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SaaS

Zoho announces new Canadian editions, features

November 24, 2025 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Zoho announces new Canadian editions, features
In the eight years since Zoho first held its annual Zoholics conference for Canadian customers and partners, its attendance has gone from about 100 to more than 850.  So it’s fitting that this year’s Zoholics […]
Channel Programs

ZTNA specialist Dispersive has launched their Dispersive Accelerate Global Partner Program to empower growth leaders in secure stealth networking

November 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on ZTNA specialist Dispersive has launched their Dispersive Accelerate Global Partner Program to empower growth leaders in secure stealth networking
The new partner program delivers tiered incentives, joint go-to-market support, and early-mover access to advanced cybersecurity capabilities that combine NSA-level security with ultra-low latency and quantum-ready resilience.

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Artificial Intelligence

Toronto’s 1Password’s reveals widening access-trust gap in 2025

November 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Toronto’s 1Password’s reveals widening access-trust gap in 2025
1Password’s 2025 Annual Report 2025 finds that the Access-Trust Gap continues to grow in the AI Era.

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Channel Communities

Zscaler launches new innovations for advanced end-to-end monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation

November 4, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zscaler launches new innovations for advanced end-to-end monitoring, diagnostics, and remediation
Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched three major new Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) innovations that help enterprises monitor and fix performance issues faster, cut issue detection by 98% and resolve issues in minutes to strengthen SLAs and minimize downtime.

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8
The availability of Auvik SaaS management, following the initial availability of Auvik Network Management (ANM) on the Pax8 Marketplace in 2024, marks a significant milestone as the first SaaS management platform available on Pax8 with shadow IT and shadow AI discovery capabilities.

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Agent

Workato Enterprise MCP now available for SaaS platforms

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Workato Enterprise MCP now available for SaaS platforms
The new Workato Enterprise MCP’s availability for SaaS platforms allows them to make their products agent-ready, securely, rapidly, and without rewriting their apps or APIs.

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Backup

Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit
Jan Ursi takes over as channels leader at Danish SaaS data and backup company Keepit, where he outlined his strategy for driving the company  forward.

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Agent

Riverbed introduces new Riverbed Data Express Service for large-scale massive AI dataset movement

October 22, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed introduces new Riverbed Data Express Service for large-scale massive AI dataset movement
The new Riverbed Data Express Service, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is designed to let enterprises radically accelerate the movement of massive datasets now required to prepare and deploy AI models at scale at speeds up to 10X faster than traditional solutions.

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Agent

Tendfor leverages CX leader AnywhereNow’s strengths to increase Microsoft Teams traction

October 15, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tendfor leverages CX leader AnywhereNow’s strengths to increase Microsoft Teams traction
Tendfor, a Swedish contact centre and console provider which was acquired a year ago by Dutch CX vendor AnywhereNow,  is already getting significant traction in the US and Canadian markets, with Fortune 500 US companies using Tendfor’s Microsoft Teams-native voice platform for enterprises. 

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Agent

Obsidian Security launches SaaS AI Agent Defense to protect data in SaaS environments

October 15, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Obsidian Security launches SaaS AI Agent Defense to protect data in SaaS environments
New platform capabilities safeguard enterprises from the next frontier of cyber risk: autonomous AI agents inside business-critical SaaS

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Case Studies

V2 Cloud introduces new partner program for MSPs

October 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on V2 Cloud introduces new partner program for MSPs
In addition to MSPs, the new program reaches out to ISVs as well, in order to build stronger and more collaborative relationships with partners.

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Agent

Linx Security announces revolutionary contextual AI agent

September 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Linx Security announces revolutionary contextual AI agent
The Linx AI-Agent delivers the first Contextual Intelligence AI Agent for enterprise, which identifies governance  with its breakthrough AI-Agent technology, and where the revolutionary AI-Agent transcends traditional tool limitations — intelligence that understands context, learns from patterns, and takes on the heavy lifting of identity governance.

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Identity

Identity vendor Veza extends Crowdstrike partnership

September 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Identity vendor Veza extends Crowdstrike partnership
The expanded partnership with CrowdStrike delivers end-to-end access security as well as identity threat protection to stop compromised identity unified visibility into identities, access entitlements, and device posture.

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Agent

LogicMonitor adds new capabilities to its platform and AI data centres

September 17, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on LogicMonitor adds new capabilities to its platform and AI data centres
LogicMonitor has beefed up its Edwin AI agent’s architecture with more than ten specialized agents that detect, diagnose and correct, announced GA of their LM Uptime and Dynamic Service Insights, declared additional hyperscaler support for Oracle Cloud and introduced a new platform pricing model.

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Artificial Intelligence

Bell Canada announces AI-powered Bell Cyber

September 16, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bell Canada announces AI-powered Bell Cyber
Bell Cyber becomes a central pillar in Bell Cyber’s strategy to lead in managed AI-Powered solutions,   unifying all of Bell’s cybersecurity capabilities under one trusted brand, delivering fully integrated protection across networks, cloud and endpoints.

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Artificial Intelligence

Precisely announces strategy to use AI Agents and Copilot to expand Precisely Data Integrity Suite

September 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Precisely announces strategy to use AI Agents and Copilot to expand Precisely Data Integrity Suite
Precisely’s aggressive strategy to expand the Precisely Data Integrity Suite rests on adding a new generation of AI Agents and a context-aware Copilot, in order to bring autonomous, yet fully governed, data integrity to enterprises worldwide.

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Cloud

Auvik releases Smart Alert Compression capability, streamlined Saas management dashboard

September 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik releases Smart Alert Compression capability, streamlined Saas management dashboard
Auvik has released Smart Alert Suppression for Auvik Network Management, in order to reduce noise and reduce alerts, and has added a streamlined client dashboard for Auvik SaaS Management that efficiently maps out relevant information into a single, unified view.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palo Alto Networks adds AI-driven Prisma SASE 4.0 solution

September 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks adds AI-driven Prisma SASE 4.0 solution
Prisma SASE 4.0 and innovations in the Prisma Browser protect against highly evasive threats that assemble inside the browser, offers AI-augmented data classification, and secures today’s dynamic private applications.

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Artificial Intelligence

Supply Chain Risk Management vendor Avetta launches global partner program with ten partners out of the gate

September 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Supply Chain Risk Management vendor Avetta launches global partner program with ten partners out of the gate
The new SCRM Management-focused program gets out of the gate with an ecosystem of ten foundational partners that bring complementary solutions and specialized expertise to help drive greater strategic value for Avetta customers.

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Cloud

Danish firm Keepit partners with Ingram Micro to strengthen its position in Canada

August 19, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Danish firm Keepit partners with Ingram Micro to strengthen its position in Canada
Keepit, which makes Danish cloud cloud and recovery platforms, has partnered with Ingram Micro in order to strengthen its position in Canada.

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