Here are five (actually more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. Datto's Next Cybersecurity Move: Details are here.
2. Rackspace For Sale Again?: It sure sounds that way.
3. IT Services Momentum: Crayon reported its highest ever first-quarter gross profit, and operating margins improved to 15.7%, the company said.
4. Funding - SMB Hiring Service: WizeHire has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from Amplo and Mercury. WizeHire is now valued at $250 million post-money.
5. Data Protection: Cohesity has released Cohesity FortKnox — a software as a service (SaaS) data isolation and recovery solution.
6. If You Can't Beat Them...: IBM has signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, with plans to offer a "broad array" of IBM software delivered as a service via AWS. The news reinforces IBM's strategy as a multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud specialist after the IBM Cloud failed to keep pace with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud growth.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- Fortinet Accelerate 2022 (May 10-13, Virtual)
- IBM Think 2022 (May 10-11, Boston & Virtual)
- Cisco Marketing Velocity 2022 (May 10-11, Virtual)
- ServiceNow Knowledge 2022 (May 11-12, New York and The Netherlands)
- ChannelE2E’s complete event calendar
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