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SolarWinds MSP To Revoke Digital Certificates For Tools, Issue New Ones As Breach Fallout Continues
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘I think they’re afraid. They’ve got liability, and they don’t know what to say, so everybody’s told to keep their mouth shut. Instead of being focused on the issue at hand, they’re worried about lawsuits,” SolarWinds MSP partner Rich Delany tells CRN.
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Services Provider Lemongrass Launches New Disaster Recovery Offering For SAP Applications
by Rick Whiting
The new Lemongrass Disaster Recovery service combines AWS CloudEndure with the service provider’s own IT assessment and implementation expertise and experience with SAP software.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Dec. 11, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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2nd Watch Partners With Armor To Offer Expanded Managed Security Service
by Rick Whiting
‘Our multi-cloud managed security service goes beyond best practice recommendations and guidance to include implementation, deployment and full management of security devices along with remediation of identified security issues,’ says Chris Garvey, 2ndWatch’s executive vice president of product.
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Ingram Micro-Platinum Equity Deal Is Sign Of Distribution ‘Renaissance’
by Steven Burke
‘With Ingram now owned by Platinum and Tech Data owned by Apollo there is going to be a renaissance in distribution,’ says Martin Wolf, president of martinwolf M&A Advisors. ‘It is good for the channel to have heavyweights (like Platinum and Apollo) between them and the vendors. It is very good news for partners.’
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Datto Adds 1,000 MSP Customers, Even As COVID-Related Churn Hits Base
by O’Ryan Johnson
“There have been some MSPs running right into the eye of the storm and saying change is good. I think just more MSPs have to adopt that to return to previous levels,” Datto CEO Tim Weller told investors.
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Channel M&A Catching Up To Pre-Pandemic Pace
by Joseph Tsidulko
A flurry of recent acquisitions suggests deal-making in the channel is returning to the consolidation frenzy that characterized 2019 as solution providers look to come out the pandemic stronger than before.
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MSP Power Play: Electric Acquires Fellow New York Firm
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We will continue to do services as we did before. But we’ll be doing more services in new areas, such as marketing. We’re too small to have a marketing team, but Electric has a full marketing team and HR (human resources) team. With world-changing events like this pandemic, it’s great to have teams like that supporting us,’ says Larry Velez, Sinu’s chief technology officer and founder.
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Services Provider EVOTEK Expands Process Automation Expertise, Services With Mystic River Acquisition
by Rick Whiting
Twenty-five Mystic River employees, including a number of process automation professionals who previously worked within KPMG’s Process Automation Center of Excellence, will be joining EVOTEK.
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2nd Watch To Expand Managed Optimization Service Through Deal With Spot By NetApp
by Rick Whiting
The strategic service provider will use the Spot by NetApps capabilities to help clients achieve near-continuous optimization of cloud resources and reduce cloud computing costs.
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Datto’s Rob Rae: MSPs Key To Making Work-From-Home ‘Work’ For Customers
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘The work-from-home strategy is something that the MSP can deliver. We can deliver security. We can deliver safety. We can deliver technology. We can deliver connectivity. And we can do it all very quickly and at an affordable monthly fee,’ says Rob Rae, Datto’s senior vice president of business development.
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Datto Board Member Steps Down Before $561M IPO
by O’Ryan Johnson
Vista Equity Partners Co-Founder and President Brian Sheth, who has served on the Datto board since the MSP platform provider was acquired by Vista three years ago, has given up his board seat.
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Leading AWS Partner ClearScale Expands MSP Offerings
by Rick Whiting
Strategic service provider plans to leverage the expertise from its AWS systems development and integration services to add value to its managed services for AWS customers.
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Ahana Launches Cloud-Native Managed Service For Presto
by Rick Whiting
The big data startup also expanded its seed funding with an additional $2.3 million from Lux Capital and GV.
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