Greetings and salutations. Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. MSP Conference - N-able Empower 2022: A recap of N-able CEO John Pagliuca's keynote at Empower 2022 is here.
2. N-able Multi-Cloud Management Software?: Here's a preview of how N-able plans to help MSPs manage Azure cloud assets and workloads. The effort may eventually extend to Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
3. Security Awareness Training for MSPs: TitanHQ has announced SafeTitan Security Awareness Training for Managed Service Providers.
4. IT Consulting - Company Breakup: An Atos plan to split into two publicly listed companies will be completed by mid-2023 at the earliest, Reuters reported.
5. Distribution - Government IT Services Rebrand: TD SYNNEX Public Sector has launched as a unified government IT services brand that combines the former DLT Solutions, Tech Data Public Sector Solutions and SYNNEX GOVSolv offerings.
6. Distribution - Threat Defense: The TD Synnex Cyber Range cybersecurity training facility will now include Infoblox's BloxOne Threat Defense platform for networking and security services.
7. Distribution - XDR: MEC Networks has agreed to distribute Cybereason Defense Platform to to VARs and MSSPs across the Philippines.
8. Distribution - SOAR and Threat Intelligence: Orca Tech has agreed to distribute Cyware's security operations solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
9. Partner Program: VIPRE Security Group is making "significant changes" to the company’s channel-first model to "ensure the success of its partners, sales teams, and distributors." The updates include:
- Doubling the company’s channel sales team and placing them regionally to assist partners better.
- Aligning the end user sales teams to the channel organization for co-selling and collaboration.
- Opening the company’s product portfolio to "make it easier to sell the entire suite of VIPRE Security Group’s services and solutions."
- Expanding channel sales and support operations across EMEA including the DACH and Benelux regions.
VIPRE did not disclose specific channel headcount figures.
10. IBM Partner Ecosystem Investments: Details are here...
B. Annual Channel Partner Conferences and MSP Summits
- Empower By N-able MSP Partner Conference (October 3-5, Las Vegas)
- Vision 2022 MSP Conference from The 20 (October 4-7, Frisco, Texas)
- Automation Anywhere Imagine 2022 (October 4-5, New York)
- OpenText World 2022 (October 4-6, Las Vegas)
- Microsoft Ignote 2022 (October 12-14, Seattle, Washington)
