Podcasts

The Buzz: HPE Discover keynote day: self-driving networks take centre stage as HPE makes its AI-era argument

HPE CEO Antonio Neri and networking chief Rami Rahim made the case Tuesday at HPE Discover 2026 that the network – not the GPU, not the server – is the real foundation of the AI era. Here are the announcements that matter for Canadian IT solution providers.

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It all comes back to storage: ESTI’s Earl Gosick on AI infrastructure, cyber resilience, and the Prairie data center opportunity

Storage specialist Earl Gosick of ESTI Consulting Services brings a 35-year Prairies perspective to Dell Technologies World, covering AI infrastructure economics, the reality of cyber recovery, and a genuinely compelling data center opportunity building in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

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Outcomes before hardware: Microserve CTO Nigel Brown on AI readiness, tokenomics, and resilience from Dell Technologies World

Microserve CTO Nigel Brown was on the floor at Dell Technologies World last week and came away with a practitioner’s take on what the AI announcements really mean for Canadian partners – and the clients who aren’t quite ready for them yet.

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The Buzz: Dell warns of incoming supply constraints, CIRA targets MSPs, and an active zero-day threat

On today’s episode of The Buzz, we look past the keynote glitz at Dell Technologies World to focus on a stark warning regarding incoming hardware supply constraints. Plus, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) prepares a major push into the MSP channel, and security teams are warning of active exploitation of the PraisonAI authentication bypass vulnerability.

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The Buzz: inforcer brings shadow AI monitoring to MSPs, SUSE launches sovereign partner specialization, and Cayosoft targets the Microsoft identity migration gap

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The Buzz: ServiceNow makes the case for “Agentic Business” as it repositions as an AI governance platform

At Knowledge 2026 in Las Vegas, ServiceNow is moving past the AI pilot conversation entirely. A new “Go Live AI” satisfaction guarantee, a live prompt injection demo, and FedEx production numbers are ServiceNow’s argument that the agentic era is operational — and that governance is the new competitive moat.

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On site at SAS Innovate: SAS Canada’s Ryan MacDonald on AI governance, the partner opportunity, and fifty years of trust

What does fifty years of analytics heritage mean in a market that reinvents itself every eighteen months? Recorded on site at SAS Innovate 2026, Robert Dutt sits down with Ryan MacDonald, managing director of SAS Canada, to dig into the week’s major AI governance and agentic AI announcements, the state of Canadian enterprise AI maturity, and why the channel is SAS’s answer to the SMB opportunity.