5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 05 September 2019 -

Here are five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, September 5, 2019.

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B. Freshly Brewed News and Chatter

1. SolarWinds Empower MSP: Our live coverage from the conference is here.

2. Research - IT Management in Small Business: Kaseya's 2019 State of IT Operations for Small and Midsize Businesses survey results are here.

3. M&A - Private Equity and MSPs: CMI, backed by private equity firm BTA Limited, has acquired London-based IT specialist BTA Limited. This marks Panoramic’s first investment into Northern Ireland and twelfth investment from its second fund.

4. M&A - Azure Cloud Migrations: Microsoft has acquired Movere, a cloud migration specialist. The deal may assist partners and customers with workload migrations to Microsoft Azure.

5. Private Equity - Software: TPG Capital is acquiring CollabNet VersionOne from Vector Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed.

6. Talent - Google Cloud Alliances: Google Cloud has hired former SAP executive Dave Hutchison to a senior position responsible for developing and expanding alliances with some of its largest partners around the world, CRN reported.

7. Talent - MSP Coaching: Entrepreneur and former MSP owner MJ Shoer continues to consult for a range of companies. His latest engagement involves a lead coach role with ASCII.

8. Talent: CloudJumper has hired Richard Helms as director of managed workspaces.

9. Dell Managed Services: Keep an eye on Dell ProManage services for corporate end-users... ...

10. Financial Results - Dynatrace: The application performance monitoring (APM) company announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2020. Among the key metrics:

Total revenue was $122.6 million, up 25 percent from the corresponding quarter last year.
a net loss of $49 million, compared to a net loss of $23.5 million in the corresponding quarter last year.

The results generally beat Wall Street's expectations. The earnings report comes at a key time for the APM and cloud monitoring software market. Dynatrace launched a successful IPO earlier this year; Rival Datadog is preparing an IPO; and New Relic recently announced revenue results that revealed some sales challenges.

C. Channel Partner Programs and Strategic Alliances: MSPs, CSPs, ISVs, VARs

1. Performance Analytics: Bodega Technologies will promote Accedian to customers as a platform for performance analytics and end user experience solutions.

2. Distribution: Synnex has agreed to distribute Clevertouch interactive display technologies to U.S. partners that support K-12 and Higher Education customers.

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