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aid Nick Earle, senior vice president of cloud and managed services at Cisco

Cisco expands Intercloud Fabric capabilities, community

June 16, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco adds new technology to Intercloud Fabric, and introduces new offerings from partners including Calgary’s Long View Systems.

Dell expands Dell XC Series Nutanix offerings

June 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Scheduled to roll out in Q3, the updates to the portfolio address specific use cases. They are: support for KVM, including Nutanix’s new KVM-based hypervisor; a storage-heavy Lite-Compute node; a new appliance that provides Nvidia GPU support; and a short-depth, 1U form factor appliance.

Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.

Tech Data Canada doubles down on managed services

June 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Tech Data inks deals with Intel Security and Mobi, showing the further inclusion of vendor offerings in the emerging “subscription economy” in the channel.

Microsoft to launch first local Canadian data centres

June 3, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Microsoft’s announcement that it will set up data centres in Toronto and Quebec City is big news for Microsoft, for the provinces and cities involved – and for Microsoft partners.

Moving beyond hyperscale: Dell DCS looks to embrace smaller customers

June 1, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell’s Data Center Solutions group was created to optimize Dell’s working relationship with its large hyperscale customers, but today, partly as a result of Dell going private, DCS is working with a broader range of customers to design customized solutions that meet their needs.

New Avaya Cloud IP Office to sell entirely through partners, including MSPs

May 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

The new cloud offering comes from a Canadian-based datacentre, and is designed to appeal to SMBs as well as midmarket customers considering cloud.

Phillip Privett, vice president, technology and solutions, Converged and Data Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas

Video: Recapping Cisco Partner Summit with Avnet

May 6, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions’ Phillip Privett recaps the highlights of Cisco’s Partner Summit 2015 and discusses the distributor’s relationship with Cisco.

Cisco worldwide channel chief Bruce Klein

Cisco looks to cement software rep with new partner program

April 28, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

With a growing software portfolio and a new partner program on the way, the networking giant calls on partners to get serious about software lifecycle.