A study commissioned by Intel specifically in Canada found that most channel partners have suffered from the pandemic. There was a fair amount of optimism for the year ahead however, although many partners said they need help to realize emerging opportunities in the cloud, IoT and AI.
Jason Chung-Tung and Giovanni Stea from Cisco Canada’s Internet of Things team discuss the nature of the IoT opportunity for solution providers in Canada and tee up an upcoming educational event.
While COVID initially proved negative for IoT projects, Intel says that trend has turned around, and they are actively encouraging and supporting partners in developing or expanding IoT practices.
The new standalone offering provides part of the functionality of the broader Armis platform, and is specifically focused on its asset management and risk assessment functionality.
Intel announced its plans to modernize its old channel program back in October 2019, and now, with the work of fully integrating their two partner portals completed, it all goes live on Monday.
The FortiGate Rugged 60F next-generation firewalls are the first to integrate SD-WAN to provide a complete and cost-effective solution for OT networks.
DH2i’s new initiative involves an expanded relationship with Microsoft around its new Azure SQL Edge data engine, and their offering will be available in the Azure marketplace.
The Toronto startup is the worldwide licensee to commercialize the MIOTY network protocol, which has scalability and signal interpretation advantages over WiFi. BehrTech is selling this entirely through channel partners.
Callisto’s presence extends well beyond Canada, because of the global scale of their large manufacturing customers, and they have what Accenture believes is a unique ability to optimize processes from the shop floor to main office.
Ingram Micro introduces a new global center of excellence around Internet of Things and adds global leadership to the business, part of a bid to accelerate the growth of IoT in the channel.
In addition to the new IoT capabilities being announced today, ExtraHop has just added a version of their enterprise offering aimed downmarket at midmarket customers, and a new service to provide these customers with expert help as needed.
The new Cisco validated integration is with Cisco Identity Service Engine, while the integration with IBM’s QRadar SIEM has been expanded.
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.
The deployment by Cradlepoint and channel partner KORE Wireless on Microsoft’s Azure IoT Central platform also shows that the IoT market has strong potential at its lower ends.
It has been an eventful year for Cylance, following its acquisition by BlackBerry. May Mitchell talks with ChannelBuzz about the year coming to a close, and what to look for next year.
NatureFresh Farms IT manager Keith Bradley discusses how Internet of Things is changing the farming business in this video interview.
SOTI Insight, the new analytics capability, is intended to be just the start of what will provide customers with a broad range of granular use cases.
The enhancements include new Lumada data services, an intelligent data lake offering, a new version of Pentaho 9.0, and an emphasis on expanding Lumada beyond the industrial IoT use cases that have been its main base.
Hitachi Vantara’s overall vision has been extremely consistent since they launched the company two years ago, but at their third NEXT conference on Wednesday they gave new emphasis to the concept of DataOps, and unveiled a host of products to help bring it to fruition
Hitachi Vantara also clarified how they plan to manage the integration in January with Hitachi Consulting to optimize the new internal assets’ collaboration with partners, and limit any channel conflict.
