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5 Channel Partner Updates: Friday 22 March 2019

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Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, March 22, 2019.

Here are timely updates designed for managed services providers (MSPs), cloud services providers (CSPs), IT consulting firms, systems integrators, VARs, independent software vendors (ISVs), and telco agents to sip on.

5. Distribution - Wireless WAN: Ingram Micro has agreed to distribute BEC Technologies' wireless WAN connectivity solutions in the United States.

4. Oracle Layoffs: Here's the background.

3. Funding - Solopreneur Software: HoneyBook, which develops business management and financial software for solopreneurs and freelancers, has raised $28 million in Series C funding. The platform allows users to manage projects, book clients, send invoices and get paid all from a single system.

2. Microsoft Security Software: Microsoft Windows Defender has been rebranded simply as Microsoft Defender — reflecting the security software’s extension from Windows to Apple macOS. The move is similar to previous rebrands such as Microsoft Windows Azure becoming Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Windows Intune becoming Microsoft Intune.

1. Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs: We’ll unveil the 2019 list during our next webcast. Register now to join us live or to listen on-demand.

Joe Panettieri

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.