Cohesity hopes to outgrow its new offices in the GTA, which will be filled both with new engineers for the company’s R&D operations, and new sales people working with the partners who are their sole route to market.
Blancco is looking Ingram Micro to help them put together a select channel of MSPs and VARs to offer their erasure-as-a-service offering. Softchoice has been announced as a Canadian channel partner.
Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.
Netwrix has revamped their North American channel program, beefing up education, enablement and support, and as a first step wants to develop a cadre of go-to partners who can do implementations and bring in business on their own.
Netwrix has a hybrid go-to-market model, but has never really been proactive about its channel. That’s about to change, however.
Brent Allen, Pure Storage’s Canadian country manager, was at the Pure//Live event and discussed the company’s progress in Canada with ChannelBuzz.
A Softchoice survey finds that while customers accept Office 365 as a way of licensing software, many aren’t moving their infrastructure into the cloud.
Accellion joins the Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program, allowing its kiteworks platform to allow users to create or access Office 365 files from any device without having to save or upload the file back to the original content source.
PernixData has dealt direct with its channel in the past, but believes the time is right to take on distribution to accelerate sales of its software that improves the efficiency of storage in virtualized environments.
Softchoice adds Dell to their Keystone Managed Services portfolio, to provide a complementary wrap to Dell’s own ProSupport services.
Scale, which is distinct among the hyperconverged vendors with its SMB focus, is not new to Canada, but they have added new staff and resources here, and developed new relationships with key DMRs to take their Canadian business to the next level.
Cisco Canada channel chief David De Abreu on the company’s award winning Canadian partners
A blog post suggests Microsoft will open its Surface tablet to all Australian partners in a trial ahead of the arrival of Surface 2.
In his new role, Khawaja aims to continue building on OnX’s position as a partner that can assist customers at any point in their IT transition.
Microsoft finally giving (a select few U.S.-based) partners access to its tablet devices
Big, enterprise-focused VARs gaining ground while smaller players hurting, Canadian chief says
Longtime partner will solidify vendor’s services offerings in Eastern Canada and enterprise markets.
Dave MacDonald on the solution provider mega-merger, plus Lenovo’s view of BYOD, the Tech Data/ATTO deal, ChannelEyes preview and Microsoft Fair Play Day.
Canada’s biggest reseller looks toward building a cloud platform, add recurring revenues with acquisition
