Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Tuesday, September 28, 2021. Sip up.
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A. What’s Brewing Today: Technology News
1. MSPs - M&A Advisor: Cogent Growth Partners advised HBK and Vertical Solutions on their recent M&A deal. Cogent served as the acquisition intermediary, assisting both companies in due diligence, deal negotiation and transaction completion, Cogent disclosed. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
2. MSPs - M&A Fund: MSP Corp Investments Inc. has raised $35 million to acquire and/or invest in managed IT services providers (MSPs) across Canada.
3. MSP Investor Raises $1.75 Billion: Here's a look at Apax Partners' new fund...
4. M&A - Robotic Process Automation: Datto investor Vista Equity Partners is acquiring Blue Prism Group, a robotic process automation (RPA) software company. Vista, a private equity firm, plans to tuck Blue Prism into Tibco Software.
5. Executive Leadership - ServiceNow Partner: Pathways Consulting Group, a ServiceNow Elite Partner, has promoted Mary Manzo to CEO.
6. Executive Leadership - Cloud Networking at the Edge: Kaloom has hired Dell Technologies veteran Neeloy Bhattacharyya as VP of customer experience.
7. Partnership - Cloud Compliance: Telos, Splunk and StackArmor have partnered to focus on the authority to operate (ATO) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) program. The goal: Assist businesses and agencies within regulated markets to achieve and maintain compliance.
8. Video Conferencing: Verizon Business has introduced a redesigned BlueJeans platform for the hybrid workplace. The update leans heavily on BlueJeans Spaces, which provides a virtual environment for team meetings and collaboration.
9. Funding - Appwrite, an open source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform for web, mobile and flutter developers, has raised $10 million in a seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Flybridge with participation of Ibex Investors and Seedcamp.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- VMware VMworld 2021 (October 5-7, Virtual)
- UiPath Forward IV 2021 (October 5-6, Las Vegas)
- Google Cloud Next 2021 (October 12-14, Virtual)
- Sherweb Accelerate 2021 (October 18-20, Hollywood, Florida)
- Kaseya Connect IT Global 2021 (October 19-21, Las Vegas)
- MSP Sales Compensation Plans for 2022 (October 21, ChannelE2E Webcast)
- ChannelE2E’s complete event calendar
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