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The Buzz: Everpure revamps partner program, Copado launches AI agents, and Acer invests in Plugable

Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Tuesday, April 21, 2026, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. Copado has officially launched Agentia, a new platform ...
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ICYMI: Bell Canada bets big on AI in Saskatchewan, WBM says buy your RAM now, and AWS brings AI agents to partner selling

Today is Monday, March 23, 2026. Welcome to In Case You Missed It, our weekly five-minute rundown of important channel news stories that might have flown under the radar last week. This episode of In ...
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Long View’s Dave Frederickson on HPE’s rediscovered mojo, the quote-cycle crisis, and why AI starts with data

Former HP Canada ESSN lead and now Long View Systems EVP Dave Frederickson joins us live from HPE Discover 2026 with a perspective on the partner program, the real cost of the quote-cycle crisis, ...
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ICYMI: Cisco rewrites partner pricing rules as component shortages bite

Today is Monday, March 2, 2026. Welcome to In Case You Missed It, our weekly five-minute rundown of important channel news stories that might have flown under the radar last week. Hello and welcome to ...
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HPE Discover 2026

Former HP Canada ESSN lead and now Long View Systems EVP Dave Frederickson joins us live from HPE Discover 2026 with a perspective on the partner program, the real cost of the quote-cycle crisis, and ...
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In The Channel

Former HP Canada ESSN lead and now Long View Systems EVP Dave Frederickson joins us live from HPE Discover 2026 with a perspective on the partner program, the real cost of the quote-cycle crisis, and ...
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From NetSuite President’s Club to grain-to-bottle whisky in the Eastern Townships

This is the first episode in an occasional In The Channel series called “Life after the channel” – conversations with people who built careers in the Canadian IT channel and then went on to do ...
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On site at ServiceNow Knowledge: What building Canada’s first ServiceNow elite partner teaches you about what’s coming next

This is the final episode in our Knowledge 2026 coverage series, recorded live in Las Vegas. If you haven’t caught the earlier episodes, we’d suggest starting with our conversations with ServiceNow ...
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Dell moved 10k partners to distribution-led buying – and says they’re growing faster for it

Distribution doesn’t get a lot of editorial love. It’s easy to treat it as the background infrastructure of the channel – the warehousing, the credit lines, the logistics layer that keeps product ...
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The Buzz: ServiceNow bets on partners to close the gap between AI ambition and AI reality

Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an ...
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Outcomes before hardware: Microserve CTO Nigel Brown on AI readiness, tokenomics, and resilience from Dell Technologies World

Not every voice at Dell Technologies World last week belonged to a vendor. For a partner perspective on the week’s biggest themes, In The Channel sat down with Nigel Brown, CTO of Microserve – a ...
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Okta’s Canadian bet: Data cell, 600 employees, and a plan to triple the business

When a global SaaS vendor says it’s investing in a national market, what does that actually look like? In this episode, we put that question to Ryan Sydor, Okta’s Area Vice President and Country ...