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Avaya seeing rebound in business for Canadian channel

February 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Avaya’s restructuring issues in 2017 had an impact in the midmarket in Canada which is served by the channel. Those problems have disappeared, and Avaya is bullish about its Canadian channel business moving forward.

New Avaya cloud boss outlines strategy to make Avaya a cloud powerhouse

January 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Mercer Rowe, newly recruited from IBM’s cloud business to put Avaya on a cutting-edge path in the cloud, laid out his plans at the Avaya ENGAGE event this week

New Nutanix channel chief says big changes coming to sales motions

January 25, 2018 Mark Cox 1

Incents for new logos are on the way, but an even bigger change will be Nutanix moving from partners teaming with sales to making partners more autonomous.

HP brings design flair to HP t310 G2 All-in-One Zero Client

January 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

HP responds to a change in both use cases and user expectations with the redesign of their All-in-One Zero Client.

Channel needs to make its decisions on cloud in 2018: Palo Alto Networks

December 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Palo Alto Networks Canadian country manager Rob Lunney emphasizes that both the opportunities and dangers of the cloud for the channel are greater than ever, and partners need to be proactive in adjusting their business models to the future.

SwiftStack offers both native file and object multi-cloud data management in SwiftStack 6

December 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

SwiftStack continues to broaden out from its object storage roots, with the addition of native file capability, which combined with their Cloud Sync feature, lets customers read and write to a single namespace, without a gateway, and to any cloud or on-prem location.