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[ November 14, 2025 ] Aryaka announces major upgrade to their Unified SASE as a Service with Unified SASE as a Service 2.0 Artificial Intelligence
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[ November 14, 2025 ] Duality Technologies enables secure GenAI workflows on NVIDIA GPUs Artificial Intelligence
[ November 14, 2025 ] HPE and partners launch Quantum Scaling Alliance to make quantum computing breakthroughs HPC
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BlackBerry delivers strong messaging around vision and roadmap to channel partners

October 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

BlackBerry’s recent Partner Summit had clear objectives of articulating the company’s vision around their new Spark platform to partners, together with both the technology roadmap and the sales strategy around it. They also wanted to introduce the new sales leadership in Canada to partners.

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Cisco beefs up SMB wireless portfolio

March 29, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

The highlight of the multiple product announcement is the upgrading of the Cisco Mobility Express management software, to deliver true enterprise functionality at a small business price point.

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Dell snaps up EMC in $67B US mega-deal

October 13, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Dell and EMC execs say the combined company will be an IT powerhouse from the SMB to the largest enterprise.

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Steve Benvenuto, senior director of business development for the worldwide partner organization at Cisco

Cisco scraps annual audits for top partners

April 30, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Partners will still require a full audit to make it to upper tiers of the Cisco partner program, but once in, will only have to re-audit every three years.

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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.

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