Channel Brief: ClearScale Offering VMware Pricing Relief, HPE to Acquire Morpheus Data

Happy Friday! It’s the last day of the week and your final day with me, Jessica C. Davis, bringing you the Channel Brief rundown in the morning as I substitute for vacationing Sharon Florentine.

We’ve got a cybersecurity acquisition, a data and AI acquisition, some help for suffering VMware customers, a new CEO for a solution provider, and cybersecurity support for all these new ARM-based AI PCs.

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Today’s Tech, Channel and MSP News

1. Cybersecurity Acquisition - Cybersecurity provider, Everfox, formerly Forcepoint Federal, completed the acquisition of Garrison Technology Ltd. The acquisition integrates Garrison’s hardware-enforced security (hardsec) and software capabilities into Everfox’s software portfolio of cross domain, threat protection and insider risk solutions to deliver comprehensive cybersecurity to enterprise customers in government and regulated industries.

2. Pricing Help for VMware Victims - San Francisco-based AWS Premier Tier Services Partner ClearScale is looking to help VMware customers struggling with new Broadcom pricing by helping them move workloads over to AWS. ClearScale has introduced a new VMware-to-AWS Accelerator offering. In a blog post the company calls AWS Native “A stable, scalable and cost-effective alternative.”

3. Buying into the Data Cloud - HPE has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheus Data, part of its commitment to simplify hybrid IT complexity for customers. Enterprise IT estates are becoming more heterogeneous and Morpheus Data’s capabilities are pivotal not only for enhancing hybrid cloud management, but also for driving AI innovation, HPE said.  Morpheus Data's include multicloud management and expands the capabilities that channel partners and MSPs can leverage to support their customer's IT estates, the company said.

4. Meet the New Boss - Avanade, a Microsoft solution provider, has named Rodrigo Caserta CEO, effective September 1. Caserta succeeds Pamela Maynard, who will step down at the end of August to join Microsoft as Chief AI Transformation Officer for Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS).   

5. Cybersecurity Support for ARM-based Systems - Malwarebytes’ ThreatDown product line now fully supports ARM-based architecture, providing enhanced security for Copilot+ PCs, including Microsoft Surface Pro, Lenovo Yoga Slim and ThinkPad, and Dell Inspiron, among others, the company said. This allows security service providers to extend their protection to ARM-based architecture. ARM-based PC shipments are forecasted to have 25% market share by 2027. And as AI continues to grow and expand to endpoints, those endpoints will leverage ARM architecture. Now, users of those endpoints will have enhanced security, performance and efficiency, Malwarebytes said.

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