Top 10 Green Solution Providers of 2011
'Going green' has, for many companies, gone from being trendy to being crucial. The green movement has evolved within the IT sector into one dedicated to both sustainability and cost savings. CDN looks at 10 Canadian solution providers who have incorporated being green into their products, services and company cultures.

CDN Top 100 Solution Providers see their profits soar
After two flat years from the CDN Top 100 Solution Providers rankings, the Canadian channel roared back to prominence in 2010 by posting a 6.2 per cent overall growth rate.

Tech's biggest flip-floppers
Doing an about-face on key issues: It's not just for politicians anymore. Tech honchos like Ellison, Schmidt and Ballmer do it from time to time -- even the mighty Steve Jobs is guilty. Click on to meet the biggest flip-floppers in IT.

The top solution providers of the millennium ... so far
With the clock ticking down to CDN's Top 100 Solution Providers of 2010 gala event, it's a good time to take a look back at those channel partners that have been the leaders of the pack over the last decade. The first Top 100 list was compiled for 2002, and is a ranking of the top solution providers in Canada based on revenue. For this slideshow, we took the top five performers for each year and awarded points based on their ranking each year. We then added the points up to get the nine top performing partners of the decade. Some of the top solution providers are still ruling the roost today. Some have merged, acquired or changed their names. And some are simply no more. Who are the top solution providers of the 2000s? Read on to find out.

CDN's Top Newsmakers of 2010, Part Two
Every year, the CDN editorial staff sits down to discuss the events of the past year in the Canadian IT channel community, and to select CDN’s Top 25 Newsmakers of the year. It’s often a heated and passionate debate, particularly when determining the top spots, and this year was no exception. In part two of our CDN Top 25 Newsmakers of 2010 slideshow series, meet our remaining newsmakers, and learn what put them on our list.

CDN's Top Newsmakers of 2010, Part One
Every year, the CDN editorial staff sits down to discuss the events of the past year in the Canadian IT channel community, and to select CDN’s Top 25 Newsmakers of the year. It’s often a heated and passionate debate, particularly when determining the top spots, and this year was no exception. In part one of our CDN Top 25 Newsmakers of 2010 slideshow series, meet our Top 12 newsmakers, and learn what put them on our list.

Top 10 high tech celebrity endorsers
Three Canadians make the list of the best known celebrity-based high tech endorsers. There are two time-honoured schools of thought when it comes to high tech advertising. The first touts the many virtues of the featured product in an attempt to show that it's superior to competitors such as the case with Jerry Seinfeld and Microsoft. The second makes an end run around reason, hires a celebrity, and has them do something ridiculous in the general vicinity of the product. From Mr. T playing non-existent classes in World of Warcraft to Chuck Norris passing out, we've found some of the more interesting celebrity high tech ads.

10 Canadian technology brands that are no more
During the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s a widely-held concept was Internet time: the idea that, with the instantaneous communications enabled by the Web, in the IT world time moved a little quicker.

Symantec Partner Engage 2010
Symantec held its annual Partner Engage event at Las Vegas' MGM Convention Centre. The theme of this year's conference was "Power your business."

Avnet Technology Solutions' IBM Partner Summit 2010
Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS) held its annual IBM Partner Summit in San Antonio, TX., where more than 800 guests were in attendance this year. Company executives also took this time to announce a lofty multi-million dollar goal to reach $600M with its partners this quarter.

D&H Canada gets channel & vendors together at Tech Fair
There were many established vendors at the D&H Canada's Tech Fair such as Cisco, but the distributor also brought in many others who are new to the Canadian market.

Channel Elite Awards 2010
This year's annual CDN Channel Elite Awards event, held at Toronto's Paramount Conference and Event Venue, saw 26 awards handed out across 10 categories. In addition to the usual awards categories, this year's event also introduced a new category: Best Cloud Computing Solution.

