Pax8 Beyond wraps in Salt Lake City with the Managed Intelligence Provider program and Microsoft Agent 365 in the spotlight, Arrow opens networked experience centers to help partners monetize AI, and Mitel taps a new channel chief ahead of a major communications refresh cycle.

Storage specialist Earl Gosick of ESTI Consulting Services brings a 35-year Prairies perspective to Dell Technologies World, covering AI infrastructure economics, the reality of cyber recovery, and a genuinely compelling data center opportunity building in Saskatchewan and Alberta.

Today on The Buzz: Kaseya tackles the MSP sector's top challenge with MSP Success, a unified growth ecosystem; Zscaler introduces its first complete Zero Trust platform for Agentic AI at Zenith Live 2026; and FlexPoint launches AI-powered agents for MSP accounts receivable.

AWS Canada has opened its first Partner Innovation Hub in Toronto, designed to help partners bridge the AI execution gap between proof-of-concept and production. In The Channel spoke with AWS Canada's Martin Brazinet and CGI's Dinesh Bhavsar on the eve of the launch.

In today's edition of The Buzz, ConnectWise bets big on Predictive IT with a unified platform launch, Cavelo brings an AI security analyst to the MSP market, and Radiant Logic and Zscaler team up to solve a persistent M&A integration headache.

Microserve CTO Nigel Brown was on the floor at Dell Technologies World last week and came away with a practitioner's take on what the AI announcements really mean for Canadian partners - and the clients who aren't quite ready for them yet.

Today's channel news includes a major leadership move at ASUS Canada, an autonomous SOC launch from 7AI, and a strategic channel hire at Guardz.

Dell's Anthony Tanoury unpacks the structural shift underway in how Dell goes to market through distribution - including a significant move to distribution-led buying, the promise of deal reg in hours instead of days, and why AI accelerator programs are the most underutilized resource in the channel right now.

Thursday's Buzz covers Zscaler's AI-Guardian partner initiative, Jamf's new permanent CEO, and moves from Aura, SOCRadar, Akamai, and Cisco Canada.

Dell's director of cyber resilience marketing explains why MSPs need to move beyond basic backup - and what it actually looks like to build a practice that can keep a customer's business alive.