Here are five (actually more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and much more to start your day for Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. Diversity (or Lack of Diversity) In the IT Channel: Is the IT channel evolving in terms of diversity, equality and inclusion? This Q1 2022 Diversity Report from Dave Sobel offers a reality check.
2. Private Equity and Software: Thoma Bravo has completed fundraising for Thoma Bravo Credit Fund II in $ 3.3 billion in total available capital, including leverage. The credit platform has invested more than $ 2.0 billion in 39 unique portfolio companies. The private equity firm did not say whether or how the credit platform aligned with MSP’s current software portfolio companies such as Barracuda, ConnectWise, N-able and Sophos, among many others.
3. Funding – Small Business Credit Reviews: Uplinq Financial Technologies raised $ 3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by N49P and Surface Ventures. The Uplinq platform enables banks and lenders to “deliver financial integration for their small business customers around the world,” the startup asserted.
4. IT Service Management (ITSM) – ServiceNow Partner: 3CLogic has expanded its partnership with ServiceNow. The relationship enhances ServiceNow’s ITSM software platform with additional voice -enabled features.
5. Remote IT Support Software: TeamViewer Tensor and TeamViewer Frontline are now available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Microsoft AppSource.
6. Microsoft Partner Focus: Improving, a digital services company backed by private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners, has formed a Microsoft -focused team in partnership with Microsoft.
7. MSP Cloud Marketplace – Email Security: Pax8 agreed to distribute the solutions from Check Point’s email security group, formerly Avana.
8. Partnership – Deloitte and VMware: The global IT consulting firm and the software company announced the Deloitte VMware Distributed Cloud (DVDC) practice.
9. Partner Program – Networking: Adtran has launched the Broadband Partner Program. The program combines Adtran’s fiber broadband access expertise with channel partner support.
10. Partner Program – Threat Hunt: Hunters has launched the Partner Certification Program and the Hunters Partner Hub online portal.
11. Partner Program – Colocation Services: NFINIT, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions, connectivity, and colocation, is “streamlining its go-to-market strategy using a channel-first approach,” the company said.
12. Google Cloud – Data Management: Google has announced several improvements to Google Cloud data management. Key steps include a preview of BigLake, a data lake storage engine that “removes data limitations by merging data lakes and warehouses,” the company asserted.
13. Device as a Service: Everphone, a device-as-a-service startup, provides 60,000 Hyundai Android tablet computers to service-deficient households across America. This effort, which will take place over 12 months, is part of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity Program in partnership with network connective provider Go Technology and mobile device management provider EBF Inc., according to everphone.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- Robin Robins Boot Camp 2022 (April 19-22, Nashville, Tennessee)
- Dell Technologies World 2022 (May 2-5, Las Vegas)
- Fortinet Accelerate 2022 (May 10-13, Virtual)
- IBM Think 2022 (May 10-11)
- ServiceNow Knowledge 2022 (May 11-12, New York at The Netherlands)
- The complete ChannelE2E event calendar
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