The keys to a strong vendor/channel partner relationship
After their marriage, a channel partner's relationships with their technology vendors are probably the most important, and long-standing relationships in their lives. And not unlike a marriage, a strong vendor/channel relationship requires nurturing, give-and-take and mutual respect.

Top 10 Green Solution Providers for 2010
There's a whole lot of green-washing going on -- and a lot of lip service being paid to environmental initiatives. But some solution providers are truly committed to making a difference.

Meet five Canadians who should be on HP's CEO short list
With the resignation of Mark Hurd as CEO of Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ), speculation is rampant as to who will succeed him at the helm of the technology giant.

Channel executive shuffle: Who's in and who's out so far in 2010
We're only half-way through 2010, and already the IT channel has seen many changes with new names taking charge, old names getting new positions, and some veterans moving on all together.

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010
The annual Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference was held in Washington, D.C. While U.S. President Barack Obama ran the U.S. from the Whitehouse, former president Bill Clinton dropped by the event to address channel partners.

HP Tech Forum 2010
HP held its annual Tech Forum conference in Las Vegas this year, where more than 5,300 partner and customer attendees came from around the world. During the opening keynote speech, Dave Donatelli, executive vice-president and general manager for HP enterprise servers, storage and networking, said one of the biggest challenges for customers today is IT sprawl. Most customers are currently spending about 70 per cent of their overall IT budget on managing their existing infrastructure, while the remaining 30 per cent of their budget goes towards innovation. Thanks to HP's vision of a converged infrastructure, the company is helping customers to save costs and time using their solutions and technologies.

Mobile market heating-up
Research and analysis firm IDC Canada recently identified 10 Canadian Mobile and Wireless companies to watch. These are 10 companies that are innovating and developing promising technology in this hot market.

New technologies from the Computex show
The annual Computex Trade Show in Taipei is a showcase for new technology. But this year's event proved to be quite controversial as protestors disrupted the show by demonstrating against some of the participants over a rash of high tech worker suicides.

SAP's Sapphire user conference
Business software vendor SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) held its annual Sapphire user conference in May, and for the first time the show was simulcast concurrently from both Orlando and Frankfurt.

Cisco's Partner Summit 2010
Cisco held its annual Partner Summit in San Francisco this year, where the vendor announced new initiatives and programs to help its channel partners accelerate their growth.

Part two: 20 women in the IT channel
These 20 female senior-level executives are helping to lead the way and are setting a new bar in the IT.

Part one: 20 women in the IT channel
These 20 female senior-level executives are helping to lead the way and are setting a new bar in the IT channel.

Top 100 Solution Providers Winners
Canadian comedienne extraordinaire Jessica Holmes hosted the annual Top 100 Solution Providers event in Toronto.

Kaspersky Lab Americas partner conference
Kaspersky Lab hosted its third annual Americas partner conference in February in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The event brought in close to 200 channel partners from across North America where they heard about new marketing initiatives from the security vendor, as well as new programs.

CDN's Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, Part One
In part one of our CDN Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009 slideshow series, meet our Top 5 newsmakers, and learn what put them on the map in 2009.

CDN's Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, Part Two
In part two of our CDN Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009 slideshow series, meet newsmakers six thru 15, and learn what put them on the map in 2009..

CDN's Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, Part Three
In our third and final slideshow installment of our Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009, meet newsmakers 16-25, and see why they made our list this year.

Symantec Partner Engage 2009
Symantec Corp. held its annual Partner Engage channel conference earlier this month, encouraging partners to unite, collaborate and thrive together

Windows 7 Launch in Toronto
The release of Windows 7 was much anticipated in Canada. The new efficiency of the OS was a topic Microsoft tried to convey at the launch in Toronto

D&H Canada's technology show and fun fair event
This year's second annual D&H technology show and fun fair event left partners with a message of staying optimistic despite today's changing and challenging economy.

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009
Approximately 400 Canadian solution providers (some even drove) made there way to bayou country in the deep south of the United States to attend Microsoft’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference.

