Open Source

Mark Enzweiler, senior vice president of global channel sales and alliances at Red Hat
Channel Programs

Red Hat channel chief: Time to build an open source practice

April 8, 2015 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat channel chief: Time to build an open source practice
“Don’t miss this wave,” Mark Enzweiler tells partners as Red Hat prepares to invest in helping partners sell open source as innovation, not commoditization.

Cloud

Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13

February 10, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Asigra broadens converged data protection in Version 13
The long-time cloud backup solution’s new features include Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service enablement, open infrastructure support for FreeBSD on ZFS and CentOS, and integration with Linear Tape File System for archiving.

Big Data

Cisco Canada showing strong momentum in security

January 21, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cisco Canada showing strong momentum in security
Cisco has followed up momentum from the acquisition of Sourcefire, adding new capabilities and services and greatly strengthening Cisco Canada’s security team.

Eran Farajun, executive vice president, Asigra
Cloud

Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs

June 18, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Asigra looks to drop hardware costs for MSPs
Backup software vendor Asigra builds an open-source stack that it says can cut MSP’s storage costs on backup-as-a-service in half

Randy Milthorpe, business development manager for HP Cloud at HP Canada.
Channel Programs

HP brings cloud partner programs to Canada

May 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP brings cloud partner programs to Canada
HP Canada introduces new partner programs for cloud builders, and those who seek to resell HP’s public and managed cloud offerings.

HP Helion
Cloud

HP announces $1B Helion cloud push around OpenStack

May 8, 2014 Robert Dutt 1
HP Helion brand will include two OpenStack distributions, its CloudSystem converged infrastructure offering, a development platform and professional services.

New Red Hat North American channel chief D. Martin.
Channel Programs

Red Hat names D. Martin North American channel chief

April 2, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat names D. Martin North American channel chief
Open source giant Red Hat has found its new North American channel sales leader in former Cisco and VCE channel exec D. Martin.

HP enters the cloud WiFi market
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HP enters the cloud-managed WiFi fray

March 31, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on HP enters the cloud-managed WiFi fray
HP introduces its first cloud-managed WiFi offering, pitching SMB on ease of management and simplicity.

Mark Enzweiler, vice president of global channels at Red Hat
Channel Programs

Red Hat searches for new North American channel chief

January 27, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Red Hat searches for new North American channel chief
The maturing open source software vendor would benefit from a veteran channel chief to replace Roger Egan, a top Red Hat Canada partner says.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst spoke on cloud community issues at RHNAPC
Cloud

Participation trumps technology in cloud: Red Hat CEO

January 14, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Participation trumps technology in cloud: Red Hat CEO
Solution providers looking to place bets in cloud efforts should consider the nature of the community over the nature of its technology, Jim Whitehust says.