CSPs

Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired Intermedia, a cloud services provider (CSP) & cloud business applications provider.

Ensono, an IT solutions provider in Chicago, has acquired Attenda, a UK-based MSP focused on mission-critical applications and hybrid managed IT services.

Four private equity firms have united to bid on CenturyLink Inc.'s cloud data center business, according to Reuters. Is a long-awaited sale drawing closer?

Intermedia has hired Microsoft Office 365 and cloud channel partner veteran Eric Martorano as senior VP of worldwide sales.

Kaseya R&D is bolstering Traverse for Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, cloud & network management. Plus, Kaseya rehired Andrew Morgan to drive Traverse sales.

Box is working more closely with Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft & channel partners to further accelerate Box's business, according to CEO Aaron Levie.

The Microsoft Advisor program will no longer pay Office 365 & cloud sales commissions to resellers, effective Oct. 1, 2016. Here's a CSP path forward.

Tropical Storm Hermine could trigger flooding in Florida, Georgia & the Carolinas. MSPs & cloud providers should heed lessons from the Louisiana floods.