5 Channel Partner Updates: Friday 16 August 2019 -

Here are five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, August 16, 2019.

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B. Freshly Brewed News and Chatter

1. MSP Software: What are revenues for Barracuda MSP's Managed Workplace, the recently acquired RMM software platform? We'll share clues soon.

2. Funding - 100 Startups: A new venture capital fund called 100X.VC plans to invest in 100 start-ups within one year. Meanwhile, I'm struggling to evaluate one good angel investment per month...

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

1. Cloudflare IPO Filing - Small Partner Program: Poke around the Cloudflare IPO filing and you'll notice that only 9 percent of the company's revenues come from channel partners -- though the partner revenue figure in actual dollars is growing. Still, there's no mention of MSPs or MSSPs in the filing, though Cloudflare has a partner program for such service providers.

2. Microsoft Azure Expert MSP: NTT Data Services is now a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP. Key capabilities include including cloud advisory services, application modernization and migration, advanced service management techniques, and continual improvement methodologies for Azure clients.

3, Data Protection: Zadara Storage and Veeam Software have partnered to offer a scale-out backup repository comprised of multiple tiers of storage, optimized for performance or capacity, Zadara says.