SMBs largest partner opportunity for Windows XP upgrade: Microsoft
HOUSTON – Microsoft is ending support for the Windows XP operating system on April 8, 2014, and…
A veteran technology and business journalist, Jeff Jedras began his career in technology journalism in the late 1990s, covering the booming (and later busting) Ottawa technology sector for Silicon Valley North and the Ottawa Business Journal, as well as everything from municipal politics to real estate.He later covered the technology scene in Vancouver before joining IT World Canada in Toronto in 2005, covering enterprise IT for ComputerWorld Canada. He would go on to cover the channel as an assistant editor with CDN.His writing has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and a wide range of industry trade publications.
Partners can earn more going to the cloud with Office 365
HOUSTON – Microsoft Corp. has expanded the SKUs of its Office 365 hosted cloud-based productivity suite available through…
Select Canadian resellers will sell Surface this fall
HOUSTON – Partners at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference have been lining up for over two hours this…
Microsoft Canada gets new exec to lead small to midmarket solutions & partners
On the eve of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) starting July 7th in Houston, Microsoft Canada has…
Long View has a new boss as founder Don Bialik hands over the reins
The seventh largest solution provider on CDN’s Top 100 Solution Providers of 2012 list has a new…
Microsoft will let 10 lucky LARs sell Surface tablets; other partners have to wait
On the eve of Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference next week in Houston, the vendor is beginning…
Microsoft retail stores coming to Alberta and British Columbia
The Microsoft store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall is about to get some company, with new retail stores…
Toshiba’s Windows 8 tablet aims for business users
The business market is the target of Toshiba of Canada’s latest entry in the tablet space, the…
HP rejigs PartnerOne tiers, cuts number of certifications
Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking further steps to simplify its umbrella PartnerOne partner program by cutting the number…
Where are they now? Three channel veterans land in new roles
Three veterans of the IT reseller channel, and familiar faces to the Canadian channel, have recently landed…
Virtual data centres called a Made in Canada solution to data residency issues
IT services and solutions provider Compugen of Richmond Hill, Ont. has signed on as the first channel…
Microsoft partners will get Surface tablet deals at WPC
Microsoft partners still can’t sell the vendor’s Surface RT or Surface Pro tablets. But if they’re attending…
Westcon targets data centre with expanded CA Technologies partnership
Value-added distributor Westcon Group is targeting the data centre and cloud computing through an expanded relationship with…
HP’s PC boss gets a new job with a channel focus
A senior executive at Hewlett-Packard Co. is getting a new role, and one with a significant channel…
Kaspersky takes multi-device approach with 2014 security suite
SAN FRANCISCO – Recognizing that many households increasingly use a myriad of devices, with different form factors…