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Pat Finerty, vice president of alliances and channels for Canada and Latin America at SAS Institute
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New Year’s Podcast Series: Pat Finerty of SAS Canada

February 8, 2019 Robert Dutt Comments Off on New Year’s Podcast Series: Pat Finerty of SAS Canada
SAS’s vice president of channels and alliances on why and how the analytics and AI powerhouse is building out its channel business, opportunities for solution providers, highlights of its business in 2018, and plans for 2019 in this edition of the Podcast.

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Cloud

Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities

December 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities
As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.

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Security

eSentire strengthens threat hunting capabilities in MDR platform with acquisition of AI-focused Versive

October 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on eSentire strengthens threat hunting capabilities in MDR platform with acquisition of AI-focused Versive
Versive had been selling direct, so their technology is not well known in the channel, but eSentire thinks that it will further enhance their already strong threat hunting capabilities.

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Networking

Cisco Canada emphasizes progress, passion and possibilities at Cisco Connect event in Toronto

October 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco Canada emphasizes progress, passion and possibilities at Cisco Connect event in Toronto
Cisco Canada President Rola Dagher recounted Cisco Canada’s trumps over the last year, which saw Canada named as Cisco’s top theatre for growth, while also highlighting the initiative Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins launched the previous day in conjunction with Deloitte and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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Big Data

Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0

October 2, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Splunk adds specific KPI predictive analytics with Splunk IT Service Intelligence 4.0
The general ramp up of the ITSI predictive analytics solution also includes new integrations with VictorOps and Splunk App for Infrastructure.

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Backup

Cohesity announces snapshot integration around Pure Storage FlashBlade

May 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity announces snapshot integration around Pure Storage FlashBlade
While multiple backup vendors have snapshot integrations around Pure’s FlashArray//M array, integrations for the AI-focused Pure FlashBlade are rarer.

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Artificial Intelligence

Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise

May 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage unveils AIRI Mini as ‘game changer’ to democratize AI in the enterprise
AIRI Mini is a joint engineering initiative between Pure and NVIDIA that provides an AI-focused solution with much less compute capability than AIRI, announced in March. It thus has a much lower entry point, and the companies think it will lead to strong interactions between infrastructure teams and data scientists.

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Security

Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements
Trend Micro also announced a free phishing simulator for business, as well as their participation in a new vendor alliance that pledges to customers it will not assist any government in offensive cyber-operations.

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Big Data

Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pure Storage, NVIDIA introduce AIRI AI-ready infrastructure
A jointly engineered ‘AI-in-a-Box,’ AIRI allows customers to cut simulation training time by 4x, in a much tinier footprint than it took before.

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Internet of Things

Aruba enhances new Mobile First Architecture, and announces non-traditional partners around it

March 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aruba enhances new Mobile First Architecture, and announces non-traditional partners around it
While the new partners in the ArubaEdge Technology Partner Program are decidedly non-traditional, Aruba also says they will open up new opportunities to traditional partners, in the same way the entry of voice-based telco partners in the early days of convergence created massive opportunities for the IT channel.

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Cloud

Paperspace launches Gradient suite to bring GPU Compute and machine learning to developers

March 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Paperspace launches Gradient suite to bring GPU Compute and machine learning to developers
Gradient provides tools that enables organizations to leverage GPU Compute to make machine learning easier, and the channel is one way that Paperspace is reaching new customers.

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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Big Data

IBM chases down Watson’s Law

March 21, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on IBM chases down Watson’s Law
IBM CEO GInni Rometty suggests we’re at the beginning of an era where the big differentiator will be how fast companies can learn, with a lot of help from their machines.

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Security

The rise of AI needs to be controlled, report warns

March 13, 2018 Guest Poster Comments Off on The rise of AI needs to be controlled, report warns
Much ink, digital and otherwise, has been spilled on the vast range of extraordinary opportunities enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Now, a team of 26 AI experts, including from Oxford, Cambridge […]
Cloud

3 ways to automate your business, so you can focus on growth

October 6, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on 3 ways to automate your business, so you can focus on growth
Sage Canada Managing DIrector Paul Struthers offers three suggestions how SMBs can automate more necessary but routine tasks, saving time and money.

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Big Data

Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools

August 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudian, Skymind partner to democratize artificial intelligence and machine learning tools
Cloudian and Skymind will jointly create integrated AI and machine learning solutions, with the first being a security monitoring tool based on pattern recognition

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Computers

Fundamental redesign of Dell Workstations enables immersive, AI-driven tomorrow

August 14, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Fundamental redesign of Dell Workstations enables immersive, AI-driven tomorrow
Dell is stressing that its recent workstations announcement is far more than just the latest feeds and speeds, but is part of a strategy to give customers the massive capabilities, immersive computing, and virtual reality of an AI-driven future that has already started.

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OpenText CEO Mark Barranechea
Big Data

OpenText brings Magellan to life

July 12, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off on OpenText brings Magellan to life
Waterloo-based OpenText says its new Magellan will be “a boom” for partners who can build out the applications and algorithms to power it for customers.

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Networking

Calgary’s Wedge Networks looks to channel for enterprise push with malware-blocking product

October 11, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Calgary’s Wedge Networks looks to channel for enterprise push with malware-blocking product
Wedge has partnered with Cylance to bring its AI-based technology into Wedge’s new enterprise product, which also marks the first time Cylance’s technology will be used beyond the endpoint.

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Cloud

AI and collaboration innovations beef up next-gen Salesforce Customer Success Platform

October 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on AI and collaboration innovations beef up next-gen Salesforce Customer Success Platform
The new enhancements come from the internal work of Salesforce Einstein, on the AI side, and the recent acquisition of collaboration vendor Quip.

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