AWS formally announces that its Canadian region has now gone live, which the company confidently believes will significantly expand their business and the opportunities for Canadian partners.
Cloud
AWS launches Canadian region
by Mark Cox •
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Cloud, Storage
HPE offers price-per-gig storage with Flash Now initiative
by Robert Dutt •
The program, from the HPE 3Par storage group, is targeted at keeping storage that may otherwise go to public cloud in the data centre.
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Computers, Data Centre
New Canadian organizational structure for Dell EMC accelerates successful integration
by Mark Cox •
Dell EMC has made a restructuring in Canada into Enterprise and Commercial Sections, which are very close to pre-combination EMC and Dell respectively. They are crediting this as a key reason for strong performance over the last nine weeks.
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Security
Cisco joins the endpoint security fray
by Robert Dutt •
Cisco revamps its endpoint security offering, bringing it into the AMP family and targeting the replacement of traditional antivirus for the first time.
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Data Centre, Networking, Servers, Storage
Michael Dell talks strategy at Dell EMC World
by Mark Cox •
The Dell Technologies CEO stated his views on multiple topics in a variety of topics during Q&A sessions at the event.
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Data Centre, Partnerships, Storage
Nimble Storage sees huge opportunity in Lenovo partnership
by Mark Cox •
For Nimble, the Lenovo partnership massively expands their route to market, with a series of new appliances that combine the two companies’ technology, and which will go to market through Lenovo and its channel.
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Data Centre, Storage
NetApp learns from past integration failures to leverage SolidFire
by Mark Cox •
Twelve years ago, NetApp acquired scale-out NAS startup Spinnaker, and began a long and horrific series of integration problems. This year, they acquired SolidFire’s scale-out technology, and took steps to learn from the lessons of the past.
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Distribution, Small Business
Strong turnout at D&H Toronto Technology Show reflects booming Canadian business
by Mark Cox •
Attendance at the D&H Toronto event was up significantly this year among both vendors and resellers, with the show floor having a high-number of gaming-focused companies pitching VARs for their business.
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Distribution
Distribution blockbuster: Tech Data to purchase Avnet Technology Solutions
by Robert Dutt •
Tech Data will snap up Avnet’s Technology Solutions division in a deal that will see Tech Data grow its value-added distribution business.
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Channel Programs
Dell, EMC Canadian leadership come together for Dell Canadian Partner Summit
by Robert Dutt •
Leaders for the former Dell Canada and EMC Canada come together to bring their combined message to the channel.
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Channel Programs
Addition of competencies to HPE Partner Ready program highlight GPC announcements
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Other important changes include the integration of programs for other groups which used to be outside the old umbrella program and the integration of the Aruba PartnerEdge and HPE Networking channel programs into the new Partner Ready for Networking program.
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Distribution
Brandel settling into new role leading Ingram Micro Canada
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New Ingram Micro Canada boss Bill Brandel shares an update on his new role, and where he sees the distributor’s top opportunities heading into 2017.
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Computers, Data Centre, Servers, Storage
Dell Technologies pledges to lead next industrial revolution as new company gets underway
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Dell promises massive innovation and change in technology, while pledging minimal disruptive changes to the old Dell and EMC product lines.
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Channel Programs, Cloud, Data Centre, Sponsored Content, Videos
Lenovo hyperconverged channel plans with Stefan Bockhop [video]
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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.
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Security
SonicWALL leader Hutcheson lays out strategy going forward
by Mark Cox •
The new SonicWALL will see big changes and small ones. The big changes are in how the company does business as it untangles from Dell, and it’s a process that they began well before the company was even sold. On the other hand, the new SonicWALL won’t be making significant shifts from its core markets, and partner base.
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Channel Programs
VMware sees momentum from deal reg, incentives changes
by Robert Dutt •
VMware says partners are more engaged, selling more and more often after changes to deal registration and a shift on partner incentives.
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Data Centre, Sponsored Content, Videos
Lenovo’s hyperconverged play [Video]
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Don Frame of Lenovo discusses the vendor’s hyperconverged play, the expanding number of workloads suitable for hyperconverged, and more.
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Cloud, Data Centre, Podcasts, Sponsored Content
Inside Lenovo’s data centre group [Podcast]
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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.
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Distribution
Avnet regroups around technology hotspot specializations
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Distributor Avnet introduces new global specialization areas as it seeks to help partners focus on software, subscription, and as-a-Service sales.
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Big Data, Data Centre, Software, Virtualization
Stratoscale boosts channel opportunities with Version 2 of Symphony software
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