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5 Channel Partner Program and MSP Market News Updates: 10 November 2022

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Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, November 10, 2022. Sip up.

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  • A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News

    1. Live Blog – ConnectWise IT Nation Connect 2022 News: Find our coverage here.

    2. Partnership - Distribution and 5G Services: Ingram Micro and T-Mobile have partnered to promote “SIM to Cloud Solutions” with the IT channel. The relationship's top two goals:

    • Further educate the market on the benefits of 5G and secure connectivity.
    • Speed the adoption of industry-aligned 5G solutions at scale by simplifying the sales cycle for the IT channel and their customers.
    • 3. Partnership - Managed Detection and Response (MDR): eSentire has partnered with InfoTrust to expand its presence in Australia.

      4. Partnership - XDR and Cloud Services: Data Theorem and AlphaSOC have partnered to address attack surface management for cloud-native applications.

      5. ConnectWise and Arrow ECS: A partnership between the MSP software provider and distributor surfaced yesterday. In some ways, I think it counters the Ingram Micro Cloud Blue business. In other ways, I wonder if something bigger is brewing between Arrow ECS and ConnectWise. Among the factoids to keep in mind: Arrow has a market cap of $6.54 billion. And private equity firm Thoma Bravo has owned ConnectWise since 2019. I suspect Thoma Bravo may explore a potential ConnectWise sale in 2023. And ConnectWise earlier in its history explored potential M&A with distributors... ...

      B. In-Person Channel Partner Summits & MSP Conferences

      1. ConnectWise IT Nation Connect (November 9-11, Orlando, Florida)
      2. Tanium Converge 2022 (November 14-17, Austin, Texas)
      3. Amazon AWS re:Invent 2022 (November 28-December 2, Las Vegas)
      4. Marketopia GrowCon 2022 (December 12-14, Florida)
      5. Palo Alto Networks Ignite22 (December 12-15, Las Vegas)
      6. All Tech ConferencesListed Here
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      8. 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.

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