DropBox

Cloud

Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales

March 12, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pickit image service moves into channel with Ingram Micro bundle around Office 365 sales
Office 365 itself is a notoriously low margin offering, and adding Pickit to it, in what should be a low-touch transaction, can double those margins.

Cloud

DropBox strengthens relationship with BetterCloud and launches BetterCloud for DropBox offering

November 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on DropBox strengthens relationship with BetterCloud and launches BetterCloud for DropBox offering
BetterCloud has been named a DropBox premier partner, and DropBox will offer the joint offering to their customers from $2 per user per month.

Unified Communications

Zoom adds PBX capability to video platform to broaden collaboration capability

October 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zoom adds PBX capability to video platform to broaden collaboration capability
Zoom sees the expansion of the platform’s capabilities as broadening collaboration conversations for Zoom channel partners, who are a still small, but growing part of their go-to-market strategy.

Managed Services

BitTitan and Dropbox enhance partnership as it hits general availability

September 12, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on BitTitan and Dropbox enhance partnership as it hits general availability
The integration designed to create new opportunities for both companies’ channels has deepened since it was originally announced in July. Integration now is much broader than Box, which was the original plan. The distributors involved will also be selling the solution as a bundle.

Cloud

Ingram Micro expands Canadian cloud sales team

August 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ingram Micro expands Canadian cloud sales team
Ingram Micro’s Canada’s Canadian cloud sales resources increase by three more to a total of eight, up from two at the beginning of the year.

Managed Services

BitTitan, Dropbox see enormous opportunities in new go-to-market alliance

July 13, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on BitTitan, Dropbox see enormous opportunities in new go-to-market alliance
BitTitan and DropBox will collaborate on an integrated go-to-market strategy where the services of each will be bundled together and available to both channels.

Storage

New Nexsan UNITY offers adds sync and share capabilities to NST Unified Storage

April 25, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Nexsan UNITY offers adds sync and share capabilities to NST Unified Storage
Integrating the capabilities acquired from Connected Data’s Transporter appliances gives Nexsan what they believe will be a completely differentiated unified storage offering.

Cloud

Connected Data unveils smaller Transporter private business cloud devices

February 25, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Connected Data unveils smaller Transporter private business cloud devices
The company rolls out smaller and less expensive appliance alternatives to Dropbox, and emphasizes that it relies on partners to show SMBs that their upfront cost is cheaper over time.

Cloud

BitTitan extends MigrationWiz to migrate DropBox to One Drive for Business and Google Drive

December 10, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on BitTitan extends MigrationWiz to migrate DropBox to One Drive for Business and Google Drive
BitTitan sees their tool to migrate DropBox accounts to Microsoft One Drive for Business or Google Drive as particularly appealing to customers looking to consolidate all their data.

Cloud

Canadian C-levels clueless on cloud?

October 31, 2014 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canadian C-levels clueless on cloud?
A new survey commissioned by Microsoft found under 5 per cent of Canadian C level execs understand what the cloud is, but the reality is somewhat different.