endpoint

In The Channel

Buffering the madness: Dynabook Canada on building a channel in the age of RAMageddon

August 19, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Buffering the madness: Dynabook Canada on building a channel in the age of RAMageddon
Dynabook Canada president and CEO Carmine Cinerari joins In The Channel to discuss the company’s new nationwide distribution partnership with TD SYNNEX Canada, and what it looks like to execute a channel-first strategy when memory prices are rewriting the economics of endpoint hardware.

In The Channel

Coro CEO Joe Sykora on the case against Frankenstein security stacks

August 18, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Coro CEO Joe Sykora on the case against Frankenstein security stacks
Coro chief executive Joe Sykora talks platform consolidation, automated alert remediation, and the agentic AI question reshaping how MSPs should think about their security stacks.

In The Channel

Logging in, not breaking in: Blackpoint Cyber’s Wil Santiago on the 2026 threat landscape

August 13, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Logging in, not breaking in: Blackpoint Cyber’s Wil Santiago on the 2026 threat landscape
Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber, joins In The Channel to unpack the company’s 2026 Annual Threat Report – and what thousands of real SOC incidents reveal about how attackers are using trusted credentials and IT tools to get inside MSP environments undetected.

In The Channel

The gaps are the opportunity: Dell’s Eric Arcese on the AI Factory, VxRail’s evolution, and what’s ahead

April 23, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The gaps are the opportunity: Dell’s Eric Arcese on the AI Factory, VxRail’s evolution, and what’s ahead
Dell’s Eric Arcese joins In The Channel with a message for Canadian partners navigating the AI era: the opportunity isn’t in the infrastructure itself – it’s in the gaps around it.

Channel Programs

Palo Alto’s Michael Khoury on what’s actually changing for partners in the NextWave revamp

April 10, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Palo Alto’s Michael Khoury on what’s actually changing for partners in the NextWave revamp
Palo Alto Networks’ Michael Khoury joins In The Channel to walk through the ground-up redesign of the NextWave partner program – from the elimination of discount caps to the new platform adoption incentives and the CyberArk identity opportunity.

In The Channel

WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski on doubling MSP margins, the Kaseya playbook, and why Canada’s cybersecurity moment is now

March 31, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski on doubling MSP margins, the Kaseya playbook, and why Canada’s cybersecurity moment is now
WatchGuard’s new CEO sits down for a wide-ranging conversation about why 2026 may be the year MSPs stop being commodity IT providers – and what the company’s 30-year track record, Kaseya-honed economics playbook, and new Bell Cyber partnership mean for Canadian partners.

In Case You Missed It

ICYMI special: RSA Conference 2026, curated for the Canadian channel

March 26, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on ICYMI special: RSA Conference 2026, curated for the Canadian channel
A special midweek edition of In Case You Missed It, cutting through the RSA Conference 2026 noise to highlight what actually matters for Canadian IT channel partners. From the dominant agentic AI security theme to new partner revenue opportunities from Barracuda and Sectigo, here’s what you need to know.

Managed Services

eSentire expands Carbon Black partnership with move into endpoint protection space

January 24, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on eSentire expands Carbon Black partnership with move into endpoint protection space
eSentire has been partnered with Carbon Black around managed detection and response since 2016, and the companies are now extending the partnership to cover next-gen endpoint protection.

Security

Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway

October 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway
Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a complete rewrite of the code base of the prior application in the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway, which adds additional security engines and the latest machine learning and deep learning technologies.

Virtualization

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth
IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.