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Cutting through the noise for Canadians VARs and MSPs. News, analysis and insight for the Canadian IT solution provider community.

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In this guest blog, Avaya's Tammie Briscoe shares thoughts on how management will think about contact centre agents, how they will optimize workforces, and where AI will play a role. channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/tree-…
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Barracuda revamps SASE offering with SecureEdge solution channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/barra…

Barracuda revamps SASE offering with SecureEdge solution

Barracuda’s new platform gives partners a strong network security offering that many Barracuda partners are not selling today.

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Trend Micro’s SMB Sales Manager Tammy Allen confronts challenges in Canada channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/trend…

Trend Micro’s SMB Sales Manager Tammy Allen confronts challenges in Canada

Trend Micro’s Canadian sales manager for SMBs and MSP discusses the challenges these kinds of partners face, and what Trend is doing to assist them.

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Ingram Micro folds Cloud Marketplace into Xvantage channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/ingra…

Ingram Micro folds Cloud Marketplace into Xvantage

As it brings its market for cloud offerings into its new digital twin platform, Ingram Micro boasts solution providers will be able to use one cart to provision customers with hardware, software an…

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Entro comes out of stealth with new method of guarding secrets channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/entro…
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HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/hpe-m…

HPE makes major enhancements to Ezmeral Data Fabric Software

HPE has greatly broadened the open source tools for Ezmeral it provides customers and partners, which have largely come into the company through acquisitions.

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New NetApp All-Flash SAN Array A-series highly new storage announcements channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/new-n…

New NetApp All-Flash SAN Array A-series highly new storage announcements

The block storage-focused A-series announcement is complemented by others updating their StorageGrid software and adding a new StorageGrid appliance, the extension of their ONTAP One software, a ne…

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Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/panas…

Panasas reorients growth strategy around new product and channel strategies

Panasas has substantially evolved their portfolio in the last few years to become much more of a software company, and is working on skilling up their channel further to sell the new solutions.

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Intel Canada channel chief Phil Vokins joins us on the podcast to talk about what's new in Intel's workstation Xeon processors and partner opportunity in the workstation space. channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/intel…

Intel’s new Xeon W processors and the expanding workstation market

Intel Canada channel chief Phil Vokins joins us on the podcast to talk about what’s new in Intel’s workstation Xeon processors and partner opportunity in the workstation space.

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APT groups muddying the waters for MSPs channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/apt-g…

APT groups muddying the waters for MSPs

A quick dive into the murky world of cyberespionage and other growing threats facing managed service providers – and their customers

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A new survey highlights the growing risk of ransomware, why some companies suffer repeat attacks, and what steps to take to protect client data. channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/ranso…
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Dell announces major security, efficiency improvements to PowerStore software channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/dell-…

Dell announces major security, efficiency improvements to PowerStore software

Other storage families in the Dell portfolio are also announcing some upgrades, but PowerStore is the major one this time around.

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Epson's Kaila Murphy explains the decision to reduce the number of printers in its WorkForce lineup and what it means for partners in this edition of the podcast. channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/the-e…
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Informatica opens new ISV partner program to early access channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/infor…
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Ingram Micro expands Xvantage to vendor community channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/ingra…

Ingram Micro expands Xvantage to vendor community

Ingram Micro’s digital platform gets its third pillar as the distributor invites its first vendors into Xvantage, promising greater business insights and a streamlined way of onboarding new o…

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Okta making creative use of channel in Canadian market channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/okta-…

Okta making creative use of channel in Canadian market

Okta, which is in the process of moving its main Canadian office, is driving a channel strategy in Canada that makes broader use of partners than in the U.S.

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Riverbed unveils new ACE program for MSPs selling Alluvio product family channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/river…

Riverbed unveils new ACE program for MSPs selling Alluvio product family

The new MSP program, the first shoe to drop in what will be a complete restructuring of Riverbed’s partner program by the end of this year, is focused on broadening Riverbed’s presence downmarket f…

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Salesforce caps off torrent of announcements with Slack GPT and expansion of Accenture partnership channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/sales…

Salesforce caps off torrent of announcements with Slack GPT and expansion of Accenture partnership

Salesforce concluded a series of announcements over the last several days with two specifically around Generative AI, including Slack GPT, which will bring Generative AI to Slack, and an expansion …

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Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/zoho-…

Zoho Canada SMB survey shows optimism, but some concerns lurk in the data

62% of SMBs were positive about the future, although growth expectations for most were tempered, and views about data privacy raise some concerns.

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Aruba lays out strategy vision for channel partners channelbuzz.ca/2023/05/aruba…

Aruba lays out strategy vision for channel partners

Aruba’s channel leaders summed up the importance of the Atmosphere event for partners, and gave an indication of where partner strategy is headed.

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