HPE's Justin McGarry makes the case at HPE Discover 2026 that Compute Ops Management has evolved beyond server monitoring into a platform that lets MSPs deliver higher-margin services at scale - with AI-driven sustainability forecasting and early agentic capabilities on the roadmap.

HPE Discover day three brings the economics argument: continuous AI agents cost $13,000 per month in the public cloud, while HPE's own MindStone platform runs 30 times cheaper on-prem. Plus, Vultr buys HPE and NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra gear, and Morpheus 9 launches with a migration freebie.

Recorded on-site at HPE Discover Las Vegas, Ben Fallon, vice president of worldwide channel and partner ecosystem networking sales at HPE, discusses self-driving networks, the SASE opportunity, and why November is a key date for networking partners.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri and networking chief Rami Rahim made the case Tuesday at HPE Discover 2026 that the network - not the GPU, not the server - is the real foundation of the AI era. Here are the announcements that matter for Canadian IT solution providers.

OpenAI launches a partner program and a $150 million investment fund for enterprise AI, GoWest.ai and Nucleus Networks represent Canada on GTIA's inaugural Innovate Awards shortlist, and new Cisco research shows 71 percent of Canadian organizations expect their networks to hit capacity limits within three years.

HPE's Jeremiah Jenson unpacks the Partner Growth Summit announcements - Juniper into Partner Ready Vantage, channel-only products including Zerto, and a new partner-branded services model - and what the "power of one" actually means for Canadian resellers and MSPs.

HPE used Monday's Partner Growth Summit at Discover 2026 to deliver a broad operational reset for channel partners - extending quote validity, expanding financing capacity, adding major channel-only portfolio territory in virtualization and disaster recovery, launching an explicit managed services bridge, and introducing competitive storage incentives ahead of the second half of the year.

HPE Discover 2026 opens today in Las Vegas. We sat down with Jeremiah Jenson, HPE's vice president of North America channel, to preview the show - from the "architecting AI starts with your network" theme to what the week means for Canadian partners watching from home.

HPE Discover opens in Las Vegas today with the partner-exclusive Partner Growth Summit leading the way. Also in Monday's briefing: Cato Networks launches 100-plus integrations, and Checkmarx data shows 95 per cent of CISOs are being pressured to delay security issues.

Josh Singh of Turning Point - the Vancouver solution provider that operates exclusively on Dell in the data center - brings a rare dual perspective to DTW: nearly a decade inside Dell followed by leading sales at one of Canada's most committed Dell partners. The conversation covers AI adoption, data resilience, and navigating a market in disruption.