SAP opens 4600 enterprise customers to the channel
Business software vendor is carving out a large chunk of the enterprise market and making it channel exclusive
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.
Electronic signature service solution wins IBM recognition
Montreal’s Silanis Technology was the only Canadian winner of a Beacon award at IBM’s PartnerWorld Leadership conference
2011 Canadian PC shipments will take Sandy Bridge hit: IDC
The forecast for 2011 isn’t good, but on the plus side IDC Canada says tablets aren’t cannibalizing PC sales
E Ink pushing boundaries of display technology
Having conquered the digital book, the company is looking for new applications for its digital paper technology rn
Printer NMSO shake-up: HP and Oki are in, Ricoh is out
The new federal government National Master Standing Offer for monochrome standalone printers is out, and there have been some changes
Partners gain cloud specializations and new co-marketing initiative
Reporting from IBM’s 2011 PartnerWorld Leadership conference in Orlando
IBM Global Services to the channel: We need you
Big Blue’s global services boss has ambitious growth targets to meet, and he needs the channel’s help
IBM wants partners to specialize in the cloud
Big Blue has launched cloud and security specializations to help partners differentiate in this emerging opportunity
Big Blue revamps co-marketing programs with $100 million investment
Believing enabling efficient and speedy partner markerting is crucial, IBM has launched a redeveloped co-marketing program
Citrix and the virtualization channel opportunity
The virtualization vendor outlines the channel opportunity around cloud computing and desktop virtualization
Cloud services model gives Citrix channel new route to market
A channel-driven cloud services model is helping Citrix scale deeper into the SMB than ever before
Citrix partners with Cisco, and why resellers shouldn’t fear the cloud
Cisco may have an alliance with VMware and EMC, but a partnership with Citrix could see its partners selling Xen Desktop
SAP brings Business ByDesign to Canada
The software vendor is looking for a new breed of partners to bring its on-demand ERP to Canadian businesses
Microsoft is killing the cloud
Its consumer campaign is sowing market confusion and diving the final nail in the popular buzzword
Iolo System Mechanic 10
A comprehensive, but needy, system utility program