Budget 2010 promises a digital economy strategy
The Conservative government’s 2010 budget offers some targeted IT investment and promises a digital economy strategy, but is short on details
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.
Wedge Networks launches channel program
Calgary-based Web security company Wedge Networks has launched its first formal channel program
AMD brings commercial, software partners into Fusion Partner Program
Commercial partners and software developers will get new support from AMD through the Fusion Partner Program
IT community tempering expectations ahead of federal budget
Industry lobby groups are calling for action to encourage IT investment, innovation and commercialization, but aren’t expecting big expenditures in Thursday’s budget
Kaseya hires GM to focus Canadian growth
Steve Ridout has joined Kaseya as general manager for Canada to build the provider of IT automation software’s Canadian business
Avaya examining Canadian distribution model post-Nortel
Avaya global channel chief Jeremy Butt visited Canada recently to meet with partners following the Nortel integration and roadmap announcement
EMC adds specialization and margin to Velocity Inventive Program
The new technical architect certification can net partners 10 points of extra margin on registered deals
Targeting the federal government IT opportunity
As its fiscal year-end approaches, the federal government is focused on streamlining its infrastructure, consolidation and virtualization, and improving service delivery
Consumers drive increase in Q4 PC shipments
IDC Canada reports consumers buying portables, particularly netbooks, helped drive strong Canadian PC shipments in Q4
Intel launches another whitebox notebook program
With Spring Peak, Intel hopes to succeed where Rich Creek 2 and Verified by Intel haven’t taken off in the past. But has the day of the build to order notebook past?
McAfee’s Quickstart Services bring enterprise capabilities to SMBs
Security vendor McAfee says its QuickStart Services give the channel more capabilities to bring to SMB customers
City of Coquitlam virtualizes its storage with Hitachi, Compugen
A desire to upgrade to the latest version of VMware led the city to virtualize its storage environment as well
The enterprise opportunity Apple doesn’t want you to know about
Enterprise users are asking for Apples, and Macs are easier to support in the enterprise than ever before. Still, Apple seems reluctant to make a serious play for the business market
BitDefender taps Tech Data for major Canadian enterprise push
The Romanian Internet security company is launching a play for the Canadian enterprise, and has signed distributor Tech Data Canada to help bring it to market
With Cisco on board, Avnet’s NetworkPath targets the data centre
The distributor’s new networking practice provides solution selling and methodology support to partners targeting the data centre opportunity