Here are five (actually more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, April 7, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. M&A - Data Center Rumor: Cyxtera apparently is up for sale... (yet again).
2. Warren Buffett Backs HP Inc.: Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it has purchased nearly 121 million shares of HP. The investment gives Berkshire a roughly 11.4% stake in HP, worth about $4.2 billion based on the PC and printing company's closing stock price on April 6, 2022 of $34.91, Reuters reported.
3. Channel Chief: GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) has hired Michael Day as its new VP of partner sales.
4. Partnership - Cloud Data Protection: MSP360 Managed Backup now supports Wasabi’s new storage regions in Frankfurt, Germany; London, England; and Paris, France, the companies said.
5. Partnership - Multi-Cloud MSP Data Protection: Rackspace has partnered with Cohesity to offer multi-cloud managed backup and recovery solutions to customers worldwide. The effort includes data protection for VMware-based clouds, Rackspace noted.
6. Desktop as a Service (DaaS): TD Synnex has launched Click-to-Run, a managed virtual desktop as a service that leverages Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
7. Integration - CloudBlue and CloudSense: Ingram Micro's CloudBlue is partnering with CloudSense, a provider of Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) software. The result: An integration between the two systems will "allow telecommunications providers to enrich their own portfolio of B2B solutions more efficiently," CloudBlue and CloudSense asserted.
8. Endpoint Management: Tanium, which develops a converged endpoint management platform, is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
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 and The Netherlands)
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