Office 365

Greg Myers, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Tech Data Canada.
Cloud

Tech Data Canada continues to mature cloud offerings

October 4, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Tech Data Canada continues to mature cloud offerings
Tech Data Canada adds new vendors and functionality to its StreamOne cloud store, looks to increase training and support for partners.

Cloud

Metalogix unveils SaaS solution to manage content across multiple collaboration platforms

September 26, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Metalogix unveils SaaS solution to manage content across multiple collaboration platforms
Metalogix believes demand for this will be strong in environments with many collaboration solutions, and think it will be especially strong as a partner play.

Managed Services

Datto deepens RMM integrations, Canadian datacentre presence

August 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datto deepens RMM integrations, Canadian datacentre presence
Data protection vendor Datto has begun more significant integrations with RMM vendors, announcing a full integration with LabTech by ConnectWise. The company also stepped up its Canadian presence with the announcement of a second Canadian data centre, in Calgary.

Cloud

Ingram Micro expands Canadian cloud sales team

August 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ingram Micro expands Canadian cloud sales team
Ingram Micro’s Canada’s Canadian cloud sales resources increase by three more to a total of eight, up from two at the beginning of the year.

Channel Programs

Sage continues strategy to build up channel business

July 28, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage continues strategy to build up channel business
Sage continued on the more channel-friendly course laid down last year after Stephen Kelly took over as CEO, and while the strategy itself is not new, the company believes it made some major steps this year towards meeting its goals.

Cloud

Sage looks to disruptive product strategy to leapfrog competition

July 27, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sage looks to disruptive product strategy to leapfrog competition
At Sage Summit, Sage has outlined to partners a much more detailed roadmap than it has ever done before, in order to get the partners to understand fully where things are going, to buy into the changes, and engage closely with Sage on them.

Cloud

Actiance sees big benefits in Skype for Business certification

July 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Actiance sees big benefits in Skype for Business certification
Apart from the typical benefits from certified status of Microsoft’s validation with customers, Microsoft’s policies of encouraging partnerships is generating new business for Actiance from other Microsoft vendor partners, and developing a higher value-add channel for them.

Cloud

Nectar unveils QoS automation solution for collaboration environments on Cisco networks

July 18, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Nectar unveils QoS automation solution for collaboration environments on Cisco networks
Nectar also announced a second new offering, around Microsoft Skype, with a suite of cloud enablement solutions that parallels ones they had previously offered for on-prem deployments.

Channel Programs

Canada still a land grab opportunity for the channel: Microsoft

July 14, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Canada still a land grab opportunity for the channel: Microsoft
Microsoft Canada channel chief Jason Brommet laid out what the company sees as the new opportunities in Canada and how recent moves, including the Canadian data centres going live, will help partners succeed. He also indicated that channel resources in Canada are being significantly enhanced.

Cloud

Momentum, opportunity highlight Microsoft Office 365 messaging at WPC

July 14, 2016 Mark Cox 3
Office 365 business continues to show impressive growth, although Microsoft is impressing upon partners that the real money here doesn’t come from selling subscriptions, but in integrating it into other solutions and building their own custom offerings on top.