Mobility

Jeff McGrath, senior director for product marketing of end user computing at VMware
Mobility

VMware debuts AirWatch for SMB

August 9, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware debuts AirWatch for SMB
VMware’s new AirWatch Express aims to make its enterprise mobility management more accessible to the long tail of SMB and the partners that serve them.

Mobility

Xirrus expands Wave 2 portfolio with new high-density four and eight radio devices

June 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Xirrus expands Wave 2 portfolio with new high-density four and eight radio devices
802.11ac Wave 2 is still in early adopter phase, but more medium and large sized customers are asking about it, so Xirrus has unveiled two new dense solutions aimed at use cases like conference centres which have large numbers of Wi-Fi users.

Cloud

Security vendor Quick Heal enhances scalability, mobile device management functionality

June 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Security vendor Quick Heal enhances scalability, mobile device management functionality
The Indian-based vendor, which entered the North American market a little over a year ago, is also planning to roll out a cloud-based model for MSPs, likely later this year.

Data Centre

Nutanix unveils proof-of-concept drone at .NEXT event

June 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nutanix unveils proof-of-concept drone at .NEXT event
Nutanix sees the drone as an extension of its core webscale philosophy of using software on commodity hardware to make it much more extensible. Down the line, they see this as having application to use cases which will interest channel partners.

Mobility

Citrix Canada sees positives in survey on Canadian mobility strategies

June 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix Canada sees positives in survey on Canadian mobility strategies
The online survey indicated some apparent limitations in Canadian companies’ mobility strategies, such as not seeing mobility and remote working as the same thing. Citrix Canada chief Michael Murphy is, however, rather more positive about where Canadian companies are here, and where they are going.

Mobility

BlackBerry enhances workflow capabilities, integration into business-critical apps

June 8, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry enhances workflow capabilities, integration into business-critical apps
BlackBerry leverages the WatchDox security technology it acquired last year into three related offerings, BlackBerry Email Protector, BlackBerry for Salesforce, and an enhanced Outlook plug-in for version management in collaboration.

Mobility

PowWow looks to revolutionize mobile applications with new platform, CEO, channel focus

May 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on PowWow looks to revolutionize mobile applications with new platform, CEO, channel focus
PowWow’s platform for turning legacy apps into native Mobile ones with relative ease has just been upgraded, and the company is looking to increase its channel business through a select partner channel.

Cloud

Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix, Microsoft announce major expansion of long-term partnership
Key elements include Azure becoming Citrix’s preferred cloud platform, and Microsoft Skype for Business now being optimized for the Citrix VDI environment, the only one to receive this preferred treatment.

Cloud

Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada

May 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix rebound mirrors improved performance in Canada
Citrix’s Canadian country manager Michael Murphy talks about the company’s turnaround, what customers in Canada are looking for, and the new opportunities he sees emerging in Canada for the company and its channel partners.

Cloud

Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there

May 24, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix CEO Tatarinov lays out Citrix vision, and strategy to get there
Citrix CEO Kiril Tatarinov, at his first Citrix Synergy since taking over the company helm earlier this year, outlined to the company’s customers where he plans to take the company.