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Exabeam rebuilds its MSSP commercial model to fix the economics of managed SIEM

Exabeam says it used to treat MSSPs like regular resellers, with deal-by-deal discounts that made margin predictability nearly impossible. Global channel chief Craig Patterson and senior director of service provider alliances Peter Stratis join In The Channel to explain what changed – and what it means for Canadian service providers building managed SIEM practices.

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Michelle Biase on what HP Canada learned from a year of seeding AI PCs to partners

Michelle Biase has been president and managing director of HP Canada for eighteen months. In that time, the company has grown its Canadian sales team by fifty percent, shifted to a unified One HP go-to-market model, and watched AI PC sales accelerate to nearly two-thirds of PC volume. In this episode, she sits down with In the Channel to talk about what partners actually did with early AI PC seeding units, how HP IQ is landing in the channel, the practical realities of memory-driven pricing volatility, and why partners should be paying more attention to the software and solutions layer.

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The Buzz: TD SYNNEX names Chris Fabes in Canada, Huntress flags Azure CLI password spray attacks, and MSSP retention moves beyond salary

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The Buzz: OpenAI launches partner network, Carbon60 makes the MSP 501, and RecordPoint goes channel-first

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HPE channel chief Jenson on Discover 2026, the Canadian angle, and what partners should stop doing

HPE vice president of North America channel and partner ecosystem Jeremiah Jenson sits down with ChannelBuzz.ca for the final word on HPE Discover 2026, from the show floor temperature to the specific opportunities he sees for Canadian partners in networking, hybrid cloud, and the “great VM reset.”

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Xerox IT Solutions’ Curtis Dery on HPE’s financing moves, channel-only expansion, and why AI is a ‘digital goldmine’

Xerox IT Solutions Canada executive vice president Curtis Dery joins In The Channel at HPE Discover 2026 to discuss the partner perspective on HPE’s new 90/9 financing, expanded credit lines, channel-only product expansion, and why he believes AI has created a level playing field for partners for the first time in their careers.

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Long View’s Dave Frederickson on HPE’s rediscovered mojo, the quote-cycle crisis, and why AI starts with data

Former HP Canada ESSN lead and now Long View Systems EVP Dave Frederickson joins us live from HPE Discover 2026 with a perspective on the partner program, the real cost of the quote-cycle crisis, and why his AI conversations still start at the data layer.