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New Year’s Podcast Series: Mary Ann Yule and John Cammalleri of HP Canada

HP Canada channel chief John Cammalleri and president and CEO Mary Ann Yule

HP Canada president and CEO Mary Ann Yule and channel chief John Cammalleri discuss the year that was 2016 and offer their predictions for 2017.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Stefan Bockhop of Lenovo Canada

Lenovo Canada director of channels Stefan Bockhop on the company’s 2016 campaign to build its datacentre story, and a look ahead to its 2017 partner program.

New Year’s Podcast Series: Rick Reid of Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid

Rick Reid of Tech Data Canada kicks off this year’s New Year’s Podcast Series, recounting a year that was headlined by his company’s buy of a fellow distie.

Dell’s Jeff Clarke outlines seven top tech trends he sees coming in 2017

Breakout creative workstations, Chief IoT officers and a self-healing future are among Dell’s vice-chairman of Operations and president of Client Solutions’ 2017 predictions.

Talking IOT and analytics with Colin Blair of Avnet Technology Solutions [video]

Colin Blair, Avnet vice president of IOT, analytics and cognitive, shares how the distributor is helping solution providers tackle some big opportunities.

Cisco Partner Summit Preview with Mark Collins [Podcast]

Cisco Canada channel chief Mark Collins joins the podcast to tee up next week’s Partner Summit in San Francisco and discuss the Canadian market.

Discussing Avnet’s Specialist Business Units [Podcast]

Sergio Farache, senior vice president of strategy and specialist business at Tech Data

Avnet Technology Solutions’ Sergio Farache on the distributor’s new Specialist Business Unit go-to-market focus and what it means for solution providers.

Lenovo hyperconverged channel plans with Stefan Bockhop [video]

Lenovo Canada director of channels Stefan Bockhop weighs in on the vendor’s plans to enable the channel and make hyperconverged a broader play for solution providers.

Chatting about Avnet’s networking and security SBU [Video]

Alex Ryals, vice president of security solutions for Tech Data

Avnet Technology Solutions vice president Alex Ryals discusses the distributor’s new business unit and how the company is helping enable solution providers.

Inside Lenovo’s data centre group [Podcast]

Lenovo’s Don Frame and Stefan Bockhop discuss the vendor’s growing data centre business group, and Lenovo’s advantages in the cloud infrastructure market.

Talking collaboration with Cisco Canada’s Dean LaRiviere [Podcast]

Dean LaRiviere, general manager for collaboration at Cisco Canada

Cisco Canada collaboration GM Dean LaRiviere chats about the increasingly cloudy nature of collaboration and what it means for Cisco and its partners.

Reinventing the Channel: Everything as a Service

Channel partners can and should play a strong role in helping to reinvent everything-as-a-service [XaaS] for enterprises of all sizes, says HP Inc. President of the Americas Christoph Schell.

Inside Avnet’s HPE business [Video]

Greg Peterson, vice president of Avnet’s HPE solutions business in the Americas

Greg Peterson and Ty Tobin of Avnet Technology Solutions discuss the distributor’s long-standing business with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where they see opportunities with HPE for the channel, and what they’re doing to help solution providers realize those opportunities.