5 Channel Partner Program and MSP News Updates: 21 May 2021 -

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A. What’s Brewing Today: Technology News

1. Help Wanted - MSP Software: Kaseya plans to hire 500 employees for its Miami, Florida, office by the end of 2022, the company said in a prepared statement. The MSP software provider is seeking to fill technical, sales and marketing roles. Moreover, the company is seeking to hire cybersecurity analysts as part of a new managed security operations center (SOC) build-out.

2. Channel Chief: Telstra has named Mikoto Anzai as director of partners and alliances. She reports into Przemek Zajic, Telstra Americas VP for strategy, operations and partnerships, and will play a key part of the company’s enterprise and technology go-to-market sales approach.

3. Microsoft 365 Partner Momentum: AvePoint, a major Microsoft 365 partner, announced first quarter 2021 financial results. Total revenue was $38.8 million, up 19 percent vs. Q1 of 2020.

4. Data Protection: StorageCraft, an Arcserve company, has released upgrades to ShadowXafe and OneXafe Solo, the company's flagship data and systems backup and recovery software, and its plug-and-protect backup and recovery appliance. Both solutions "now support multi-cloud environments with enhanced security features to give customers improved flexibility, performance, economics, and assuredness from their cloud and hybrid data backup protection and recovery investments," StorageCraft says.

5. Funding - Cloud Storage: Wasabi, a low-cost alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), has raised $25 million in additional funding. The move expands Wasabi's Series C round to $137 million. The additional funding was led by Prosperity7 Ventures. Also, Western Digital Capital, the investment arm of storage device manufacturer Western Digital, participated in the round.