Here are five (actually more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, August 7, 2020. Sip up.
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A. What’s Happening Today
1. SolarWinds Potentially Spinning Off SolarWinds MSP: Here's all of our analysis of the news, which broke Thursday afternoon...
2. Cloud Distribution - Breach Mitigation: Ingram Micro Cloud has agreed to distribute Balbix BreachControl.
3. Distribution - Business Continuity Guidance: D&H has pulled together various business continuity sales and marketing tools for partners that are assisting end-customers with Work From Home and Work Remote strategies.
4, MSPs - Hardware as a Service: Uplevel Systems has unveiled a new Equipment Purchase Program -- which allows SMB customers to buy Uplevel equipment outright, or buy Uplevel hardware and services on a pure subscription basis.
5. Dropbox Quarterly Earnings: Sales beat estimates but shares tumbled as CFO prepares to exit, Bloomberg reports.
6. OpenText Quarterly Earnings: The software company, which now owns the Carbonite and Webroot software businesses, delivered stronger-than-expected Q4 earnings and revenue.
7. Avaya Branding: The company has launched the Avaya OneCloud brand -- which encompasses the entire Avaya portfolio. The lineup includes Avaya OneCloud CCaaS, Avaya OneCloud UCaaS and Avaya OneCloud CPaaS. The portfolio can be deployed in the cloud - including subscription and managed services, as well as Avaya’s private and public cloud offers, Avaya says.
8. 5G Networking: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Verizon Communications opened new 5G server sites in Boston and Silicon Valley, pitching businesses to use the next-generation network for everything from health care to tracking sports data, Bloomberg reports.
9. Government Controversy - SAP: South African investigators are seeking to recover more than 400 million rand (US$23 million) from SAP for two government contracts they allege were entered into unlawfully, Reuters reports.
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