Channel markets

Cisco Systems acquiring ThousandEyes for digital experience, multi-cloud, Internet and SaaS application performance monitoring.

Telecom Italia (TIM) acquires ICT consultancy & Google Cloud Platform (GCP) partner Noovle -- which ranks among the Top 200 Public Cloud MSPs, ChannelE2E reports.

As of April 2020, nearly one-third of SMBs in the study said their business wasn’t operating, a Facebook and Small Business Roundtable study finds.

Most small businesses with SBA PPP (paycheck protection program) funding remain confused about meeting its terms and conditions, NFIB survey finds.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) slashes executive compensation & preps layoffs as revenues fall. Still, HPE GreenLake & Intelligent Edge solutions are bright spots for partners.

IBM layoffs arrive even as new CEO Arvind Krishna bets heavily on recent Red Hat acquisition and multi-cloud software strategy across AWS, Azure & Google.

List of technology conference cancelations & postponements amid coronavirus pandemic. Update: RSA Conference 2021 pushed back from February to May.