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5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 21 November 2019

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Here are five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, November 21, 2019.

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A. What’s Hot Today

1. Cisco Leadership: Cisco is combining its enterprise and data center networking. Also, the company is renaming its existing cloud computing software business, expanding it to include server products and appointing a new head of the group, Liz Centoni, The Information reports.

2. Monitoring - Google Cloud Platform: cPacket Networks, a provider of hybrid network monitoring and traffic analysis for security and performance, now support Google Cloud Platform (GCP)'s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) feature.

3. Small Business Communications: Sprint has unveiled a new small business phone service called Omni.

B. Partnerships and Strategic Alliances

1. MSP Education: MSPs have completed more than 38,000 sessions across roughly 120 courses hosted in the MSP Institute, an online service that SolarWinds launched in February 2019. The institute is hosted withon the SolarWinds Customer Success Center.

2. Cisco SMB Partner Push: More details surfaced in this blog.

3. Business Automation - ServiceNow: Unisys CloudForte for ServiceNow is now available. It allows customers to "automate and accelerate secure digital transformation and cloud operations utilizing ServiceNow enterprise platform services," Unisys asserts.

4. UK Distribution - Google Chromebooks: Getech Distribution has agreed to distribute Acer's Chromebook Enterprise devices.

5. All Partner Programs: Search the comprehensive ChannelE2E Partner Program Database here. Also, submit your company information here and your partner program can be listed in the database.

C. Next Five Technology Conferences

  1. Amazon AWS re:Invent 2019 (Dec 2-6, Las Vegas)
  2. Markforged 3D Printer Global Partner Summit (Jan. 5-8, 2020, Savannah, Georgia)
  3. NRF 2020: Retail's Big Show (January 12-14, New York)
  4. Citrix Summit 2020 (January 13-15, Orlando, Florida)
  5. Auvik Networks Frankly MSP Live (January 14-15, Santa Barbara, California)
  6. BonusChannelE2E’s complete event calendar

Got news to share for our morning update? Email me: [email protected].

Joe Panettieri

Joe Panettieri is co-founder & editorial director of MSSP Alert and ChannelE2E, the two leading news & analysis sites for managed service providers in the cybersecurity market.