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New channel market data provides clues for navigating the rough road ahead

Growth in Canadian channel revenue in the first five months of 2020 is keeping pace with the same period in the last few years. However, the outlook for the remainder of the year remains precarious.

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New channel market data provides clues for navigating the rough road ahead

Growth in Canadian channel revenue in the first five months of 2020 is keeping pace with the same period in the last few years. However, the outlook for the remainder of the year remains precarious.

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CDN Morning Briefing, July 9 – The channel’s guideposts to the ‘new normal’

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Zoom launches Hardware-as-a-Service, but only in the U.S.

Zoom Video Communications this week announced the launch of Zoom Hardware-as-a-service (HaaS), but only in the U.S.

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Reddit discusses franchised MSP blunders, network performance tools, and returning to the office

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Commvault and Microsoft sign multi-year deal to deliver Metallic SaaS with Azure

Microsoft Azure is entering its heavy metal phase.

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No sweat selling Office 2007

Two Microsoft partners are confident customers will adopt new system

Oracle has surprised the Linux community by announcing it will provide the same enterprise class support for the open source operating system as it gives for its database, applications and middleware.

OnX hopes split will pay off

One of the country’s largest solution providers is carving its VAR business from the $60-million firm’s managed services operations in hopes of boosting its revenues and share price.