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Nutanix's 8th annual Enterprise Cloud Index reveals that nearly 80 per cent of organizations are encountering AI tools deployed outside of IT's control, data sovereignty has become a top-tier infrastructure priority, and containerization is accelerating faster than many solution providers realize. SVP Lee Caswell, a VMware veteran now watching the infrastructure market reshape from inside Nutanix,...

ESET chief security evangelist Tony Anscombe joins the podcast to talk about what's genuinely different in the threat landscape this year, including the emergence of AI-powered malware, why VPN servers without MFA are now the leading source of cyber insurance claims, and why MSPs should start framing security as a business risk conversation, not a technology one.

Check Point has acquired three companies simultaneously as part of a deliberate four-pillar platform strategy. CSO Roi Karo and Canadian channel leader Angelo Valentini explain what the acquisitions of Cyclops, Cyata, and Rotate mean for MSPs, how the "open garden" platform approach works in multi-vendor environments, and why the window to prepare for AI-driven threats is closing faster than most...

Ingram Micro closes fiscal 2025 with $52.6 billion in revenue and debuts the "AgenTeq" brand for its agentic AI play. The memory pricing crisis gets worse, with Dell compressing discounting and HP reporting costs doubled in a single quarter. MSP Well launches as the channel's first dedicated mental health community. And ServiceNow claims an AI agent is resolving 90% of its own IT tickets.

Legacy documentation tools were built for storage, not for knowledge operations. Lexful CEO Pinar Ormeci walks us through how her AI-native platform turns MSP documentation into a living, queryable knowledge layer - and why she thinks the old ways simply don't scale in an AI-first world.

Employees are spinning up AI agents and handing them broad access to corporate systems - often without security teams knowing. Okta VP of Product Jack Hirsch explains why identity, not endpoints, is the key to getting ahead of shadow AI, and where the opportunity lies for Canadian solution providers.

As of March 1, Citrix has expanded Arrow Electronics' role to include management of all MSP and mid-market partners in North America and Europe. We sit down with Citrix's Mark Sweeney to unpack what's changing, why now, and how partners can make the transition as smooth as possible.

Cisco now reserves the right to cancel compute orders and adjust pricing between order and ship date. Lenovo is warning of March price hikes. And WD says its entire 2026 hard drive production is spoken for. Here's what it all means for your quoting strategy. Plus: Pure Storage becomes Everpure, WatchGuard targets the enterprise-MSP gap, and AWS says AI is accelerating real-world attacks.

AI is a top priority for MSPs, but excitement hasn’t always translated into execution or profitability. In this episode, Mike DePalma of OpenText Cybersecurity breaks down where partners are succeeding with AI, where they’re struggling, and how the channel opportunity is starting to take real shape.

In times of ambiguity, those who invest will win, general manager Peter DiMarco says on this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.

Microsoft ramps up AI Cloud partner perks, Palo Alto refines NextWave for security services, monday.com launches AI-driven partner marketplace, and Rocket Software reveals IT leaders’ top data worries — all in this week’s channel news roundup.

Country manager Chandrasekhar LSP on the company’s new Canadian offerings, data residency, and why Solo may punch above its weight

An interview with Proofpoint global channel chief Stan de Boisset on what’s changing with the new program and what partners need to know as it goes live.

Cisco’s Robbins on AI powering campus refresh, Palo Alto adds identity capabilities; and former Meraki channel chief Pete Atkin joins Meter on this week’s round-up of channel news you should keep an eye on.

Intel Partner Alliance GM Andy Marsee explains changes to the chipmakers partner program and who Intel's partnering with in this edition of the podcast

As ESET Canada celebrates ten years in the Canadian market, country manager Bob Bonneau looks back at the company’s first decade in this country, recounts highlights, shares future plans, and touches on what it means to be a EU-based company in North America.

Everybody’s talking about AI, but is anyone doing it? How about doing it well? Those are among the questions that Intel of  Canada set out toanswer with a recent survey of business leaders in Canada

In this edition of the podcast, we talk to Edgar Zacharjev, general manager of RMM for Kaseya, to discuss how he sees aritifical intelligence playing out in the managed services space.

The new threat group appears to be offering as-a-service attacks on companies from Latin American and Asia, but often those hosted on North American infrastructure. What can MSPs learn from this kind of attack?

In this edition of the podcast, ESET’s Michal Jankech discusses the opportunity for MSPs around MDR, sales models for the technology, and what makes for a good MDR partner.

SaaS and cloud-based apps are key to businesses of any size, and the proliferation of apps outside of the data centre presents unique challenges to MSPs managing their clients' infrastructures. In this edition of the podcast, we take a look at the threatscape for SaaS apps, as defined by SaaS Alerts' annual SASI Report.