AWS Canada has opened its first Partner Innovation Hub in Toronto, designed to help partners bridge the AI execution gap between proof-of-concept and production. In The Channel spoke with AWS Canada’s Martin Brazonet and CGI’s Dinesh Bhavsar on the eve of the launch.
Microserve CTO Nigel Brown was on the floor at Dell Technologies World last week and came away with a practitioner’s take on what the AI announcements really mean for Canadian partners – and the clients who aren’t quite ready for them yet.
Dell’s Anthony Tanoury unpacks the structural shift underway in how Dell goes to market through distribution – including a significant move to distribution-led buying, the promise of deal reg in hours instead of days, and why AI accelerator programs are the most underutilized resource in the channel right now.
Dell’s director of cyber resilience marketing explains why MSPs need to move beyond basic backup – and what it actually looks like to build a practice that can keep a customer’s business alive.
From putting an “AI supercomputer” on an SMB desktop to consolidating 13 legacy servers into one, Dell’s Alan Ashby breaks down the practical infrastructure opportunities for partners at Dell Technologies World 2026.