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HPE beefs up unified private cloud portfolio portfolio powered by HPE Morpheus Software.

HPE is redefining the full-stack private cloud through HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, and made new storage announcements and guarantees as well.

Certinia’s advanced partner program is designed to shape partner alliances and channel sales businesses

Certinia runs both a Services-as-a-Business platform and a pthat powers and connects all aspects of services operations, from services estimation and delivery to customer success management and financial planning and accounting.

Zoho strengthens Finance and Operations platform with three new tools

Zoho has released three beefed-up tools to the Canadian market. They are Zoho Books, Zoho Inventory, and Zoho Practice. All are part of the Finance and Operations platform. Zoho Books now supports electronic filing for both the Canadian and Quebec governments, Zoho Inventory adds advanced warehouse management capabilities and Zoho Practice is for accountants.

Riverbed trims channel, simplifies channel program, to meet new demands

Riverbed has intensified its focus on AI while simultaneously simplifying its partner program, and reducing its partner program members by over 90 percent.

Riverbed unveils advanced new AI-powered observability platform

Designed to overcome visibility blind spots around public cloud, remote work environments, and Zero Trust and SD-WAN architectures, the new platform, the first major initiative from new CEO Dave Donatelli, also adds modules like NPM+ and the Aternity Mobile monitoring solution.

Conga CEO Goggin outlines strategy for reshaping company

Conga has made a series of major strategic initiatives since their merger with Apptus, with the idea of making the two companies work better together, improving the culture and increasing customer revenue opportunities.

More mature Conga channel strategy having success

Conga discussed the evolution of their channel strategy with ChannelBuzz, while some channel partners indicated what they were looking to see around the Conga event.

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

Sage Canada posts strong momentum as new products roll out

Mark Hickman, Managing Director at Sage Canada, reviewed the recent news items of particular significance for the Canadian market, and noted some additional changes coming next year.

HPE introduces new AI-native architecture and hybrid cloud solutions

HPE emphasized that Generative AI requires an architecture which is fundamentally different and more powerful than cloud-native architecture, and they unveiled it, along with related AI-native offerings.

Canadian SAP-focused solution providers Syntax and Beyond Technologies close acquisition deal

The acquisition of Beyond brings together complementary skillsets that expands Syntax’s geographic reach, and strengthens them in key areas, including scaling out their French language facilities.

Zoho launches first two Canadian data centres in Montreal and Toronto

Zoho’s plans to  put data centres in Canada to appeal to both larger organizations with stricter data sovereignty rules and smaller ones with regulatory requirements was delayed for several years, but now the company is confident it will open new markets for them.

Intel CEO Gelsinger lays out vision of how developers will rule the Siliconomy

Gelsinger combined his vision for the company’s future with new announcements and the short and medium term road map to highlight the extensive changes coming, particularly from the rise of AI.

inriver unveils its next-gen Brand Store to provide customers with self-serve micro digital storefronts

The Brand Store is a completely remade version of a product inriver has had for many years, and while not itself a lucrative opportunity for their partner base, it will contribute to the overall value of the inriver solution and to partners’ advisory roles.

VMware Canadian Country Manager Claude Reeves reviews market and impact of Explore announcements

With more than one full year under his belt leading VMware Canada, Reeves gave his take on the company’s positioning in Canada and what the major announcements will mean for Canadian customers and partners.

Liquidware announces GA of CommandCTRL SaaS solution

CommandCTRL is Liquidware’s new SaaS real-time remediation solution, and features both a DVR-like function that is more effective than snapshots and new ChatGPT functionality that was built in after the beta began almost a year ago.

Dell brings Project Helix partnership with NVIDIA live with three separate solution bundles

The new solutions involve a joint Generative AI validated design and Dell Professional Services in collaboration with NVIDIA, all of which are also available through channel partners.

Zoho adds Generative AI to ten of its applications through their Zia AI engine

Zoho’s latest extension of their AI capabilities is powered by an OpenAI integration, although they are working on an in-house version of their own which will emphasize privacy concerns.

Red Hat Summit also has significant messaging for partners

Red Hat Summit typically consists of many deeply technical announcements, and the company did not disappoint in that respect, but they also made several important channel announcements and dropped a couple big hints about what is coming for partners next.

Morpheus Data excited by collaborative potential in Dell Technologies hybrid cloud announcements

Morpheus makes a hybrid cloud management automation engine, and the development of infrastructure as-a-service offerings has led to them doing more business in the last six months than in the previous six years.