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Solution Provider News

Citrix North American partner of the year XenTegra setting up shop in Canada

February 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Citrix North American partner of the year XenTegra setting up shop in Canada
Citrix-focused solution provider XenTegra, who just won Citrix’s North American partner of the year, is coming into the Canadian market — at Citrix’s request.

Partnerships

New IGEL partnership key for Teradici as they move well beyond PCoIP protocol

February 7, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on New IGEL partnership key for Teradici as they move well beyond PCoIP protocol
Teradici, like IGEL, was originally a hardware company that transitioned into a software company as the market changed, and they are looking from big things from this, and other new partnerships as the company continues its focus on a multi-cloud strategy.

Security

vArmour to hire Canadian-based resource as part of major sales and marketing expansion from new funding round

February 6, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on vArmour to hire Canadian-based resource as part of major sales and marketing expansion from new funding round
vArmour raises another $44 million in a Series E funding round to address what they see as a massive opportunity, and are investing most of it in sales and marketing resources as a result, including hiring a resident person in Canada for the first time.

Mobility

ThinPrint partners with Stratodesk to bring enterprise plug and play printing to Citrix Workspace Hub

January 8, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on ThinPrint partners with Stratodesk to bring enterprise plug and play printing to Citrix Workspace Hub
The ThinPrint Hub collaboration, which also involves NComputing on the hardware side, is not designed exclusively for larger enterprises, but those will likely be the ones who see the most value in it.

Cloud

Cloudistics looks to drive growth with Lenovo partnership and new tools

December 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cloudistics looks to drive growth with Lenovo partnership and new tools
Cloud software platform provider Cloudistics has had a strong year, both increasing their own channel significantly and entering into a new partnership with Lenovo. Their software now powers the Lenovo ThinkAgile CP Series, which has a joint go-to-market motion, and Cloudistics expects it will significantly expand their business, outside of North America in particular.

Storage

Tintri sends message to market with first product release since being acquired by DDN

December 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Tintri sends message to market with first product release since being acquired by DDN
In addition to their Tintri Global Center 4.0 release, Tintri by DDN announces new staff and resource additions, as they continue their rebuild from the collapse that preceded their being purchased by DDN in September.

Cloud

Riverbed announces new SteelConnect and SteelFusion integrations with Microsoft at Ignite

September 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Riverbed announces new SteelConnect and SteelFusion integrations with Microsoft at Ignite
Riverbed adds support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, and their newly announced Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN.

Hardware

Scale Computing, APC bring Micro Data Center in a box solution to North America through Ingram Micro

September 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scale Computing, APC bring Micro Data Center in a box solution to North America through Ingram Micro
The joint solution leverages Schneider Electric’s offerings, to provide a solution of racks, power, and HCI that Ingram Micro will integrate as well as distribute.

Data Centre

Server, storage success in Q2 show continued Dell EMC progress on integration journey

September 13, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Server, storage success in Q2 show continued Dell EMC progress on integration journey
Kevin Connolly, President of Commercial Sales at Dell EMC Canada gives his take on why the company had another strong quarter, what’s happening in the market, and where Dell EMC still has room for substantial growth in Canada.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2018
Cloud

VMware rolls security into core with vSphere Platinum

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on VMware rolls security into core with vSphere Platinum
LAS VEGAS — Pat Gelsinger does not have a lot nice to say about the state of security. In his VMworld 2018 keynote here, VMware’s CEO called the state of security “broken today” because “the