2009 Sage Insights Partner Conference
This year's annual Sage Insights Partner Conference brought partners from around the world together, in an effort to help all partners go back to basics.

Cisco Partner Summit 2009 Boston
Cisco's worldwide channel team along with thousands of solution providers came to the historic city of Boston for the annual Partner Summit.

CDN Top 100 winning solution providers
Comedian and Air Farce alum Jessica Holmes was the master of ceremonies for the CDN Top 100 Solution providers of 2008 event, held in April in Vaughn, Ont. The event celebrates excellence in the Canadian IT channel, and recognizes the top 100 Canadian solution providers in 2008, by revenue.

CDN's Top 100 Solution Providers 2009 event partner workshop
During CDN's Top 100 Solution Providers 2009 event, workshop attendees were treated to an in-depth look at customer purchasing patterns and the channel partner landscape.

EMC World 2009
More than 7,000 attendees came to Orlando in May for EMC World 2009, the storage vendor's annual user conference. They heard the latest about the vendor's data centre and virtualization strategies, and the product roadmap.

Women in Leadership & Technology (WIL&T) meet and mingle event
Networking and mentoring group, Women in Leadership and Technology (WIL&T), a division of non-profit organization, International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP), held its first Canadian meet and mingle event for women last Monday.

Cisco Velocity Channel Marketing Event
Cisco Systems hosted solution providers from around the world at its channel marketing conference called Velocity.

IBM Lotusphere 2009
At this year's annual Lotusphere conference' IBM executives outlined the strategy for the collaboration platform and pinpointed the channel opportunities.

CDN Top 25 Newsmakers
Well, another year has passed and again the time has come to reflect on what has gone by in 2008. In the IT industry the one constant this year has been virtualization whether in server, storage or desktop.

Channel Elite Awards: Part Three
The Channel Elite Awards represents something special because they are
peer awards. Part three of CDN’s Channel Elite Awards slide show features
the best in channel marketing, managed services and collaborative solutions.

Channel Elite Awards: Part Two
The Channel Elite Awards represents something special because they are
peer awards. In part two of the Channel Elite Awards Slideshow series
the winners of Best Enterprise, Best Mid-Market and Best Service
Organization are featured.

Tech Data’s 2008 Vendor Partner Summit
This year’s annual Tech Data Vendor Partner Summit, which took place
in October in Mississauga, drew over 400 technology executives and
professionals, including more than 120 vendor partners.

Microsoft's Channel Impact Awards
Microsoft Canada partners from across Canada came to Toronto recently
to honour innovation and achievement in the software giant's partner
ecosystem at the 2008 Impact Awards.

CEA Solution Provider of the Year
CDN’s 2008 Channel Elite Awards were held on Oct. 28th, 2008
with solution providers from across Canada gathering to honour
achievement and innovation in the Canadian channel community.

CDN Channel Chiefs
The first annual Computer Dealer News Channel Chiefs feature
includes profiles of six of Canada's leading channel chiefs,
along with all the information you need on Canada's major
channel vendors, from channel chief contact information to
rebates, margins and product release schedules.

Top 5 Green Solution Providers
Top five solution providers, Xwave, BlueCurl, Softchoice, Laser
Networks and WBM Office Services, have met the green demand by
creating more energy-efficient solutions, improving productivity
and bringing cost-saving advantages to the business world.

Taiwan Computing In Transition
The country of Taiwan has been the hub of IT manufacturing for
several decades, but as more manufacturing moves over to China
because of lower labour cost Taiwan’s tech titans are transitioning
from its manufacturing base to one of innovation. This slideshow
illustrates Taiwan’s current high tech innovation.

CDN's Top 25 Newsmakers
The executives and events that made the biggest impact on the
Canadian IT channel in 2007. Each year CDN, Canada’s No. 1 IT
channel publication, selects the leading executives and one news
trend that made the biggest impact on the channel.
Here are our choices...