AWS formally announces that its Canadian region has now gone live, which the company confidently believes will significantly expand their business and the opportunities for Canadian partners.
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AWS launches Canadian region
by Mark Cox •
Cloud
Cloud, Virtualization
Cloud VDI vendor Workspot to offer Desktop as a Service 2.0 on Azure
by Mark Cox •
Workspot, which has been challenging Citrix and VMware with its simple to deploy cloud VDI offering, is announcing a version tightly integrated with Azure that they expect will become the flagship product.
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AWS loves itself some compute
by Mark Cox •
While AWS made many, many announcements at its re:Invent event, the reworking of its family of instances, and availability of several interesting use case capabilities are likely to turn heads.
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Cloud, Security
Palo Alto Networks extends AWS relationship to enhance firewall scalability
by Mark Cox •
Palo Alto Networks sees its adaption to the new age of cloud security as fundamental, and has been doing what it can to keep its channel partners moving in tandem on this objective.
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Cloud, Distribution
Ingram Micro execs look at what’s ahead
by Mark Cox •
Ingram Micro did not make any new announcements at their ONE show this week. They did, however, give a sneak peek at some things partners can expect to see in 2017.
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Intermedia extends Office 365 integration to the Web
by Mark Cox •
Intermedia enhances its SecuriSync collaboration and file backup solution with a direct integration between their solution and Microsoft’s Office Online.
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Cloud, Distribution, Solution Provider News
AMA excited about first Canadian deployment of Ingram Micro Cloud Store
by Mark Cox •
The Cloud Store deployment, which is now available to all Ingram partners, allows smaller customers to provision themselves, integrating them directly into the Ingram Micro Marketplace.
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Bill Brandel pledges 2017 will be aggressive one for Ingram Micro in Canada
by Mark Cox •
More aggressive moves in SMB, and cloud – including a better French-speaking cloud presence – are among the highlights of the Ingram Micro Canada roadmap strategy.
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HPE offers price-per-gig storage with Flash Now initiative
by Robert Dutt •
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.
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HPE expands Cloud28+ community worldwide
by Robert Dutt •
The Cloud28+ community aims to make member cloud apps and services more readily available, while eschewing the transactional focus of cloud marketplaces.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Virtualization
Dell vet Tara Fine sees more impact in new role as VMware Canada channel chief
by Mark Cox •
Fine also acknowledged some VMware partner concern over the company’s new relationship with Dell, which does much more of its business direct than VMware has historically, and indicated her commitment to standing behind the partner community.
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Cloud, Virtualization
VMware outlines digital transformation strategy to Canadian customers
by Mark Cox •
At a large customer meeting in Toronto, VMware execs emphasized how the company has moved beyond its virtualization base into digital transformation, and how they have fleshed out their strategy this year.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Storage
NetApp adds new threads to their data fabric
by Mark Cox •
NetApp announces a series of new and enhanced data services, as well as a refresh of several solutions aimed at the hybrid cloud.
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Cloud, Hardware
ZeroStack adds deployment option on existing servers for their ‘cloud-in-a-box’ appliance
by Mark Cox •
While other companies offer a similar type of product, ZeroStack sees a competitive advantage in what it claims is the broadest range of customer choice in the way it can be deployed.
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Cloud, Storage
Commvault announces upgrades to Commvault Data Platform
by Mark Cox •
Improvements to user interfaces in a cloud world, better automation and orchestration to deal with Big Data, increased openness and new software-defined data services highlight what Commvault is calling a very significant series of announcements.
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Intermedia adds Private Cloud deployment to white label partner model
by Mark Cox •
Intermedia expects the Private Cloud solution to have particular appeal to partners who will be able to add their own offerings and services.
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Big Data, Channel Programs, Cloud
Smaller system integrators welcome in Dell’s expansion of IoT Solutions Partner Program
by Mark Cox •
Dell established its IoT partner program earlier this year, taking on ISV partners. Now it has expanded the program, adding systems integrators, which includes smaller and boutique ones as well as large.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Managed Services
CloudJumper launches new partner portal, channel program
by Mark Cox •
The program has been reworked from the one CloudJumper brought when it spun out from nGenx, but the real highlight is the capabilities of the new portal.
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Cloud, Solution Provider News
Salesforce-focused solution provider Nubik turning new opportunities into rapid expansion
by Mark Cox •
In the last year, Montreal-based Nubik has both been deepening its relationship with Salesforce, and aggressively expanding into new markets.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Partnerships
Kingston ON-based Stantive building out its own channel for Salesforce-based CMS solution
by Mark Cox •
Stantive, which had a long relationship with Salesforce as a customer before becoming a business partner during the past decade, is now building out its own channel for its CMS solution and seeing strong results.
