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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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The Buzz: an end-of-week look at the HPE Discover 2026 details that matter for partners

Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers: HPE Discover 2026 wraps up in Las Vegas today, and if you’ve been following our coverage, you know we’ve had plenty to unpack this week. For ...
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Fortra: building a channel platform from 20-plus acquisitions

Faraz Siraj, vice president of global channels and alliances at Fortra The conversation also digs into Fortra’s recent decision to sell its Alert Logic managed detection and response services to ...