The distributor will connect partners in the U.S. and Canada with vetted app developers with competencies in three key areas: Big Data, mobility, and integration and migration.
In a wide-ranging discussion of where Citrix is headed in the Canadian market, their country manager also identifies key issues with competition, mobility, storage, and the impact of recent announced changes to the partner program.
In a review of Lenovo’s North American quarter from a channel perspective, Chris Frey also talked channel growth, tablets and PCs, and why we are still waiting on the new North American mobility strategy.
HP debuts a series of tablets designed for the commercial segment, part of a push to make mobility a first-class citizen on businesses networks.
The new enhancements to the Hitachi Content Platform extends its value as an integrated content mobility solution.
Aimed at both the enterprise and mid-market, the new apps will be customized, integrated and deployed by partners, and IBM will support partners here with several new tools.
An annual study from Sage finds Canadian SMBs are more bullish about the economy, and about how mobility can help their businesses, even though that comes at a cost of being contacted outside of traditional working hours.
Michael Dell personally presented the results of a survey commissioned by Dell, which found significant obstacles to the adoption of technology, which he said was a good thing for Dell and its partners.
Monday is the kickoff for both the launch in Canada of the full StreamOne e-business platform in Canada and the internal realignment of Tech Data Canada’s sales division along the same lines as the AIS in the U.S.
Cisco’s Roy Purtill and Citrix’s Michael Murphy join the podcast to discuss their companies’ latest
moves in the cloud and mobility spaces respectively.
Taking mobility to a strategic level creates a CEO-level conversation about “business and human outcomes” of IT projects, Citrix exec says at Toronto event.
CompTIA’s Canadian IT Community eyes expanded national focus, membership drive, creation of trustmark for Canadian IT solution providers.
The Margin Rewards program gives an additional discount when the partner does business with new logos, to reward them for bringing in new business. It goes into a discount pool that the partners can use to buy software, which they can pass on to a new end user, or use themselves.
The company has designed a new program for kiteworks, its next-gen enterprise mobile file sharing and collaboration solution, which will ultimately see it shifting to a 100% channel sales model.
Enterprise Mobility Services, a new back-end turnkey middleware service that hosts loadable custom API and data access modules to provide secure access from mobile and desktop apps to enterprise databases, will provide partners with new revenue from end-users.
The big gain for Avaya is that HP ES will greatly amplify the reach of Avaya Private Cloud Services, and they say the channel will have a significant role to play.
ShoreTel says the new virtualized router will let their VARs be more aggressive in small 5-15 unit mobile deployments, because eliminating the router cost for a 10 unit deployment cuts the initial investment in getting 10 users live by two thirds.
KidoZen, a very young startup with a mobile app platform which facilitates the development of enterprise mobility solutions, is seeing customer acceptance as it goes against well-known brands like IBM and SAP.
IBM and Apple have formed a partnership to make iPhones and iPad more valuable enterprise tools, and build a new, growth-oriented act for both companies.
TP-Link has strong global market share in the wireless LAN market, and is now focusing on getting its story out as it builds it team here in Canada.
