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CDN Morning Briefing, August 24 – A Channel Virtual Recognition Luncheon and news recap

To keep up with the firehose of news and press releases, we’ve decided to deliver some extra…

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CDN Morning Briefing, August 24 – A Channel Virtual Recognition Luncheon and news recap

To keep up with the firehose of news and press releases, we’ve decided to deliver some extra…

CDN Morning Briefing, August 13, 2020 – VMware layoffs, plus news from Pure Storage, Solarwinds, and more

CDN Morning Briefing, July 23, 2020 – A good ol’ news roundup

From Microsoft’s latest earnings to updates on various partner programs, today’s Morning Briefing has got it all.

Commvault Metallic update: nine months later

While Metallic was initially aimed at the midmarket, Commvault says that they’ve seen much more interest than anticipated from enterprises

Microsoft Inspire 2020: Azure Lighthouse updates, expanded partnerships and new playbooks

There are 30 pages worth of announcements in Microsoft’s “Book of News” this year. The few pages dedicated to customer and partner enablement consist of Azure Lighthouse updates, a pair of partnership expansions, and two new Microsoft playbooks. Let’s break it all down.

Managed Services Videos

President to President with Luc Villeneuve, Red Hat Canada

Tour PwC Canada’s Digital Experience Centre

BitTitan CEO on the MSP “iceberg” effect and how to enable the channel [video]

Microsoft Canada on alternative lucrative business models for partners [video]

Best Managed Services Silver and Bronze winners at CEA 2015

Best Security Solution at CDN Channel Elite Awards 2015

Best Mobile Solution at CDN Channel Elite Awards 2015

Solution Provider of the Year at CDN Channel Elite Awards 2015

Managed Services News

The four best features from Windows Intune

Intune is meant to be used by any business that doesn’t have a centralized way to orchestrate PCs and security

Vendor has US$115M in free software for MSPs

Ottawa’s N-able expanded its freemium program recently in a push to help its managed service provider partners grow their customer bases

Equinix creates market for data centre clients to trade services

Equinix is building an online marketplace where its customers can buy and sell services from each other

HP’s new virtualization servers provide path to cloud

HP’s new VirtualSystem for Microsoft is based on Hyper-V virtualization technology

With managed services at inflection point, NetEnrich eyes Canada

The infrastructure management company is gearing-up for growth, and is looking to grow its Canadian channel

SMBs are ready to embrace managed services

N-able wants to help managed services partners break down the barriers to SMB growth, and it has a $115 million freemium program to help

Amazon adds free encryption to storage service

Server Side Encryption protects data stored in Amazon’s data centre

New channel program for managed services providers

Level Platforms releases a certification program for managed services providers

LPI develops a major new features for its Managed Workplace

New enhancements to its real time remote management tools highlight the latest release

Mitigating risk in an overheated outsourcing market

Outsourcing means its more critical than ever to monitor vendor performance

Cloud computing for consumers: the downsides

Consider these elements of going into the cloud before you trust the hype

Amazon adds in-memory caching to its cloud

ElastiCache will help users speed up database performance

Managed services provider gets into worldwide virtualization

Ottawa’s N-able achieves VMware Ready status

Cloud computing: More IT leaders turn to SaaS ERP

The momentum behind SaaS ERP is easy to understand in light of the benefits it offers

HP offers integrated management for IT services

Hewlett-Packard goes meta with a service for managing other IT services

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