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Channel Innovation Awards offer new opportunities for recognition

UPDATE: The Channel Innovation Award deadline has been extended one week. It’s summer time and the living is easy….unless you’ve missed the deadline to submit...

The Reddit Recap – Big vendor headaches, onboarding check-list, MSP and chill

What do you do when a big vendor tries to go direct with one of your clients behind your back? And are you a "chill" MSP?

Hashtag Trending – Creepy deepfake; The robotics revolution; New York’s “Supernode”

A disturbing new deepfake app is making its rounds, a new report about how robots will change the world is getting people worried again, and New York’s strategy to provide affordable broadband continues to turn heads.

We can do as a service too, says HPE, as its partners help grow GreenLake by 275%

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) channel partners helped grow GreenLake, the company’s hybrid cloud, data centre and private cloud portfolio offered as a service, by...

Learn how to manage the Canadian channel in a multinational context

While the pursuit and achievement of global brand consistency and impact may be a good thing, "global and local" brings to marketing execs persistent...

Collaboration and security major themes at Ingram Micro’s Partner Experience Roadshow

Ingram Micro held its 2019 Partner Experience Roadshow recently in Toronto, and it was clear that collaboration across the Canadian tech industry has become the norm.

The Reddit Recap – Webroot SecureAnywhere scare; MSP security; Choosing Datto

The Reddit recap highlights last week’s top trending posts on the r/msp subreddit.

Kaspersky rebranding unrelated to government ban, says executive

A lot has changed in the cybersecurity space since the 1990’s, which is why Kaspersky Lab recently announced a “complete rebranding” of the organization, according to the company’s head of marketing and partner marketing for North America.

The Reddit Recap – Patch management woes; Solarwinds RMM; Veeam or no Veeam?

The Reddit recap highlights last week’s top trending posts on the r/msp subreddit. This is the largest MSP-related group on Reddit with nearly 40,000 members. Looking to find a quick answer to a question? This is the place to be.

Channel snapshot will reveal new business opportunities

The marketplace is becoming more and more competitive. This means channel players must evolve — learning and growing is now not so much a...

CIRA looks to expand DNS security in Canada, launches first firewall API integration

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) recently announced an API integration designed to provide additional protection against cyber threats for Canadian SMBs.

Dell updates XPS and Precision business laptop lineups

Dell announced its fully updated business line of laptops at Computex 2019 held in Taipei, Taiwan last week. Dell XPS Dell's premium XPS lineup overlaps both...

The Reddit Recap – A crooked accountant; Valuable reference material for MSPs; StorageCraft data loss

The Reddit recap highlights last week’s top trending posts on the r/msp subreddit. This is the largest MSP-related group on Reddit with nearly 40,000 members.

Overall Canadian IT spending is down, but software and AI spending is going up – way up, says Gartner

Overall Canadian IT spending is down, but software and AI spending is going up - way up

Exclusive: New NPD Group data helps VARs navigate complex security landscape

New data from NPD Group shows a sharp 18 per cent increase in the number of security software solutions going through distributors from 2017 and 2018.

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