Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Wednesday, February 12, 2020. Sip up.
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A. What’s Hot Today
1. M&A - Alternative Bid: Inflow Technologies abandoned its company sale to Tech Data because a rival bidder emerged, ChannelAsia reports.
2, M&A - Private Equity and MSP: TPx Communications has been acquired by a private equity firm. The deal includes multiple executive changes, though TPx says it remains committed to channel partners.
3. M&A - Private Equity and User Experience: Insight Partners has invested in Lakeside Software, a developer of digital experience monitoring software for the enterprise. Neither Lakeside nor Insight Partners disclosed whether the deal involved a majority or minority equity investment.
4. Talent - Data Protection: Infrascale has named a new CEO and multiple CXO hires. Here's what may be next for Infrascale in the very crowded market for data protection, backup and disaster recovery (BDR) solutions.
5. Cloud Distribution - Security Alerting: Pax8 has agreed to offer Novacoast's novaSOC to partners. novSOC is a monitoring and alerting security service that consolidates input from multiple threat intelligence sources to validate indicators of network compromise, the companies say.
6. Distribution - Partnership: CloudLand and CloudOak are partnering to better serve MSPs, resellers and channel partners in the Benelux region.
7. Department of Defense: Carahsoft has won a major government IT services contract with the Department of Defense. The deal involves Splunk....
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