5 Channel Partner Program and MSP Market Updates: 22 April 2022 -

Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, April 22, 2022. Sip up.

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

1. Top 100 Vertical Market MSPs for 2022: The complete list and research are here.

2. Four-Day Work Week: Civo, a pure play cloud native service provider, has shifted to a four-day working week, following a successful trial across the business. Going forward, Civo employees will work a new week of 34 hours - reduced from 36 hours. This shift will mean Civo teams will now be able to work 8.5 hour days across the four-day work week. Staff will also be able to work these hours across a five-day week, should that approach work best for them, the company noted.

3. AWS Software Partner: Pyramid Analytics has joined the AWS ISV Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for approved independent software vendors (ISVs) that run on or integrate with AWS.

4. Managed Cloud Services: Cloudreach, now owned by Atos, has launched Sunstone -- a software platform "designed to accelerate the modernization of in-cloud environments," the company says. Specifically, Sunstone "automates the continuous modernization of in-cloud applications to drive innovation, boost performance, increase security and reduce costs," according to Cloudreach.

5. U.S. Energy & Cybersecurity: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $12 million for six new research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects that will "develop innovative cybersecurity technology to help ensure energy delivery systems are designed, installed, operated, and maintained to survive and recover quickly from cyberattacks," the agency said.