How financing can help channel partners navigate higher IT costs
Jim Moschos, national sales director of technology finance at Mitsubishi HC Capital Canada Canadian businesses buying servers and IT infrast...
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Plugable CEO Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy on bringing Amazon-tested peripherals to the IT channel and introducing modular AI hardware
Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy, CEO of Plugable The IT channel is no stranger to consumer brands attempting to make the leap into the B2B world, bu...
The Buzz: TD Synnex deepens PartnerFirst, Barracuda collapses partner tracks, and AWS pushes outcome-based AI billing
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: TD Synnex : TD Synnex says it has expanded its PartnerFirst platform with Mi...
Frank Balonis on why Canadian partners need to start CPCSC prep now, and what CMMC taught us
Frank Balonis, chief information security officer at Kiteworks The Canadian Program for Cyber Security Certification ( CPCSC ) officially la...
The Buzz: KnowBe4 names Kurt Mills channel chief, CBTS launches Forge Agents, and Sublime Security integrates with CrowdStrike
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: KnowBe4 names Kurt Mills channel chief: KnowBe4 has appointed Kurt Mills as...
Is technology expense management the MSP practice you haven’t considered?
Jason Wieser, senior vice president of mid-market and channel sales at Calero If technology expense management isn’t on your radar as...
Red Hat’s Kennedy on why the swim lanes are gone – and what the partner program looks like now
Kevin Kennedy, vice president of global partner ecosystem at Red Hat The channel has fundamentally changed – and for a long time, Red...
The Buzz: ePlus buys Daymark, Cohesity expands Aspire partner program, and Exclaimer builds an MSP lane
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: ePlus acquires Daymark Solutions: The solution provider bought the Boston-ar...
Cisco brings sovereign infrastructure to Canada with air-gapped portfolio
Raj Juneja , president of Cisco Canada In this episode of In The Channel, we speak with Raj Juneja, president of Cisco Canada , about the la...
The Buzz: Cisco Canada launches sovereign critical infrastructure, ScanSource buys MicroAge for $220.5 million, and ESET Canada names cybersecurity scholarship winners
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: [Cisco Canada]: The company this morning launched its Sovereign Critical Inf...
ESET’s Tony Anscombe on why breached SMBs feel more confident, and where MSPs fit in the insurance collision
Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at ESET ESET’s 2026 SMB Cyber Readiness Index surveyed 700 cybersecurity decision-makers acro...
Buffering the madness: Dynabook Canada on building a channel in the age of RAMageddon
Carmine Cinerari, president and CEO of Dynabook Canada When Carmine Cinerari took over as president and CEO of Dynabook Canada in April 2025...
Coro CEO Joe Sykora on the case against Frankenstein security stacks
Joe Sykora , CEO of Coro The debate between platform consolidation and best-of-breed point solutions has been running in the MSP community f...
Logging in, not breaking in: Blackpoint Cyber’s Wil Santiago on the 2026 threat landscape
Wil Santiago, Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoint Cyber Wil Santiago, chief security and trust officer at Blackpoin...
The Buzz: Blumira launches universal AI security command center, Vistera brings AI professional services to Canadian SMBs, and CrowdStrike warns on ransomware targeting MSPs
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: [Blumira]: The company on Tuesday launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic AI comm...
From order takers to order makers: Sanjib Sahoo on Ingram Micro’s AI revenue intelligence momentum
Sanjib Sahoo, executive vice president and president of the Global Platform Group at Ingram Micro In this episode of In The Channel , we sit...
The Buzz: Expel extends MDR to AI attack surface, Huntress warns on autonomous adversaries, and Myriad360 crosses $1 billion
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: Expel MDR for AI attack surface: Expel has launched what it says is the firs...
Exabeam rebuilds its MSSP commercial model to fix the economics of managed SIEM
Craig Patterson, global channel chief at Exabeam For years, SIEM has been one of those technologies that looked good in theory but was genui...
The Buzz: Schneider Electric brings multi-chemistry UPS to the edge, Ingram Micro connects AI to partner workflows, and D&H expands Dell storage distribution
Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: [Schneider Electric]: The company yesterday unveiled its next-generation APC...
Chris Fabes brings three-sided channel view to TD SYNNEX Canada
Chris Fabes, president of TD SYNNEX Canada Chris Fabes is two weeks into his new role as president of TD SYNNEX Canada, and he brings a pers...