GTEC 2012 Thank You

CMI would like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth at GTEC 2012 last week at the Ottawa Convention Centre. A special thanks also goes our to our vendor sponsors Sensage and Lumension.

CMI is Moving to the Byward Market

That's right, we're moving to our new office at 121 York St. in Ottawa's Byward Market June 1rst.

Please update your address books:
CMI Inc.
121 York St.
Ottawa, ON CANADA
K1N 5T4

Phone:  819-770-9996
Fax:  819-803-0231

CMI Teams with STEALTHbits to Bring IT Security Solutions to Canadian Enterprises and Government Organizations

 Expands Availability of IT Management and Compliance Solutions Throughout Canada 

Ottawa, CANADA and Glen Rock, NJ – April 2, 2012 – Channel Management International (CMI) and STEALTHbits Technologies today announced that they have entered into a distribution partnership. Under terms of the agreement, CMI will distribute STEALHTbits’ IT management and compliance solutions and broker relationships with channel customers throughout Canada. 

CMI, a specialist in IT security distribution, brokers relationships between solutions manufacturers and Canadian value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators (SIs) to help bring innovative security solutions to enterprise and government organizations across Canada.

Following the recent acquisition of NetVision, a vendor formerly represented by CMI, STEALTHbits has integrated NetVision’s access rights, reporting and monitoring capabilities into its StealthINTERCEPT™solution. 

“Having been a distribution partner for NetVision, we know the value that its access reporting solutions brought to IT directors and security auditors looking to gain a more thorough understanding of access rights,” said Geoff Matthews, director of vendor management, CMI. “We are excited by the expanded capabilities that the StealthAUDIT and StealthINTERCEPT platforms provide and look forward to offering a broader portfolio of solutions that address the increasing interest that we have seen in this space.”

STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. offers the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform. Built from the ground up to collect, analyze, remediate, and report on data and systems critical to compliance success, STEALTHbits’ technology platform provides a single, unified framework for the management of Microsoft infrastructure and beyond, truly bridging the ever-widening gap between IT management and compliance groups within organizations large and small. Since 2001, STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. has delivered powerful solution sets that address specific business problems across Active Directory, Exchange, Public Folders, SharePoint, Data and Access Governance, Systems Governance, BlackBerry, and ActiveSync.

“We’re pleased to be partnering with a solutions specialist like CMI who has long-standing relationships with numerous security resellers within the Canadian channel and the Canadian government,” said Charlie Palella, vice president of business development at STEALTHbits Technologies. “We’re confident that our enterprise-class solutions combined withtheir market knowledge will enable resellers throughout Canada to offer our complete solution sets to meet the increasing demand for managing access and compliance.”

About STEALTHbits

STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. offers the industry’s most comprehensive IT management and compliance platform. Built from the ground up to collect, analyze, remediate, and report on data and systems critical to compliance success, STEALTHbits’ technology platform provides a single, unified framework for the management of Microsoft infrastructure and beyond, truly bridging the ever-widening gap between IT Management & Compliance groups within organizations large and small. Since 2001, STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. has delivered powerful solution sets that address specific business problems across Active Directory, Exchange, Public Folders, SharePoint, Data and Access Governance, Systems Governance, BlackBerry, and ActiveSync. Learn more at http://www.stealthbits.comand follow STEALTHbits on Twitter.

About CMI

Channel Management International (CMI) provides IT Security Distribution and Market Development for IT security vendors seeking to expand their sales channel into Canada. Since 2002, CMI has developed long-term relationships with more than 500 security resellers within the Canadian bilingual channel and the Canadian government. CMI develops partnerships between IT Security manufacturers and value-added resellers across Canada. CMI is 100% committed to the channel and markets to end users to drive new business opportunities to the reseller channel. Visit us online at www.cmi-inc.ca or contact info@cmi-inc.ca.

Back-to-back Events A Success For CMI and Partners

CMI would like to thank all of our partners and clients that helped make participation in both the GTEC 2011 and SecureTech 2011 conferences over the last few weeks such a success.

CMI and NetVision Partner to Bring Access Reporting Solutions to Canadian Channel

Partnership Agreement to Accelerate Distribution of NetVision Access Reporting Solutions through Canadian Security Resellers and Systems Integrators

GATIENAU, QUEBEC CANADA and AMERICAN FORK, UTAH – September 19, 2011 – Channel Management International (CMI) and NetVision, Inc. today announced that they have entered into a distributor agreement to bring NetVision’s Access Rights reporting and monitoring solutions to the Canadian channel. CMI, a specialist in IT security distribution, brokers relationships between solutions manufacturers and Canadian value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators (SIs) to help bring innovative security solutions to enterprise and government organizations across Canada.

