Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Adobe enhances its Sensei AI with new services
by Mark Cox •
Cloud
Cloud, Software
Cloud software suite provider Zoho looks to add to differentiated value – and values
by Mark Cox •
Zoho, which has expanded its CRM application into a suite of over 40 applications that sells for $30 per user per month, is proud of some elements of their business and product set that they acknowledge are somewhat offbeat.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software, Solution Provider News
Microsoft Canada integrator partners evolving to meet needs of changing AI market
by Mark Cox •
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.
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Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Software
Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
by Mark Cox •
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
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Backup, Cloud
Canadian businesses doing more with their data: Dell EMC study
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Cloud, Virtualization
VMware, channel, see big benefits in VMware Cloud on AWS Canadian availability
by Mark Cox •
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.
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Backup, Cloud, Security, Storage
CTERA unveils new hyperconverged Edge X Series for large office environments
by Mark Cox •
CTERA’s Edge X series weds the CTERA global file system with the HPE SimpliVity enterprise-grade hyperconverged platform
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Cloud, Storage
Aparavi adds direct-to-cloud data transfer and data classification and search enhancements to Active Archive platform
by Mark Cox •
Aparavi, which came out of stealth a year ago, plays in the multi-cloud data management space.
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Cloud, Distribution, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
Talking cloud with four Canadian Ingram Micro Cloud Summit X award winners
by Robert Dutt •
The ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast chats with four award-wining partners from Ingram Micro Cloud Summit X: Nucleus Networks, Softchoice, SysGen Technology, and FXTI.
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Cloud, Distribution, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
Ingram Micro Canada leadership breaks down Cloud Summit X
by Robert Dutt •
Ingram Micro Canada leaders Bill Brandel and Greg Onoprijenko share some of the highlights of this week’s Cloud Summit X and detail the cloud journeys for both the distributor and its partners in this edition of the podcast.
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Cloud, Distribution
Ingram: Cloud partners are getting more awesomeness
by Robert Dutt •
Partners are moving up the distributor’s “Cloud Awesomeness Roadmap” hierarchy of cloud partners, but the distributor cautions that partners need to grow, and evolve, to continue to be successful.
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Cloud, Distribution, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
The cloud journeys of two Ingram Micro Canada Cloud Summit X award winners
by Robert Dutt •
Sierra Systems and Blue Silver Shift discuss their Ingram Micro Cloud Summit X Canadian award wins and their cloud journeys as partners in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
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Cloud, Distribution, Software
Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales
by Mark Cox •
Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.
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Backup, Cloud, Storage
Datrium shifts licensing default to software model with Datrium Forward
by Mark Cox •
Datrium moves from their original licensing model to a new framework designed to provide customers with maximum portability and flexibility.
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Backup, Cloud
Druva targets VMware customers moving to AWS cloud with DRaaS update
by Mark Cox •
Enhancements include new failback recovery capabilities, and recovery for cloud workloads with cross-region/account support.
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Cloud, Software
SAP Chief Partner Officer Fahrbach says his new role reflects partner focus away from selling and towards delivering customer satisfaction
by Mark Cox •
Fahrbach also said that in comparison with the sales position held by his predecessor, Rodolpho Cardenuto, as SAP’s top channel official, he represents the entire global partner organization, and brings it to a higher level of importance within the company.
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Cloud, Software
SAP names Karl Fahrbach first chief partner officer in reworking of channel chief role
by Mark Cox •
Fahrbach’s new position is a hybrid of the work he had already been doing and the large scope of the role formerly filled by Rodolpho Cardenuto, who recently left SAP.
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Cloud, Managed Services
Intermedia adds free Envision analytics for partners to Unite platform
by Mark Cox •
Envision provides a Partner Dashboard showing all customers, and a QoS Dashboard that drills down into a single customer, with more analytics dashboards on the roadmap.
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Cloud, Networking
Meta Networks upgrades their Network-as-a-Service offering
by Mark Cox •
Meta Networks has taken customer feedback since coming out of stealth almost a year ago, and made a series of enhancements around security, management and usability.
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Big Data, Cloud, Software
Major new channel synergies anticipated from Qlik acquisition of Attunity
by Mark Cox •
While Attunity’s smaller channel, which is principally SI’s, will realize more significant and elastic capabilities through Qlik, Qlik’s legacy channel, which is much larger, will reap new data integration capabilities. This is something Qlik sees as vital because of where they believe the analytics market is headed.
