Kevin Peesker

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event

March 22, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Microsoft Canada highlights Canadian AI initiatives at Future Now 2019 event
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.

Computers

EMC vet Kevin Connolly to replace Kevin Peesker as Dell EMC Canada Commercial head

July 18, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on EMC vet Kevin Connolly to replace Kevin Peesker as Dell EMC Canada Commercial head
Connolly acknowledges he will need to work hard to assure Dell EMC Canada customers, partners and staff that a guy coming from the EMC side of the house gets the commercial business, which is mainly legacy Dell.

Computers

New Canadian organizational structure for Dell EMC accelerates successful integration

November 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Canadian organizational structure for Dell EMC accelerates successful integration
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.

Kevin Peesker, president of Dell EMC Canada commercial division and Michael Sharun, country manager for Dell EMC Canada enterprise division.
Channel Programs

Dell, EMC Canadian leadership come together for Dell Canadian Partner Summit

September 14, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Dell, EMC Canadian leadership come together for Dell Canadian Partner Summit
Leaders for the former Dell Canada and EMC Canada come together to bring their combined message to the channel.

Data Centre

Dell lays out aggressive strategy to partners for North America expansion

October 20, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell lays out aggressive strategy to partners for North America expansion
Dell’s North American head Bill Rodrigues laid out Dell’s plans for growth to partners at Dell’s PartnerDirect Summit at Dell World.

SalesBuzz

Selling Dell: Bill Rodrigues, North American President, talks strategy

September 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Selling Dell: Bill Rodrigues, North American President, talks strategy
Dell pledges that the changes made to internal sales and its relationship to the channel will continue, because they have invested so much in it that major change would be foolish.

Big Data

Dell steps up channel marketing activities

September 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell steps up channel marketing activities
At their Canadian partner event on Wednesday, Dell stressed their emphasis on driving more channel marketing activities, sour economy notwithstanding, and emphasized their building of the Future-Ready Enterprise brand with partners.

Dell Canada president Kevin Peesker at the company's Canadian Partner Summit.
Channel Programs

Dell Canada: Channel business growing at 3x market

September 16, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Dell Canada: Channel business growing at 3x market
Dell Canada president Kevin Peesker and channel chief Tara Fine walk through the company’s channel biz by the numbers at Dell’s Canadian Partner Summit.

Cloud

ScreenScape seeking partners for radical digital signage technology

April 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on ScreenScape seeking partners for radical digital signage technology
P.E.I-based ScreenScape offers digital media outlets an offering which is much less expensive than traditional digital signage technology, and while some in the channel may see this as a threat to their business, others will see it as an opportunity.

Cloud

Dell poised to capitalize on today’s tough times: Kevin Peesker

April 9, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell poised to capitalize on today’s tough times: Kevin Peesker
Dell Canada’s president said that while Canada has struggled coming out of the recession, in large part because of an underuse of technology, this offers a great opportunity for Dell today.