Tech Data Canada’s Business Builder Tour will include end user events done in conjunction with local solution providers in three of six stops this year.
The move of the distributor’s facilities from Montreal to a facility of double the size in the Greater Toronto Area will enable more Canadian integration work, better SLAs for more customers, and improved co-ordination with the U.S. distribution facility in Indianapolis.
On the eve of its annual Cloud Summit, Ingram Micro Canada names former solution provider Greg Onoprijenko as its first-ever director of cloud.
Ingram Micro CEO Alain Monié tells solution providers the distributor’s integration into HNA Group will allow it to invest more and with greater latitude.
Stratoscale, which emphasizes its ability to deliver cloud economics to the data centre – rather than the hyperconverged nature of its technology – also made the formal announcement of its PartnerFirst Program for its channel, which is its sole route to market.
New AVG SMB chief Fred Gerritse recently talked with ChannelBuzz about the impact of recent management changes on the company’s strategy and Canadian presence, and about how AVG is now looking to enhance the markets for its SMB solutions and the skills of the partners who sell them.
New, preconfigured NetApp bundles for enterprise Splunk deployments will now also be available through Arrow, which is expected to significantly increase the amount of EF-series all-flash arrays sold in particular, as well as E-series arrays.
Ahead of its annual Cloud Summit next month, Ingram Micro is building out the Canadian team for cloud services and looking add new leadership.
Avnet’s Bruce Gilroy on four new playbooks to help solution providers find success in converged infrastructure, analytics, identity and access management, and IoT.
The distributor is expanding its presence in the unlocked smartphone market, to give solution providers more options, and to keep them well positioned in the event of a shift away from major carrier solidarity on the subsidy model and its phone plans.
Toronto-based distributor Gentek has announced three new vendor relationships. They now carry 3CX phone systems, Patton SmartNode gateways, and VTech’s SIP-based commercial phone offerings.
PROMISE also expects that working with SYNNEX will significantly strengthen them in Canada, and they will also be adjusting some of their product to make it better suit Canada, where SMBs tend to be smaller than in the U.S.
Avnet CIO Steve Phillips weighs in on what CIOs are looking for in 2016, and how solution providers can work more closely with IT.
Ingram Micro Canada chief Mark Snider on a year that saw a new model for the distributor, and looking forward to the Canadian channel in 2016.
PernixData has dealt direct with its channel in the past, but believes the time is right to take on distribution to accelerate sales of its software that improves the efficiency of storage in virtualized environments.
It’s a great deal for Ingram’s stockholders — which include many of their channel partners. But for their businesses, will it be business as usual.
IBM will turn to distributors to help it build custom bundles of its Power-based servers with Linux and top ISV offerings for the channel.
Tech Data Canada president Rick Reid on the year that was 2015, and what the distributor is expecting for 2016.
Avnet Technology Solutions’ Michael Stephens weighs in with ways solution providers can be successful in the growing market for digitalization in the healthcare field.
Stacy Nethercoat, vice president of Tech Data’s TDCloud division, was in the Toronto area on Wednesday to visit Tech Data Canada’s offices, and took some time to speak with ChannelBuzz about the distributor’s cloud strategy, cloud progress, and how it all rolls out in the Canadian market.
