An IT channel guide to Back to School 2010
Find out what’s hot for back to school 2010, where students will be spending and where you should be focusing your marketing efforts
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.
Slideshow: Meet the Canadians that should be on HP’s CEO short list
Who will replace Mark Hurd as the next CEO of HP? It could be one of these Canadian contenders
Tech Data focusing on more profitable business opportunities
The distributor isn’t shying away from its broadline heritage, but it will increasingly pass on more transactional, less profitable business
SmartBear boasts more pricing flexibility than software testing alternatives
The company is looking to build its channel and has targeted the Canadian market for investment and support
Social networking is IT security’s ground zero: Kaspersky
The security software vendor has launched its 2011 consumer offerings, promising cloud-enabled protection and enhanced parental controls
Intel to acquire McAfee in US$7.7 billion cash deal
The chipmaker sees security as a fundamental component of online computing
Canadian ultraportable sales skyrocket in Q2: IDC Canada
Netbook sales appear to be petering-out but desktops, portables are growing
Channel executive shuffle: Who’s in and who’s out so far in 2010
New faces, new jobs: The channel executive shuffle
Oracle outlines how it wants to use the channel
Avnet and HighVail Systems react to the Oracle channel opportunity in this CDN video report
Wireless dealers aren’t feeling the love from Canadian carriers
An IDC Canada report shows Canada’s wireless dealers aren’t getting the support they need from Canada’s carriers, at a time the carriers need the dealer channel more than ever
Ontario scraps eco-fees, but e-waste fees remain
You could forgive Ontario VARs for bring puzzled, and a little annoyed, by the province’s eco-fee about-face
Oracle sees North American partners, not Canadian partners
Sun legacy partners used to working with a Canadian partner organization are adjusting to Oracle’s continental model. Avnet says it will mean better service, support
Avnet eyes cloud computing & managed services
The value-added distributor had had a big year with Oracle/Sun, adding Cisco, and acquiring Bell Micro and Tallard. Now, it has its head in the cloud
Cisco needs Avnet to conquer the data centre
Cisco tells Avnet partners it needs them to make its network-cenric data centre vision a reality
Oracle needs the channel, but it’s still direct first
At distributor Avnet’s conference for its former Sun Microsystems partners, Oracle outlines the role it wants the channel to play