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Cohesity ups investment in Canada and looks to drive deeper into midmarket

March 18, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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Erasure-as-a-service provider Blancco Technology Group extends Ingram Micro distribution to Canada

October 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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Pure Storage highlights Cisco momentum with new Oracle Data Warehouse solution, and AIRI integrations

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

Pure Storage channel chief Michael Sotnick also highlighted strong company momentum in the Canadian market.

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Netwrix launches new channel program to better enable partners in more proactive channel strategy

March 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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Netwrix on journey from IT auditing solution to visibility platform with Auditor 9.5

November 2, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Netwrix has a hybrid go-to-market model, but has never really been proactive about its channel. That’s about to change, however.

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Pure Storage plays to packed house in Toronto stop on Live tour

October 10, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off

Brent Allen, Pure Storage’s Canadian country manager, was at the Pure//Live event and discussed the company’s progress in Canada with ChannelBuzz.

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Do your customers love Office 365, but avoid the cloud?

June 13, 2017 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

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Accellion sees massive upside in decision to dance with Microsoft

March 31, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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PernixData looks to Promark for first general North American distribution deal

March 3, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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Softchoice becomes first Dell partner to offer a custom managed service for Dell servers

January 29, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off

Softchoice adds Dell to their Keystone Managed Services portfolio, to provide a complementary wrap to Dell’s own ProSupport services.

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Scale Computing ramps up Canadian staff, resources for big 2016 push

November 17, 2015 Mark Cox Comments Off

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.

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David De Abreu, vice president, partner organization, Cisco Canada

Simple the Best: Presenting our Canadian Cisco Partner Summit 2014 Award winners

April 1, 2014 Guest Poster Comments Off

Cisco Canada channel chief David De Abreu on the company’s award winning Canadian partners

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Microsoft To Open Surface Doors to Channel in Australia

October 10, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

A blog post suggests Microsoft will open its Surface tablet to all Australian partners in a trial ahead of the arrival of Surface 2.

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OnX Names Paul Khawaja First Canadian President

September 12, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

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Surface Reseller Program Brings Microsoft Tablets to the Channel

July 2, 2013 Channelnomics Staff Comments Off

Microsoft finally giving (a select few U.S.-based) partners access to its tablet devices

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Tech Data Canada's Rick Reid on picking up Hartco's distribution business

Tech Data sales down, but profits up for Q1

May 30, 2012 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Big, enterprise-focused VARs gaining ground while smaller players hurting, Canadian chief says

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Todd Hsu, now director of consulting services for Canada at Citrix.

Citrix ramps up Canadian services org with TH Consultants purchase

May 8, 2012 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Longtime partner will solidify vendor’s services offerings in Eastern Canada and enterprise markets.

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ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast: Softchoice chief on Unis Lumin buy

November 29, 2011 Robert Dutt Comments Off

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.

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