Accenture/Avanade, Bulletproof, winners at Microsoft’s global Partner of the Year Awards

Katie McAuliff working to broaden partner ecosystem

Jim Estill reflects on organic growth

Plus, technology certifications and Mac versus Windows users

Hubert Kelly, Rick Reid and Dave MacDonald make big news

Big Blue remains focused on its channel

Fiaaz Walji helped put Websense on the Canadian map

Mark Scott and his technology-as-a-service model

Wendy Hayes pleased with partners and innovations

Planning for disaster recovery

Plus, more on the IT skills shortage and encryption key rights

New Vista for Business has a promo from Ingram Micro Canada

The Stratus ftServer 4400 is big, pricey, standard Linux, and unstoppable, surviving dire hardware failures without a hiccup

When companies hide crime, they harm themselves indirectly: burdensome regulations, popular backlash, criminal impunity, glamorization of cybercrime

Bad breaches, ghastly gaffes and five people we’d like to forget

Ingram Micro Canada and Infocus partner on promotion