Tech Data brings Smartattach Cisco service renewals to Canada

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Paul Wilkinson, director of product management, Tech Data Canada

Tech Data brings Smartattach Cisco service renewals to Canada

May 8, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Tech Data says its Smartattach Opportunity Portal Web tool will help Cisco partners optimize and maximize their service attach opportunities.

Chris Sullivan, vice president of channel and investor alliances for VCE

Cisco, EMC close ranks for new VCE partner program

May 1, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VCE, Cisco, and EMC come together for their first joint partner program, aiming to get partners to elevate the conversation around converged infrastructure.

Bob Martin, national business partner manager, Cisco Canada

How Cisco Meraki WiFi helped Lone Star Texas Grill improve customer service

April 25, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off

Cisco Canada’s Bob Martin chats with Bob Macey of Lone Star Texas Grills about the restaurant chain’s Cisco Meraki cloud managed wireless solution.

network intelligence can transform retail

Can network intelligence make networks money-makers?

April 2, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP and Cisco demonstrate to partners who increased network intelligence can lead to apps that will make network upgrades interesting to the C-suite.

Angie Beltz, vice president, Product Marketing, Cisco Solutions Group at Tech Data

Tech Data looks to drive Cisco services with Opportunity Portal

April 2, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new SMARTattach portal from Tech Data is slated to debut in Canada later this month.

HP bets on SDN going mainstream… next year

April 1, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Customers are educated on what software-defined networking (SDN) is, but still need help to understand what it can do for them, HP says.

Luis Artiz, Luis Artiz, Linksys Director of Product Management

New Linksys partner program, products announced at Interop

April 1, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

“The Linksys business is back,” Belkin declares at networking mega-event.

HP enters the cloud-managed WiFi fray

March 31, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP introduces its first cloud-managed WiFi offering, pitching SMB on ease of management and simplicity.

Dell pushes for enterprise credibility with new networking solutions

March 28, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell introduces a new high-density data centre switch, and a new fabric controller for OpenStack.

John Chambers at Cisco Partner Summit 2013

Liveblog: Kicking off Cisco Partner Summit 2014

March 25, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Liveblogging the kickoff keynotes for Cisco PArnter Summit 2014, including CEO John Chambers and channel chiefs Bruce Klein and Edison Peres.

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