Internet of Things

Internet of Things

Toronto’s BehrTech scores $3 million funding grant to help displace Wi-Fi in IoT

May 28, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s BehrTech scores $3 million funding grant to help displace Wi-Fi in IoT
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.

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Internet of Things

Accenture adds innovative ‘diamond’ to digital manufacturing practice by acquiring Ontario-based Callisto

May 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Accenture adds innovative ‘diamond’ to digital manufacturing practice by acquiring Ontario-based Callisto
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.

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Distribution

Ingram takes IOT focus global

April 14, 2020 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Ingram takes IOT focus global
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.

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Internet of Things

ExtraHop adds enterprise Internet of Things capabilities to Reveal(x)

February 18, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on ExtraHop adds enterprise Internet of Things capabilities to Reveal(x)
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.

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Internet of Things

Nozomi Networks continues IT tech partnership expansion with expanded Cisco, IBM relationships

December 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nozomi Networks continues IT tech partnership expansion with expanded Cisco, IBM relationships
The new Cisco validated integration is with Cisco Identity Service Engine, while the integration with IBM’s QRadar SIEM has been expanded.

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Cloud

Hitachi Vantara sees great fit for Canadian partners with expanded solution set

December 2, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara sees great fit for Canadian partners with expanded solution set
Marcel Escorcio talks with ChannelBuzz about the major new additions to the Hitachi Vantara lineup announced at NEXT, and their implications for Canadian partners.

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Internet of Things

Cradlepoint touts Sagegreenlife case study as demonstrating suitability of IoT for small deployments

December 2, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cradlepoint touts Sagegreenlife case study as demonstrating suitability of IoT for small deployments
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

BlackBerry Cylance looking to MSP business, new products to help drive 2020 growth

November 11, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry Cylance looking to MSP business, new products to help drive 2020 growth
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.

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Internet of Things

How IoT is changing the farming game, with Dell EMC customer Nature Fresh Farms

November 5, 2019 Guest Poster Comments Off on How IoT is changing the farming game, with Dell EMC customer Nature Fresh Farms
NatureFresh Farms IT manager Keith Bradley discusses how Internet of Things is changing the farming business in this video interview.

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Internet of Things

SOTI continues path beyond EMM with new analytics, IoT and identity solutions for SOTI ONE platform

October 28, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOTI continues path beyond EMM with new analytics, IoT and identity solutions for SOTI ONE platform
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada use cases to enhance edge capabilities

October 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara expands Lumada use cases to enhance edge capabilities
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.

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Internet of Things

Hitachi Vantara stresses DataOps and Made by Data messaging in restating vision at NEXT event

October 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Hitachi Vantara stresses DataOps and Made by Data messaging in restating vision at NEXT event
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

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Channel Programs

Partners to see new opportunities from new Hitachi Vantara solutions and portal

October 10, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Partners to see new opportunities from new Hitachi Vantara solutions and portal
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.

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Artificial Intelligence

SolarWinds MSP’s Dave Sobel talks opportunities and threats for partners in emerging technologies

August 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds MSP’s Dave Sobel talks opportunities and threats for partners in emerging technologies
Sobel, a member of CompTIA’s Executive Committee of the Emerging Technology Community, discussed what the committee has identified as the top three technologies for 2019 – as well as one that was not even on the Top Ten list, but which Sobel thinks is critical for solution providers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Dell ready for new Roaring Twenties in Canada

July 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell ready for new Roaring Twenties in Canada
Mike Sharun and Paul Katigbak, who run Dell EMC’s enterprise and commercial businesses in Canada respectively, discuss Dell Technologies’ digital transformation strategy in Canada.

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Internet of Things

Cyber Deception vendor TrapX primes for expansion with new $18 million Series C round

July 1, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cyber Deception vendor TrapX primes for expansion with new $18 million Series C round
TrapX focuses on IoT protection as well as IT, and their go-to-market strategy includes an MSSP channel which sells down into the midmarket and the SMB.

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Internet of Things

HPE, ABB extend strategic partnership with new industrial monitoring solution utilizing Aruba technology

June 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE, ABB extend strategic partnership with new industrial monitoring solution utilizing Aruba technology
The new joint solution, provides an industrial monitoring solution for proactive maintenance that is much more scalable than what ABB had been using before, and ABB sees its ability to be sold on a consumption model as opening up new use cases.

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Internet of Things

HPE introduces Channel to Edge Institute for partners as part of Intelligent Edge rampup

June 19, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on HPE introduces Channel to Edge Institute for partners as part of Intelligent Edge rampup
One of the fruits of HPE’s increase investment in the Intelligent Edge is a new program designed to train partners about use cases and business cases, and which has a joint Go-to-Market component with HPE.

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Internet of Things

D-Link camera vulnerability allows attackers to tap into the video stream

May 22, 2019 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on D-Link camera vulnerability allows attackers to tap into the video stream
ESET researchers highlight a series of security holes in a device intended to make homes and offices more secure

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Internet of Things

Lenovo lays out Smart IoT vision and its plans to drive it forward this year

May 16, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo lays out Smart IoT vision and its plans to drive it forward this year
Lenovo’s IoT strategy is not new, but this year it is being expanded in terms of product commtiment and new channel-focused initiatives.

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