Security

Cisco’s Hypershield coming in August

June 5, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco’s Hypershield coming in August
Cisco’s securirty chief calls the coming technology the company’s biggest innovation in security in its 40 year history, sees HyperShield opening a new category of security solution.

Artificial Intelligence

Cisco is ready for the AI era: Robbins

June 5, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco is ready for the AI era: Robbins
Kicking off the company’s Cisco Live event, Cisco chief Chuck Robbins said his company is much more ready for the AI era than it was for the cloud and offered his thoughts on the importance of culture and purpose in approaching AI.

Backup

Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market

June 3, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra announces general availability of SaaSAssure to address broad SaaS application market
Asigra has been a backup provider for decades, and is now expanding their portfolio with SaaSAssure, which provides comprehensive recovery for SaaS applications, with ten apps available at launch today, and 14 more set to become available in the near future.

Green

Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component

May 31, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara further expands Virtual Storage Platform One portfolio with block storage component
Hitachi Vantara adds another component to its newish hybrid cloud platform, with yet another on the way.

Acronis Sponsored Content

Cyber insurance: The mutual benefits of helping your clients get coverage

May 28, 2024 Gaidar Magdanurov Comments Off on Cyber insurance: The mutual benefits of helping your clients get coverage
In this guest blog, Acronis president Gaidar Magdanurov discusses why MSPs should be paying close attention to their clients’ cyber insurance applications, especially what insurance companies care about most deeply.

Fortinet Sponsored Content

Transparency, disclosure, and partner opportunities 

May 27, 2024 Sean Campbell, director, Canadian Channels, Fortinet Comments Off on Transparency, disclosure, and partner opportunities 
In this guest blog, Fortinet Canada channel leader Sean Campbell weighs in on how partners can help their embrace “radical and responsible transparency” and the movement to be secure by design.

Artificial Intelligence

New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives

May 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New strategic partnership with Nutanix highlights Dell channel initiatives
The extended partnership with Nutanix, which Dell will formally announce at a later date, was accompanied in Dell’s new channel related moves by other initiatives like a new Dell AI Partner Focused Network, and the addition of client to server and storage for partner of record status.

Artificial Intelligence

Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future

May 22, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Michael Dell lays out vision to get enterprises to reimagine organizations for AI future
Last year, Dell Technologies World saw the company lay out its plan for its AI future. This year, the company made considerable progress, translating concepts into product, building out a much more detailed road map and rendering some things introduced last year obsolete.

Channel Communities

PartnerFi engagement community comes to Canada

May 20, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on PartnerFi engagement community comes to Canada
The PartnerFi community and its partner benefits have been available to D&H partners in the U.S. for several years, but is now being made available for the first time in Canada.

Artificial Intelligence

Genesys’ Canadian channel partners becoming increasingly strong growth component

May 16, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Genesys’ Canadian channel partners becoming increasingly strong growth component
Over the past several years, Genesys has increased the partner share of their business, has broadened the type of partners they work with, and is now increasing its Canadian partner focus.