VMware thinks that their now being available on the AWS cloud in Canada will make it much easier for customers to migrate some applications which have been problematic move candidates to date.
AWS made such a flurry of announcements at last week’s re:Invent event that it was sometimes difficult to keep track. Canadian partners and customers at the event did, however, have pretty clear ideas about what they liked.
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.
VMware’s new North American structure will mean access to new resources to help Canadian partners evolve their services play, Donna Wittmann says.
How one Ontario solution provider is using its attendance at last week’s VMworld to educate and engage key customers and prospects.
New Red Hat Canada country manager Luc Villeneuve seeks to add resources to help manage partners in country, with ISVs and OEMs top on his to-do list.
Solution providers can expect “a very close alignment” with the whole Canadian organzation, channel chief Donna Wittmann says.
Shanti Gidwani of Cisco Canada discusses healthcare opportunities, and VMWare Canada boss Eric Gales discusses the hiring of Donna Wittmann.
Donna Wittmann, new executive director, channels, alliances and commercial sales, VMware Canada
VMware Canada’s Eric Gales and Shawn Rosemarin talk about how VMware’s purchase of Deskton will grow its end-user computing business.
VMware Canda president Eric Gales outlines the company’s transformation from a sales an marketing organization to a truly Canadian company
Microsoft once again looks to the U.S. to introduce new Canadian leadership, tapping Janet Kennedy as new president of Microsoft Canada.
Greg Larnder’s departure as Microsoft Canada channel chief is the latest in a series of upheavals for the company’s partner community.
Former Microsoft Canada chief takes the reins at virtualization giant
Microsoft Canada’s Eric Gales, plus Tech Data, Avnet, McAfee, HTG and Michelle Warren in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast
How Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was responsible for the unification of Microsoft’s annual partner events
Microsoft looking for the channel’s help in extending the Office 365 value prop beyond e-mail
Billing questions persist, while VARs and MSPs also face competition from service providers
ChannelBuzz.ca caught up with Microsoft Canada president Eric Gales at the company’s Toronto launch media event for Office 365 to discuss partner implications of the new online productivity suite. On the agenda: how Gales is seeing partners innovate around the new cloud-based service, and how partners are reacting to Microsoft’s decision to retain control of customer billing even with partner-sold 365 implementations.
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11 scenes from the software titan’s annual partner celebration in Toronto
