Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Sip up.
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A. What’s Brewing Today: Technology News
1. MSP Spin-Out: Kyndryl, the pending managed infrastructure spin-out from IBM, has named its board of directors. The spin-out is expected to occur before the end of 2021.
2. M&A Rumor - Private Equity and Outsourcing: Private equity firm KKR is in advanced talks to buy Australian outsourcing and customer experience (CX) company Probe Group in a deal that could value it at about A$1.2 billion ($871 million), Bloomberg reports.
3. Funding - Private Equity and Critical Infrastructure Testing: OceanSound Partners has invested in the RMA Group of Companies, which provides technology-enabled laboratory testing, inspection, and quality management services for critical infrastructure end markets. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed
4. Executive Hire - Application Authorization as a Service: Cloudentity has hired VMware veteran Jason Needham as CEO.
5. Executive Hire - Email Security: Egress has hired Mimecast veteran Steven Malone as VP of product management.
6. Executive Hire - MSP: Ensono has hired Faction and Rackspace veteran Duan Van Der Westhuizen as senior VP of public cloud.
7. Ransomware Mitigation - Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR): Backblaze has announced Instant Recovery in Any Cloud—a solution that's designed to "make ransomware recovery into a VMware and Hyper-V based cloud easy for any IT team," Backblaze asserts.
8. Integration - Robotic Process Automation (RPA): An Alteryx-UiPath integration offers bi-direction communications between the analytics automation and RPA software platforms.
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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