Public Sector

Vancouver AWS Premier Consulting Partner TriNimbus sold to Onica in move to create AWS goliath

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

While TriNimbus disappears as a separate entity, it retains legal ownership of the relationship with Canadian clients for privacy law compliance, and Canadian customers will also have access to new offerings, such as around IoT, where TriNimbus was more limited before.

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NetApp unveils many new channel incents and enablement tools – with an ask in return

June 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

NetApp has presented an impressive array of new commitments to partners, but in return in for reciprocal commitment in return, specifically selling NetApp’s newer solution areas.

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Veritas broadens partner opportunities for NetBackup with RestAPI

March 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

In addition to introducing RestAPI for the first time, Veritas also extends the ability to support modern workloads that was first introduced in the previous NetBackup release.

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ISA expands incident response capabilities with preparedness-focused service

December 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Proactive preparation for an attack is the key element of the six-step process at the heart of the new ISA Incident Response Readiness Service.

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Cisco Canada head looking for “next big disruptor” as partner

October 12, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Cisco Canada president Rola Dagher says the next great disruptor may be the next great partner. And there’s an growing chance that partner may be homegrown.

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Cisco innovation chiefs stress ecosystems

September 26, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

From augmented reality to IOT, there are no digital transformation without ecosystems, say leaders of four of Cisco’s nine global innovation centres.

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Druva continues strategic relationship focus with Carahsoft deal targeting public sector

March 22, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Carahsoft, which is very strong in the federal government space, is bringing Druva onto its GSA schedule.

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New Pivot3 Canada country manager Grant Aitken looks to raise company visibility

January 12, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Pivot3’s hyper-converged Canadian business is much stronger today in the physical security space than in compute, and addressing that is one of ex-VMware Canadian country manager’s Aitken’s top priorities.

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AWS launches Canadian region

December 8, 2016 Mark Cox 3

AWS formally announces that its Canadian region has now gone live, which the company confidently believes will significantly expand their business and the opportunities for Canadian partners.

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New Canadian organizational structure for Dell EMC accelerates successful integration

November 16, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Dell EMC has made a restructuring in Canada into Enterprise and Commercial Sections, which are very close to pre-combination EMC and Dell respectively. They are crediting this as a key reason for strong performance over the last nine weeks.

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Eddie Franklin, senior vice president for public sector and vertical markets at Synnex

Synnex eyes full Canadian GovSolv rollout

November 15, 2016 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Synnex public sector leader Eddie Franklin shares the distributor’s plans and goals for bringing its public sector practice to Canada.

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Microsoft exhorts Canadian partners to double down on innovation at WPC

July 11, 2016 Mark Cox 1

Microsoft’s announcement of its Canadian IMPACT award winners was a key part of the innovation theme at the regional Canadian keynote on the first day of the 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.

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Lenovo launches new Chrome, Windows N-series laptops for K-12

May 10, 2016 Mark Cox 1

The new models include Lenovo’s first Yoga form factor for the K-12 market. Combat kits for the new offerings are also coming to channel partners.

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Nutanix aggressively claiming mantle of ‘only true hyperconverged player’

September 10, 2015 Mark Cox 1

At a customer event in Toronto Wednesday, Nutanix presented the audience with a full-throated positioning of themselves as well ahead of their competition, and also gave an update on their progress in Canada

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SYNNEX looking to expand GovSolv presence in Canada

April 29, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

GovSolv is the largest of SYNNEX’s value-added practice areas in the U.S. So far, its impact in Canada has been limited to education, but the distributor is looking to change that.

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New Canadian HP Security Operations Centre to strengthen HP’s competitive position

March 27, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

HP’s first Canadian SOC will overcome objections about a lack of Canadian delivery from some customers, notably in the federal government.

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“Hey, You, Get off of my Cloud!” Are You Complying with PIPEDA?

February 11, 2015 Guest Poster Comments Off

Avnet Technology Solutions poses some thought-provoking questions for Canadian solution providrs building out their cloud business in this contributed blog.

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Cisco's Andrew Sage and his connected baseketball on stage at One Ingram Micro

Cisco: Focus on verticals for IoE success

September 22, 2014 Robert Dutt Comments Off

VARs should focus on their existing customers to find the right verticals to target with specific Internet of Things application, a Cisco executive says.

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