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Citrix Summit: Vying for partner mindshare

Jeff Jedras

Published: May 20th, 2013 Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+
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Who can stop NetSuite from eating Sage’s lunch?

I’m at the NetSuite SuiteWorld conference in San Jose, Calif., and I could not help but notice Sage Software channel partners at this show. These channel partners are evaluating NetSuite to either further

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 15th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Look who is turning channel friendly

Increasing channel sales from a measly three per cent to 14 per cent doesn't seem like much, but for a global vendor such as Xerox it is a major shift in direction. I

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 9th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Lenovo smartphones not so far fetched

I talked to three Lenovo senior executives here in Las Vegas at the company's annual channel conference about its smartphone coming to Canada and the U.S. market. All three told me there are

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 30th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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A first timer’s look at the Top 100 Solution Providers event

Walking into a hall packed with the top people from the IT channel world is not something that you witness everyday. People were solemnly seated ready for the first workshop of the day.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 19th, 2013 Wolston Lobo
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Hardware-as-a-service goes against BYOD

Ingram Micro is really going out on a limb with its newly announced hardware-as-a-service program during its Cloud Summit in Phoenix. Distributors usually play it safe and let the market figure things out

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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12 questions to determine if you are a customer company

Not sure what a customer company is? Well it’s more than just having a loyalty program. It’s more than just over-servicing customers. Every business where they are a one person operation out a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Why you shouldn’t call it outsourcing

You’re probably burning out your corporate IT folks. With the pace of change and innovation increasing and the organizational demands on IT growing, there are still only 40-60 hours per week to get

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 13th, 2013 Ted Garner
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Synnex is a good place for Supercom to go

I was out of town on a family vacation when the news broke of Synnex Canada acquiring Supercom, a PC distributor in Markham, Ont. This is truly a bitter-sweet story in my opinion.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 13th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer makes a wise decision

You are either engaged at work or you are not. It’s as simple as that. I for one credit Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer for making this un-conventional decision. Trends such as working from home and

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Ballmer makes a surprise appearance at CES

It may not have been sexy but Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs delivered a great CES keynote and added the element of surprise last night in Las Vegas. That surprise was an appearance by Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer. CES attendees lamented

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 8th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Qualcomm CES keynote just not sexy enough

I acknowledge Qualcomm CEOPaul Jacobs is trying to deliver a great experience at the CES keynote on Monday, January 7. He should be given credit for that and even some praise for being courageous enough to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 4th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Predictions: Massive consolidation in the security industry

There are way too many security vendors in the marketplace. I would say there are about 12 well known security vendors in the marketplace that CDN covers on a daily basis. They are: Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Lab, Sophos, WebSense, CA

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 7th, 2012 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Security kings living two separate lives

The founder of McAfee John McAfee is in trouble again. This month is proving to be a challenging one for a person credited with creating anti-virus software. To give you a sense of how important

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: December 5th, 2012 Paolo Del Nibletto
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Windows chief departure will slow Microsoft momentum

The news this morning of the immediate departure of Steve Sinofsky, Microsoft’s Windows chief was clouded in mystery. Allow me to give you some reasons that will shed some light on this Sinofsky

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 14th, 2012 Paolo Del Nibletto