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The Buzz: Cisco Canada launches sovereign critical infrastructure, ScanSource buys MicroAge for $220.5 million, and ESET Canada names cybersecurity scholarship winners

August 25, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The Buzz: Cisco Canada launches sovereign critical infrastructure, ScanSource buys MicroAge for $220.5 million, and ESET Canada names cybersecurity scholarship winners
Cisco Canada launches its Sovereign Critical Infrastructure portfolio with Bell as lead partner, ScanSource acquires MicroAge for $220.5 million to augment partner services, and ESET Canada names three Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship winners. Plus CrowdStrike expands Project QuiltWorks to SMBs, Palo Alto Networks and NTT Data sign a $1 billion pact, and Auvik promotes Daniel Ochoa to CRO.

Channel Programs

Palo Alto’s Michael Khoury on what’s actually changing for partners in the NextWave revamp

April 10, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Palo Alto’s Michael Khoury on what’s actually changing for partners in the NextWave revamp
Palo Alto Networks’ Michael Khoury joins In The Channel to walk through the ground-up redesign of the NextWave partner program – from the elimination of discount caps to the new platform adoption incentives and the CyberArk identity opportunity.

Networking

‘New Extreme’ Networks emphasizes resurgent Canada momentum at Toronto event

March 25, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on ‘New Extreme’ Networks emphasizes resurgent Canada momentum at Toronto event
Extreme Networks just laid out their strategy moving forward for an audience of customers and partners at the Toronto stop on their Extreme NOW tour.

Big Data

Palo Alto Networks unveils ‘super-EDR’ capability with Cortex platform and key Cortex XDR application

February 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks unveils ‘super-EDR’ capability with Cortex platform and key Cortex XDR application
Cortex is the next-generation of Palo Alto Networks’ Application Framework, with the ability to create a much deeper data lake and analyze it more effectively. The newly announced Traps 6.0 endpoint solution contributes to this, as it now gathers data like an EDR solution for the first time.

Networking

New DNS security service a major highlight of PAN-OS 9.0 release

February 15, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on New DNS security service a major highlight of PAN-OS 9.0 release
Another key software addition is a new Policy Optimizer, that uses network intelligence to find and remove legacy firewall rules that create security issues.

Channel Programs

Palo Alto Networks emphasizes new services opportunities in major partner program overhaul

February 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks emphasizes new services opportunities in major partner program overhaul
This is the first major ‘tweak’ of Palo Alto Networks’ partner program since its inception, and the changes are extremely significant, and multi-faceted.

Networking

Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney

January 21, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney
Palo Alto Networks’ Canadian country manager talks about the challenges his company faces, how it has adapted its strategies to meet them, and what the channel needs to do to keep pace.

Cloud

Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities

December 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities
As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.

Networking

Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin

September 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto Networks adds massive firewall scalability to Panorama with Interconnect plugin
Panorama network security management can now handle tens of thousands of firewalls from a single server, up from 1000 per server before.

Mobility

Aruba announces first SD-WAN branch solution

June 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Aruba announces first SD-WAN branch solution
Aruba extends their software-defined architecture to the branch, with the new Cloud Managed 7000 Series Branch Gateways, as well as new Aruba Central abilities to manage them.