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Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools

January 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools
Zoho has released three beefed-up tools to the Canadian market. They are Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and Zoho Practice. All are part of the Finance and Operations platform. Zoho Books now supports electronic filing for both the Canadian and Quebec governments, Zoho Inventory adds advanced warehouse management capabilities and Zoho Practice is for accountants.

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Channel Programs

Amazon adds Buy with AWS button option for Marketplace partners

December 10, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Amazon adds Buy with AWS button option for Marketplace partners
Partners can add a Buy with AWS Button to their website, as AWS continues its push to make Marketplace a more important part of how its partners reach customers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nutanix introduces Nutanix Enterprise AI cloud native offering

November 15, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix introduces Nutanix Enterprise AI cloud native offering
Nutanix complements its existing on-prem, Kubernetes and edge AI offerings with a public cloud offering which becomes a part of Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box 2.0.

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Cloud

Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership

November 5, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloud storage provider Backblaze ramps up Canadian presence with new Opti9 partnership
Backblaze will leverage the new partnership to open its first data region in Canada, which will be based in Toronto, service the whole country, and become available in the first quarter of 2025.

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Channel Programs

Zoho eyes industry associations for continued partner growth

October 15, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Zoho eyes industry associations for continued partner growth
As it continues to grow its Canadian business through partners, cloud-based business software company Zoho eyes making connections with industry assications as an important route for growth.

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Cloud

HPE to strengthen full suite of hybrid capabilities through GreenLake with Morpheus Data acquisition

August 16, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE to strengthen full suite of hybrid capabilities through GreenLake with Morpheus Data acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise [HPE] has again enhanced its GreenLake hybrid cloud through the announcement of a definite agreement to acquire hybrid cloud software vendor Morpheus Data. The deal, which is slated to close in Q4 of HPE’s fiscal year, is intended to make HPE the first vendor to be able to offer a full hybrid cloud suite.

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Cloud

ESET opens Canadian data centre

August 7, 2024 Robert Dutt Comments Off on ESET opens Canadian data centre
ESET’s decision to make its cloud-based offerings hosted in-country shows the growing importance of data sovereignty in an era where software sales are dominated by hosted options.

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Cloud

New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.

July 2, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Sage study examines role of channel partners in evolving SMB market in Canada and U.S.
Partners are engaging in significant changes to their business models to improve their capability to deliver new digitally-focused services that partners today are increasingly demanding.

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Artificial Intelligence

Major new HPE NVIDIA partnerships highlight HPE Discover

June 24, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Major new HPE NVIDIA partnerships highlight HPE Discover
NVIDIA makes scores of partnerships with other vendors, but the ones that were just announced at the HPE Discover event were of supreme importance for both companies heading forward.

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Channel Programs

Riverbed trims channel, simplifies channel program, to meet new demands

June 18, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed trims channel, simplifies channel program, to meet new demands
Riverbed has intensified its focus on AI while simultaneously simplifying its partner program, and reducing its partner program members by over 90 percent.

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Artificial Intelligence

Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.

June 10, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Snowflake reworks channel sales strategy, organization to boost growth opportunities.
At their Data Cloud Summit, with a freshly rebuilt channel leadership team, Snowflake elaborated on key elements of their new strategy and the steps they will encourage the channel to take to get there.

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Artificial Intelligence

New Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy lays out vision for company’s future

June 6, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Snowflake CEO Ramaswamy lays out vision for company’s future
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, in his first Snowflake Data Cloud Summit as CEO, introduced himself to the large audience in his opening keynote, and discussed where he sees the company moving as it goes forward.

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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.

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Cloud

Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform

May 7, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform
Designed to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, remote work environments, and Zero Trust and SD-WAN architectures, the new platform, the first major initiative from new CEO Dave Donatelli, also adds modules like NPM+ and the Aternity Mobile monitoring solution.

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Artificial Intelligence

Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company

April 30, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company
Conga has made a series of major strategic initiatives since their merger with Apptus, with the idea of making the two companies work better together, improving the culture and increasing customer revenue opportunities.

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Artificial Intelligence

More mature Conga channel strategy having success

April 24, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on More mature Conga channel strategy having success
Conga discussed the evolution of their channel strategy with ChannelBuzz, while some channel partners indicated what they were looking to see around the Conga event.

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Artificial Intelligence

Prophix unveils their financial performance management platform, Prophix One

April 3, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Prophix unveils their financial performance management platform, Prophix One
Prophix One is the company’s next generation financial platform, which makes it much easier for CFOs to execute business plans and handle large data sets and complex planning with even more speed thanks to more Generative AI and Machine Learning.

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Artificial Intelligence

Nominal tackles legacy ERP systems with Generative AI

March 27, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nominal tackles legacy ERP systems with Generative AI
Nominal is targeting the SMB and midmarket with an ERP replacement system that is launching today, and will eventually rely strongly on channel partners.

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Cloud

 Morpheus Data announces new suite of data services to help assess VMware usage going forward

March 14, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on  Morpheus Data announces new suite of data services to help assess VMware usage going forward
This provides an alternative that will let enterprises migrate off VMware Aria,   and also introduces the Morpheus Plugin Framework to let companies build their own integrations, which Morpheus will certify, and a new 7.0 version of Morpheus.

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Artificial Intelligence

Check Point explains product strategy within overall strategic context

March 8, 2024 Mark Cox Comments Off on Check Point explains product strategy within overall strategic context
While Check Point has the reputation of  being a high end product that serves the high end of the market, they also sell to SMBs as well, and even though the focus this year was on high end strategy, their SMB portfolio got its share of important announcements.

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