5 Channel Partner Updates: Monday 11 September 2017

Good morning, channel partners. Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Monday, September 11, 2017. Actually, there are 17 timely updates designed for VARs, managed services providers (MSPs), cloud services providers (CSPs), independent software vendors (ISVs), telco master agents and telco agents to sip on. Take a look. 17. Ingram Micro Momentum: Ingram Micro says its revenues reached $10.83 billion in Q2 2017, up 7 percent rom Q2 2016. We'll share more details soon... 16. Distribution - SD-WANs: Lifeboat has agreed to distribute SimpleWan's SD-WAN, managed WiFi, network monitoring, cyber security and failover technologies. 15. Dell EMC Anniversary: Michael Dell and many media folks are celebrating the first anniversary of Dell acquiring EMC. Most of the coverage focuses on top-line revenue growth. But is the media asking enough questions about Dell EMC profitability over the long haul? 14. Goodbye Skype for Business?: It sounds like Microsoft is preparing to rebrand Skype for Business, while bringing the platform under the teams Umbrella, according to Petri. 13. Google Pursues Microsoft Partners: Google's cloud team apparently has been sending free Chromebooks to Microsoft partners... 12. Houston Data Center: Internap Corp. says its Houston-area data center remains 100 percent operational for its entire product portfolio and the company despite the recent Hurricane Harvey-related flooding. 11. Talent, Part One: Veritas Technologies has hired Barbara Spicek as vice president of global channels and alliances. Spicek previously held key posts at Gigamon and Nexsan Storage Solutions. Continue to page two for items 10 to 1. It's worth the click. Welcome to page two of two for today's blog... 10. Talent, Part Two: Carousel Industries, an MSP whose clientele includes 35 Fortune 100 companies, has named Jason Albuquerque as its first chief information security officer (CISO). Albuquerque, previously director of business systems and operations, reports to Bill Thompson, Carousel's executive VP of operations. 9. Talent, Part Three: Cherwell Software, which develops IT service management software, has named Scott Gainey as its chief marketing officer. Gainey previously held key posts at Cisco Systems, NetApp, Palo Alto Networks and Veritas. 8. Field Service Management: SAP has agreed to resell the ClickSoftware Field Service Edge solution. It will be branded as the SAP Scheduling and Resource Management application by ClickSoftware. The solution, available now, enables real-time, automated, context-based recommendations for service planning, scheduling, execution and analysis to support intelligent decision making, the companies say. 7. Microsoft IoT Management: Microsoft is previewing its Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. The new service enables customers to configure millions of devices in a secure and scalable manner, automating a process that has historically been time and resource intensive for manufacturers and companies managing volumes of connected devices, Microsoft claims. The Device Provisioning Service is available in East US, West Europe, and Southeast Asia starting today, and eventually will be available globally, the company added. 6. IoT Monitoring: Globalstar is launching SmartOne Solar -- a low maintenance and intelligent IoT device that provides remote monitoring and tracking over the Globalstar satellite network. Fixed and movable assets such as rail tank cars, containers, heavy equipment and vehicle fleets can be remotely monitored and tracked reliably, even when beyond the reach of other communications networks, the company claims. 5. M&A - IT Monitoring: Datadog has acquired Logmatic, a log management platform. Datadog already offers infrastructure monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM). The company is striving to compete more aggressively against New Relic and Cisco's AppDynamics. 4. New MSP Headquarters: Tenzing, an MSP, has relocated to a new state-of-the-art headquarters in Toronto. 3. M&A: Tomizone has acquired Bluesky Online Services, a managed services provider in New Zealand. Tomizone Chairman Ian Bailey said more acquisitions are on the way... 2. Tropical Storm Irma: Although the storm has weakened, there are 5.5 million people without power in Florida. A major storm surge flooded Jacksonville, Fla., this morning. Stay tuned to the latest updates here. 1. Never Forget: Today marks the 16th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. "Hundreds of people, including families of 9/11 victims and influential political and military figures will gather on the 9/11 Memorial for the 16th anniversary," according to organizers. Details are here.