AppDirect acquires AI avatar company Soul Machines, CyberFOX signs a North American distribution agreement with TD SYNNEX, and RSA launches an agentic identity platform for regulated industries.

Six months ago, Okta Canada’s Ryan Sydor talked about investment: a data cell, 600 employees, a plan to triple the business. At Oktane 2026, the story is demand – for agentic identity, ...

In this episode of In The Channel, I’m joined by JoeAnne Hardy, president of WBM Technologies. WBM is a fixture on the Canadian channel landscape, but its story is one of constant, deliberate ...

September 1, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Frank Balonis on why Canadian partners need to start CPCSC prep now, and what CMMC taught us Kiteworks chief information security officer Frank Balonis ...

June 10, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on The Buzz: Kaseya launches MSP Success ecosystem as customer acquisition pressure mounts Today on The Buzz: Kaseya tackles the MSP sector’s top challenge with ...

February 28, 2023 Tim Sherwood, VP of Product and Offer Management, Avaya Comments Off on Understanding innovation as a large, well-established enterprise Avaya vice president Tim Sherwood shares five ...

September 2, 2026 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Plugable CEO Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy on bringing Amazon-tested peripherals to the IT channel and introducing modular AI hardware Plugable CEO Lynn ...

Chris Fabes is two weeks into his new role as president of TD SYNNEX Canada, and he brings a perspective almost nobody else in the Canadian channel can match: senior leadership experience on all three ...

When Cork Cyber first showed up on the radar a few years ago, it was easy to file under “cyber warranty” and move on. But Dan Candee, who came in as CEO in mid-2024 from AWS and Dell, has been pushing ...

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 ...

Welcome to The Buzz from ChannelBuzz.ca, I’m Robert Dutt, today is Wednesday, June 17th, and here’s what’s happening in the channel today. We’ll have a full roundup of everything going down at HPE ...

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 ...