CDN News Roundup: Cloud, shaved heads, and more cloud

It’s been a cloudy month in the channel; everything as a service is hot. But while the channel is obsessed with the journey to the cloud, it’s still taking time to give back. Our heads are in the cloud for this edition of the CDN News Roundup.

What’s the deal with Canada’s low adoption of cloud computing? Long View Systems executive Dave Frederickson has a theory as to why cloud is a taboo subject for some partners to broach with clients – people are tired of the ceaseless cloud hype.

Forget fatigue with the cloud hype machine; CDW has another theory to why Canadian companies aren’t jumping on the cloud bandwagon as quickly as they could be: complexity. A CDW-sponsored report says 60 per cent of IT professionals and decision makers would make more use of cloud services, but the complexity they perceive around enabling and integrating those workloads with legacy systems holds them back.

C4 board member and NetApp Canada national channel manager Rick Brown is looking for new partners, but not to join the NetApp channel program – he wants you to shave your head. It’s part of the St. Baldrick’s event on April 30, a fundraiser to fight childhood cancers that has been embraced by the channel.

Managed services marketing expert Stuart Crawford of Ulistic has advice for partners looking to bring millennials into their workforces with the dual goals of helping their business grow and helping these individuals succeed.  Get ready; the millennials are coming and they’re changing the way our industry works.

In this edition of the CDN Digital Edition, meet the Top 10 Cloud Providers with operations in Canada. VMware outlines its new professional services partner program and certifications, and Microsoft showcases HoloLens and big updates to Windows 10. Plus, find out why Google Glass failed to catch on and what channel guru Bruce Stuart’s has to say about a hybrid cloud strategy.

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Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

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Jeff Jedras
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.

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