Brocade goes all-in with Westcon
The distributor adds Brocade’s SAN portfolio to its line card, now offering the networking vendor’s full portfolio
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.
After driving Intel acquisition, DeWalt leaves McAfee
Two co-presidents will take DeWalt’s place at the Intel-owned security vendor
Sage arming partners for cloud services era
Channel partners getting access to new marketing and training as Sage puts emphasis on online and connected services
Sage says goodbye to Accpac, Peachtree and other historic brands
The business software vendor is undertaking an ambitious rebranding program that will drop product names to build-up the overall Sage brand
OpSource acquisition floats Dimension Data into the cloud
The solution provider is also creating a separate business unit focused on cloud computing
Nortel patent auction may have hit government snag
Industry Canada is reviewing the auction to see if it may apply to the Investment Canada Act
Lenovo tablets coming this summer, but Canadian retail will wait
An executive for the Chinese PC vendor outlines the vendor’s retail strategy for the Canadian market and previews upcoming product releases
Selling the enterprise on combining the CPU and GPU
With its A-Series APUs, AMD is out to convince the commercial market that accelerated graphics aren’t just for gamers
Cloud computing will be going vertical
VMware outlines its cloud vision: custom clouds built to meet the needs of specific industry verticals
Fluke launches $26,500 network analysis tablet
The OptiView XG is a custom-designed network analysis tablet to help engineers keep their networks humming
Hurdles remain to securing the cloud
While most of the technology is available to build secure cloud computing environments, some challenges still remain
HP has $2 billion to help your clients get into the cloud
The vendor has also launched its long-awaited CloudAgile partner program to help resellers and service providers harness the cloud opportunity
HP sees channel opportunity with converged infrastructure play
A host of new enterprise storage and data centre offerings may seem more geared to big business, but Hewlett-Packard says they scale into a compelling channel play
How partners can make money from the cloud
New research from Info-Tech Research Group shows there is money to be made by partners in cloud computing
Is Cisco wise to retreat into the data centre?
By dumping the Flip camera and with the Linksys business reportedly on the block, Cisco risks missing the consumerization of IT boat