Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and much more to start your day for Wednesday, January 19, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today Technology, Channel Chief and Partner Program News
1. New Funds – Cybersecurity and Managed IT Services: Worklyn Partners has raised $ 35 million in funding focused on the IT services and cybersecurity market. Worklyn’s vision is to create a one-stop-shop for integrated cybersecurity and managed IT services, the investor indicated.
2. Cloud Spend Management – Wasted SaaS Licenses: The average organization uses only 60% of their issued SaaS licenses, leaving 40% wasted, unused and ripe for optimization, according to Zylo research.
3. Return on Investment (ROI) and Technology Spending: ServiceNow launches ServiceNow Impact – a service that strives to help customers accelerate their return on large investments in technology. ServiceNow Impact combines AI -powered recommendations, expert guidance, premium tech support and tools – all delivered in a personalized digital experience, the company says. ServiceNow did not disclose pricing for the service.
4. M&A – Subscription Management Services: Chargebee has acquired the Brightback customer retention platform. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
5. Channel Chief – Application Security and Compliance: Onapsis hired Rocco Donnino as senior VP of global strategic alliances and channels. In his role, Donnino will be responsible for scaling the reach of The Onapsis Platform through global system integrators, value-added resellers (VARs), managed service providers (MSPs), and technology alliances.
6. Expanded Partnerships – Cloud Marketplace: Pax8 and SkyKick have expanded their partnership to offer MSPs access to the Cloud Manager application. The technology enables MSPs to automate workflows and tasks that increase help desk productivity, Pax8 and SkyKick say.
7. Partner Program – Storage: Pure Storage has announced related updates as a service to its partner program. The enhancements become official at the start of Pure’s net financial year, which begins on February 7, 2022.
8. Partnership – Xerox and Oracle Cloud: Xerox is using Oracle Cloud to bring “new technologies to market focused on 3D printing for manufacturing, structural health monitoring for critical infrastructure, and augmented reality to improve customer support,” the two companies indicated. .
9. Collaboration – Government Threat Modeling: Automated threat modeling company IriusRisk and Methods has partnered to “deliver embedded threat modeling to improve the security of public sector services,” the companies said.
10. Partner Program: StayLinked launches Evolve, a no-code integration platform that enables channel partners to adopt and deploy Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies with legacy terminal emulation (TE) warehouse management solutions (WMS ), says the company.
11. Partnership – SOC and Splunk: Ang SOC Prime CCM App for Splunk has been tested for the Splunk Cloud Platform, which allows security teams to “stream real-time relevant content from the SOC Prime Threat Detection Marketplace in both Splunk’s on-premises and cloud-based environments, “said the company.
12. Partnership – Cloud Application Security: to Apiiro The Code Risk Platform is now available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
13. Talent: Virsec hired Brian Marlier as chief revenue officer to drive the next phase of its growth. The move comes after Virsec raised in 2021 $ 100 million in Series C funding. Virsec’s customer base grew 700 percent in 2021, though actual revenue and EBITDA figures were not disclosed.
14. Talent: Forty8Fifty Labs, an Atlassian partner named Ben Chou as VP of sales and business development.
15. Funding-Customer Onboard: Rocketlane, a customer onboarding platform built for the purpose, has raised $ 18 million in Series A funding.
16. Funding – Revenue Operations Software: Clari raised $ 225 million in Series F funding at a post-money valuation of $ 2.6 billion. Blackstone led the latest round, with participation from Light Street Capital and Maverick Capital as well as current investors B Capital Group, Bain Capital Ventures, Madrona Ventures, Northgate Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital Global Equities , Silver Lake Partners, and Tenaya Capital.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- Check Point CPX 360 2022 (January 25-27, Virtual)
- Dynatrace Perform (February 7-11, Las Vegas)
- ASCII 2022 MSP Success Summit (February 16-17, Houston)
- NerdioCon 2022 (February 21-23, Cancun, Mexico)
- ThreatLocker Zero Trust World 2022 (February 21-23, Orlando, Florida)
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