Here are five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, September 20, 2019.
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B. Today’s Morning Brew
1. Top 200 MSSPs 2019: In case you missed the news, our sister site MSSP Alert has unveiled the Top 200 MSSPs for 2019 -- an extensive look at the world's Top 200 managed security services providers, managed detection and response (MDR) specialists, Security Operations Center as a Service (SOCaaS) companies and more.2. IT Service Management (ITSM) - Government:ServiceNow has secured FedRAMP High authorization. The designation enables federal agencies to embrace the ITSM platform if they so choose.3. M&A - Funding Ready: Apex Technology Acquisition Corporation apparently has raised $350 million for potential acquisitions...4. M&A - Is Splunk Buyer or Seller?: Wall Street analysts often consider Splunk a buyout target, but CEO Doug Merritt says his company remains a buyer in the data market...
C. Channel Partner Programs and Strategic Alliances: MSPs, CSPs, ISVs, VARs
1. Talent - Technology Training: CompTIA and the Grow with Google program are partnering to help certified IT professionals stand out from the crowd. We'll be watching to see if CompTIA announces similar certification partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Microsoft cloud teams, in particular.LinkedIn: Charlie Tomeo, VP of worldwide channel sales, Carbonite2. Carbonite-Webroot:Carbonite, parent of Webroot, will move away from a partner program that required robust certifications to get a healthy margin and instead embrace a model where certifications provide a margin boost but aren’t a barrier to entry, according to VP Charlie Tomeo (as reported by CRN).3. Office 365 Data Protection:Databank has partnered with Veeam Software to introduce Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Databank is the latest in an extremely long list of companies that now offer data protection for Office 365, Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, OneDrive, Teams and more.4. 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.
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.