When John Carey joined SAS Institute four years ago, his mandate was to rethink what partnering looked like for a company with a long advisory and delivery history but limited co-sell and no ...

OMERS-backed Integris announces intent to acquire First Focus, the largest SMB-focused MSP in Australia and New Zealand; NeuShield partners with Ontario-based Data ...

A special edition of The Buzz from SAS Innovate 2026 in Washington. SAS opens Viya to external AI agents via MCP, AI Navigator gets automated discovery and lands on Azure Marketplace, and ...

SonicWall’s 2026 Cyber Protect Report frames SMB security failures as seven predictable, preventable sins. In The Channel sat down with SVP Michael Crean – who built one of the early ...

Google Cloud targets Microsoft with a new partner program, OpenAI and Microsoft revise their partnership terms, and Guardz ...

More than 100,000 tech jobs have been eliminated industry-wide in the first four months of 2026, with AI cited as a direct cause in nearly half of the cuts. Keeper Security launches real-time ...

New CDW Canada and IDC research finds Canadian enterprise cyberattacks jumped 80 percent in the past year, with cloud infection rates at a record high. Microsoft drops new agentic AI-powered 365 ...

Acronis launches GenAI Protection, giving MSPs a billable way to govern shadow AI across client environments. Everpure CEO Charles Giancarlo publishes an open letter warning of 70-percent average ...

Dell’s Eric Arcese joins In The Channel with a message for Canadian partners navigating the AI era: the opportunity isn’t in the infrastructure itself – it’s in the gaps ...

HPE doubles its software channel team amid hardware cost pressures, new research points to governance as the main hurdle for AI monetization, and ESET reveals how cyber insurance is changing SMB ...

Rewst founder Aharon Chernin draws a distinction that should reshape how you think about both AI and automation: there is a difference between an MSP that does automation and an automated MSP. One ...

Salesforce bets big on partner-led AI deployments, Cisco reverses its controversial compute deal registration policy, and former Pax8 executives launch the CloudCapsule security platform.