Channel investors

NuMSP acquires Salient IT, a managed services provider (MSP) supporting SMB customers in Sacramento, California. This is NuMSP's seventh acquisition.

Private equity firm Thoma Bravo raises $12.6B for enterprise software acquisitions & investments. Cybersecurity firms Symantec & McAfee have been rumored buyout targets.

Electric builds chat bots & automated systems to disrupt traditional managed services providers (MSPs). Venture capitalists bet $38 million on the MSP disruption strategy.

Private equity firm Renovus Capital acquires Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & G Suite partner Tempus Nova. PE interest in MSPs & cloud IT consultants remains strong.

DXC Technology acquires the Microsoft Dynamics 365 technology services business of EG A/S. DXC has been buying Microsoft, ServiceNow & Salesforce partners.

Dropbox acquires HelloSign, an eSignature & document workflow platform that competes vs. DocuSign & Adobe's technologies.

Microsoft acquires PostgreSQL experts Citus Data. The buyout may have implications for MSPs that offer managed database services across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Oracle Cloud.