NetVision is an industry-leading provider of solutions that simplify audit and compliance reporting while enabling visibility into administrative changes and user activity. NetVision specializes in monitoring around network directory technology, File Access Monitoring (FAM), and reporting on permissions related to unstructured data. CMI will be seeking new partners for NetVision throughout Canada.

“With minimal effort, IT directors and security auditors can get complete reports on who has access sensitive information.” said Geoff Matthews, Director of Vendor Management, CMI. “A thorough understanding of access rights is an important piece of the security puzzle.”

NetVision delivers an on-premise solution that may optionally be accessed remotely as a full managed service. NetVision customers report reduced costs for audit response and greater visibility into network access rights and user activity.

“Companies and governments of all sizes are aware of the significant challenges of understanding access and its use,” said Matt Flynn, Director of Strategy and Marketing, NetVision. “With NetVision’s focus on delivering clear and appropriate visibility with short time-to-value we are positive that CMI’s market knowledge will enable reseller’s throughout Canada to profit in this rapidly growing segment.”

About NetVision

NetVision offers access rights reporting solutions that enable organizations to easily and automatically obtain the most relevant and actionable information needed to protect their assets, mitigate risk, and reduce the cost and complexity of compliance and audit. NetVision's patented technology platform combines advanced event filtering with real-time monitoring, from-the-source data collection and a powerful and flexible reporting engine to deliver immediate answers to critical identity and access rights questions. Since the company's founding in 1995, more than 600 companies around the world have used NetVision to improve security, reduce risk, and enhance operational efficiency. For more information, contact NetVision online at www.NetVision.comor call 1-877-828-9180.

About CMI

Channel Management International (CMI) provides IT Security Distribution and Market Development for IT security vendors seeking to expand their sales channel into Canada. Since 2002, CMI has developed long-term relationships with more than 500 security resellers within the Canadian bilingual channel and the Canadian government. CMI develops partnerships between IT Security manufacturers and value-added resellers across Canada. CMI is 100% committed to the channel and markets to end users to drive new business opportunities to the reseller channel. Visit us online at www.cmi-inc.ca or contact info@cmi-inc.ca

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CMI and Clearswift Partner to Serve Canadian Channel

Email and Web security provider and IT security distribution leader partner to deliver web and email security solutions
 

Mt. Laurel, NJ and Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, August 2, 2011 -- Channel Management International (CMI) and Clearswift, the security software company, today announced that they have entered into a distributor agreement to deliver Clearswift’s web and email security solutions to the Canadian market.

CMI, a specialist in Canadian IT security distribution, develops partnerships between solutions manufacturers and value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators (SIs) to help bring innovative security solutions to enterprise and government organizations across Canada. Clearswift’s Web and Email Gateways provide a comprehensive and integrated solution to manage inbound threats (including spam, malware viruses and phishing,) compliance, data loss and web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, enabling enterprises to confidently embrace today’s complex business landscape.

“We are very impressed by Clearswift’s deep, innovative content inspection capabilities and the flexibility its Web and Email Gateway solutions provide to customers,” said Ken Lewis, Vice-President Sales and Marketing at CMI.  “Clearswift’s customer confidence and loyalty is reflected in the company’s excellent rates of renewal and substantial growth in multi-year agreements. Clearswift is a solid vendor with a strong commitment to the channel that Canadian security resellers should consider as a partner,” added Lewis.

Clearswift SECURE Email Gateway and SECURE Web Gateway are deployed by organizations with 50 to 250,000 users, who value both their IP and corporate reputation.  Clearswift’s content-aware inspection engine protects organizations from inbound threats and outgoing data leaks while affording employees the freedom to communicate freely by email and over the Web.

“We are excited to launch what we expect to be a rewarding partnership and look forward to working with the CMI team to deliver Clearswift’s SECURE Email and Web Gateway solutions,” said Bob Pritchard, Vice President, Americas, Clearswift.  “CMI has the proven expertise and trust-based relationships needed to successfully drive business in the Canadian market.”

 

About Clearswift

Clearswift's content-aware, policy based solutions enable over 17,000 organizations to manage and maintain no-compromise data, e-mail and web security across all gateways and in all directions. www.clearswift.com

About CMI

Channel Management International (CMI) provides IT Security Distribution and Market Development for IT security vendors seeking to expand their sales channel into Canada. Since 2002, CMI has developed long-term relationships with more than 500 security resellers within the Canadian bilingual channel and the Canadian government. CMI develops partnerships between IT Security manufacturers and value-added resellers across Canada. CMI is 100% committed to the channel and markets to end users to drive new business opportunities to the reseller channel. Visit us online at www.cmi-inc.ca or contact info@cmi-inc.ca

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For more information please contact Geoff Matthews at 819-700-9996 x113 or gmatthews@cmi-inc.ca