Canadian solution provider re-brands itself
Toronto’s HighVail creates new logo, Web site to open new ground in virtualization.
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.
Never mind tough, this notebook is really light
Panasonic’s CF-Y7 Toughbook impresses with lightweight and battery life, but at a hefty price tag
Microsoft’s BizTalk gets a dose of modeling smarts
IDS Scheer is integrating its ARIS modeling platform with Microsoft’s BizTalk Server
Bringing process modeling to IT management
IDS Scheer/BMC integration will bring business process modeling capabilities to BMC’s IT service management suite
One on one with McAfee Canada’s Ross Allen
CDN sits down with McAfee’s Canadian general manager, Ross Allen, to discuss his priorities for the channel and the evolving security model in a VIDEO INTERVIEW
Nero looks to blaze beyond CD burning
With new Canadian leadership, Nero is setting its sites on liquid media and conquering the TV with help from TiVo
Bringing fault tolerance to virtualization
Marathon is looking for IT infrastructure and Citrix partners to help bring its new everRun VM offering to market
VMware stresses solutions in partner program revamp
The virtualization vendor launches new services support, an alliance program to encourage solution-selling, and a new “uber” certification
Vancouver reseller BlueCurl transitions to green IT provider
Originally formed to sell VoIP solutions, this Vancouver solution provider ended-up becoming a green innovator
TechData records strong revenue, income increases
The distributor’s Q1 results show eight per cent sales growth in the Americas
Help desk software vendor hopes to discover more Canadian partners
Alloy Software to entice resellers to its new Discovery network inventory management suite with big margins
New IBM Canada channel boss focuses on Americas alignment
Shannon O’Connor aims at building sustainable partner growth in Canada
Xerox offers two new printers exclusive to the channel
New desktop offerings hit the market as the vendor tries to help partners make their money on the razor blades, not the razor
CCSI Compucom Canada wants to keep moving up
Solution provider hopes to leverage new Microsoft LAR status to increase annual growth
Cognos will protect its partners, says executive
The Cognos partner program will reside above IBM’s PartnerWorld, and IBM partners will have to come in the front door