5 Channel Partner Updates: Thursday 02 April 2020 -

Here are five (actually far more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, April 2, 2020. Sip up.

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A. What’s Hot Today

1. Private Equity Deals On Hold?: Here's the thesis.

2. COVID-19 Partner Assistance: The latest updates involve...

Cognizant.

SolarWinds resources.

SecureWorks resources.

HP Inc. resources.

3. Partner Program - SD-WANs: VergX, a Secure SD-WAN Service provider has partnered with CNSG, a Master Agent.

4. Partner Program - MSPs: Planar has launched the EverNew Managed Service Program, a multi-year leasing program for Planar display solutions in the United States and Canada.

5. Cisco Partner Innovation Challenge: Details are here.

6. Distribution - Disaster Recovery: Watsoft has agreed to distribute CloudOak into the French IT services market.

7. Distribution - Microsoft 365: Ingram Micro Cloud has launched programs to assist resellers amid the rebranding of Microsoft Office 365 SMB subscriptions.

8. UCaaS Market Trends: Masergy offers this perspective.

9. Unified Channel Management: ZINFI Technologies, Inc. has launched a set of tools for channel organizations to substantially improve remote collaboration capabilities, the firm says.

10. Cyber Protection Research: Acronis offers these findings.