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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.