Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, July 22, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. Global Channel Chief - Data Protection: Arcserve has hired Denise Parker as executive vice president of global sales, reporting to CEO Brannon Lacey.
2. WebEx for MSPs: Cisco has launched a new Webex Wholesale Route-to-Market (RTM) for Service Provider partners in the SMB sector. The new sales model "includes a single commercial agreement with each partner and a self-service platform for Service Providers to deliver managed services for Webex, as well as the agility, scalability and flexibility to create their own co-branded offers," Cisco said.
3. ConnectWise Partners of the Year: ConnectWise will announced the WISE Awards -- essentially, the company's partners of the years -- during the IT Nation Connect 2022 conference for MSPs, which is scheduled for November 9-11 in Orlando, Florida.
4. Private Equity and Business Automation: Summit Partners, which backs MSP software provider NinjaOne and MDR provider Red Canary, has invested $41.4 million in TextExpander -- a business automation software provider.
5. PC Sales Slowdown - Hard Drives: Seagate Technology, the biggest maker of computer hard drives, gave a weak forecast for the current period citing “weakening global economic conditions,” sending the stock down more than 10%, Bloomberg noted.
6. Venture Capital Slowdown: SoftBank, the lead venture capital investor behind Pax8, halved its deal flow from April to June 2022 after the existing Vision Fund took heavy losses, Bloomberg reported.
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