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Long View’s Dave Frederickson on HPE’s rediscovered mojo, the quote-cycle crisis, and why AI starts with data

There are not many people who can look at HPE Discover 2026 from the vantage point of someone who helped build it. Dave Frederickson spent over 24 years at HP, including leading the enterprise servers ...
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About ChannelBuzz.ca

With a mission of cutting through the noise for Canadian VARs and MSPs, ChannelBuzz.ca is a daily news, information and analysis blog for the Canadian IT channel community, with a focus on serving ...
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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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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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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: Commvault’s head of Worldwide Partners and Market Development comments on the significance of the new NetApp relationship as part of Commvault ...
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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 SAS Innovate: SAS Canada’s Ryan MacDonald on AI governance, the partner opportunity, and fifty years of trust

Recorded on site at SAS Innovate 2026 in Grapevine, Texas, today’s In The Channel features Ryan MacDonald, country leader at SAS Canada, in a wide-ranging conversation about what the week’s major ...
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The Buzz: HPE Discover keynote day: self-driving networks take centre stage as HPE makes its AI-era argument

HPE used keynote day at HPE Discover 2026 in Las Vegas to make a clear argument: networking is the foundation of the AI era. In the afternoon general session, Rami Rahim, HPE’s EVP and GM of ...
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SAS continues emphasis on new trustworthy AI offerings with model cards, AI governance services, expanded Viya and offerings like Co-Pilot and SAS Data Maker

LAS VEGAS – At their SAS Innovate 2024 event here, SAS continued the same emphasis on Thursday that it had stressed on Wednesday. That was the expansion of their AI capabilities, and rolling more out ...
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The backup is the target: Dell’s Rob Emsley on building a real cyber resilience practice

For most of the history of managed services, backup has been foundational but frankly unremarkable. You back up the data. Customers sleep better. Everyone moves on. That model needs to evolve. In this ...