Channel technologies

On Assignment acquires ECS Federal, one of the largest privately-held government IT services contractors, for $775 million. ECS specializes in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, DevOps, IT modernization, and advanced science and engineering services.

CloudBerry Lab hires Veeam veteran Doug Hazelman as VP of technical marketing. He'll drive the cloud backup company's MSP & customer community efforts.

Deloitte acquires ATADATA for multi-cloud management capabilities across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform & more.

Former Google Cloud Channel Chief 
Bertrand Yansouni joins Rubrik as VP of worldwide channel for cloud backup, disaster recovery & data management partner push.

xOps leverages ServiceNow, New Relic, SolarWinds and more to build DevOps & cloud monitoring platform services for customers & MSP partners.

Suitors spent more than $20 billion on data center mergers and acquisitions in 2017, a big annual M&A record, according Synergy Research Group.

Many organizations are gaining some DevOps speed. But the race toward speed and quality is still elusive for many companies.

The biggest challenges to multi-cloud management involve people, planning, processes and more, according to VMware & MIT Technology Review research.