributed enterprise, but can provide value in mid-market sized companies with several dozen locations.
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Partnerships, Security
Digital Defense, Attivo unveil integrated vulnerability management-deception technology solution
by Mark Cox •
The bundled offering, which will go to market through the companies’ joint channel partners, is seen as a particularly strong offering in ICS and IoT environments.
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Communications
Cisco debuts “cognitive collaboration,” pledges interoperability focus
by Robert Dutt •
Cisco will add social graphing and contextual information about meeting attendees to its collaboration tools and outlines plans to make its collaboration tools integrate well with its competitors and peers.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Data Centre, Partnerships
That’s a Wrap on Dell Technologies World 2019
by Guest Poster •
Dell EMC Canada’s President of Commercial Sales Paul Katigbak gives his take on some of the major announcements from the recent Dell Technologies World event.
