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SaaSMAX sees opportunity in channel SaaS marketplace

by Mark Cox • July 18, 2014

Proactively constructing links between app vendors and app resellers is proving profitable for San Diego-based channel marketplace SaaSMAX

Apple, IBM partner to tackle mobile enterprise

by Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) • July 16, 2014

IBM CEO Virginia Rometty and Apple CEO Tim Cook strike an alliance to bring iPads and iPhones into the enterprise.

IBM and Apple have formed a partnership to make iPhones and iPad more valuable enterprise tools, and build a new, growth-oriented act for both companies.

Microsoft expands partner-owned billing options for cloud

by Robert Dutt • July 16, 2014

Gavriella Schuster, corporate vice president of the One Commercial Partner organization at Microsoft

Microsoft offers up new options for partners to control billing for customers using Microsoft cloud products, and introduces new cloud programs and support.

Microsoft adds Azure to Open Licensing

by Robert Dutt • July 14, 2014

Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Group

Microsoft claims great momentum for its Azure cloud offerings. But making it available to partners through open licensing should cause further acceleration.

Microsoft: We are a challenger

by Robert Dutt • July 14, 2014

Microsoft channel chief Phil Sorgen at WPC 2014

Microsoft execs kick off Worldwide Partner Conference saying the company sees itself in a new light in the new mobile first, cloud first market.

EMC looks to expand channel footprint with VMAX 3.0 launch

by Robert Dutt • July 14, 2014

Fidelma Russo, senior vice president of EMC’s VMAX product business unit

EMC says its upcoming VMAX 3.0 launch will push the product further into the midmarket and expand the breadth and depth of partner access to the platform.

Nutanix tackling Canadian data centre infrastructure market

by Mark Cox • July 8, 2014

Anton Granic, Senior Director, Nutanix Canada.

Storage contender Nutanix is finding its niche in Canada, growing to 16 people in 16 months and bucking the trend of managing Canada from the U.S.

Challenged Citrix sticks with CEO Templeton

by Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) • July 4, 2014

Virtualization software vendor Citrix Systems announced CEO Mark Templeton would not retire as previously announced

Dell unveils four new enterprise appliances

by Mark Cox • June 26, 2014

Sam Greenblatt, CTO of the Dell Enterprise Solutions Group.

Dell has introduced four new appliances, in partnership with Nutanix, Cloudera, Oracle and Fusion-IO.

Huawei woos West with message of security, trust

by Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) • June 19, 2014

Huawei remains focused on winning back business by preaching network security, stability and integrity.

HP turns to disties to build Helion Network channel

by Robert Dutt • June 18, 2014

Steve Dietch, give president of cloud go-to-market at HP.

HP says distributors will play a key role in making its new Helion Network community of interconnected cloud services accessible to the channel.

Canadians seeking privacy (but not too hard)

by Robert Dutt • June 18, 2014

Michael Sharun, country manager, EMC Canada

An EMC study finds Canada among the top nations when it comes to concern for online privacy. But will Canadians take responsibility for their privacy?

Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs

by Robert Dutt • June 18, 2014

Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra

Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half

IndependenceIT puts DaaS on Google Cloud

by Mark Cox • June 17, 2014

Desktop-as-a-Service provider IndependenceIT announces its Cloud Workspace Suite is being integrated with Google Compute Engine infrastructure services.