Here are five (actually, more) updates on technology news, insights, chatter, and much more to start your day for Thursday, January 20, 2022. Suction.
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A. Today Technology, Channel Chief and Partner Program News
1. MSP Software – Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM): MSPs can run Action1’s RMM software for free for up to 100 endpoints forever.
2. SaaS Application Management: Axonius announced Axonius SaaS Management to help security, IT, finance, and risk teams control the complexity, cost, and risk of software as a service (SaaS). We’ll be watching to see if or how Axonius ranks against MSP-friendly SaaS application management, monitoring and security tools from Augmentt and SaaS Alerts, among others.
3. ServiceNow Partner Rebrands: Highmetric, backed by private equity firm Gryphon Investors, is now labeled as NewRocket after making several partner acquisitions of ServiceNow.
4. ServiceNow Consulting Partner: DXC Technology has launched a DXC ServiceNow Strategic Business Group.
5. Executive Leadership – Cloud Marketplace: Pax8 hired Nikki Meyer as VP of global vendor alliances, and Caroline Goles as VP of digital sales strategy. Meyer will report to Aaron Garza, SVP of business development, and Goles will report to David James, chief data officer. Hires come amid Pax8’s continued expansion around the world and are marching towards a potential IPO.
6. Executive Leadership – Cloud Services: Lightstream hired Joe Vadakkan as executive vice president for global sales and engineering.
7. Datadog Channel Chief: Datadog named Sean Walters as chief revenue officer (CRO) to “work closely with go-to-market and customer-facing teams and oversee all global sales initiatives.” Unfortunately, the announcement did not mention channel partners or MSP’s go-to-market strategies. Many MSPs use Datadog to monitor and secure various cloud applications.
8. Preventing SMB Ransomware: CyberSaint launched CyberBase, which allows customers to understand their ransomware risk profile aligned with the NIST Ransomware Risk Management Framework.
9. Dell Technology as a Service: Dell continues to expand its APEX as-a-service portfolio. The latest options include APEX Multi-Cloud Data Services, Backup Services, along with various multi-cloud file storage and DevOps efforts. Dell’s APEX revenues seem to be growing rapidly – though they likely represent a small percentage of the hardware giant’s total quarterly sales.
10. Funding – Password Management: 1Password raised $ 620 million in a funding led by ICONIQ Growth.
11. Partnership – Data Security at Google Cloud: Protegrity has partnered with Google Cloud to support the upcoming release of BigQuery remote functions.
12. Partnership – Windows 11 Deployments & Lifecycle Management: ReadyWorks and Access IT Automation have partnered to automate Windows lifecycle management-including Windows 11 launches.
13. Partnership – AWS: SoftwareONE and AWS are partnering to “accelerate their customers’ cloud journeys.”
15. Research-SD-WAN Market: Aryaka’s 2021 State of the WAN Report is now available.
16. Research – Businesses Seek MSP Help: Many businesses (55 percent) are spending more money on their MSPs now compared to previous years as they move to the cloud (36 percent), undergo digital transformation (35 percent), and focus on managing threats in cybersecurity (34 percent), research at LogicMonitor indicates.
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)
- The complete ChannelE2E event calendar
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