News and Partner Program Updates
SonicWall introduces SonicSentry MXDR to lead the headlines for this week. Ready for a quick rundown of this week’s MSP news and partner program updates? Scroll on down!
SonicWall Furthers its Commitment to Empowering MSPs by Introducing SonicSentry MXDR
SonicSentry MXDR Empowers MSPs of all Sizes to Protect their Customers Across the Entire Attack Surface with Enterprise-Grade Security including CrowdStrike Falcon Platform, Delivering Simplicity and Cost-Effectiveness
Key quote from the news release:
“MSPs face mounting challenges – managing complex and oftentimes subpar – security stacks, countering evolving threats, and securing SMBs with limited resources. Through our SonicWall partnership, we’re simplifying security, enhancing threat protection, and enabling MSPs to focus on what matters most — keeping their customers secure and helping SMBs thrive in an increasingly digital world.” — Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike
Wildix Expands Executive Team to Drive AI-Powered UCaaS Innovation and Accelerate Global Growth
New Americas Channel Lead to Drive Partner Growth in the Fastest-Growing Communications Market
Key quote from the news release:
“Wildix has always been driven by innovation — but it’s strong leadership that turns innovation into real results. With these appointments, we’re expanding the leadership behind our global success, strengthening expertise in technology, people and channel growth to help our partners and their customers lead in a market that never stands still.”” — Steve Osler, CEO, Wildix
>>> Expanded ChannelPro coverage: Dynabook’s Portégé Z40L-N is Worth a Look: Lightweight, Copilot+, and a User Replaceable Battery
Dynabook Unveils Premium Copilot+PC Laptop with Alloy Chassis Weighing Under 1kg
With a durable MIL-SPEC alloy chassis and user-serviceable battery, the 14-inch Portégé Z40L-N with Copilot+ fosters AI-boosted productivity and fortifies data with powerful and convenient security
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Key info from the news release:
Weighing under 1kg1, the Z40L-N integrates the latest Intel® Core™ Ultra processors (Series 2) with four-times more powerful Neural Processing Unit (NPU)2 for AI acceleration, Wi-Fi 7, Intel® Arc™ Graphics, and vibrant 14-inch 16:10 display all within a highly durable MIL-SPEC magnesium alloy chassis.
As a Copilot+PC laptop, the Portégé Z40L-N empowers business professionals with a suite of AI enhanced features designed to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and improve efficiency.
The new Portégé Z40L-N starts at $1,699 and will be available at the end of the month in EZ-Buy configurations from authorized Dynabook partners.
Enterprise Value Partners Launches to Redefine M&A Integration Success
The company’s comprehensive suite of M&A solutions is designed to make even the most complex integrations manageable, predictable, and efficient.
Co-founded by industry veterans Mike Williams and Chris Claudio, and strengthened by partners Vivian Sayward and Ann Haehn, EVP is at the forefront of transforming M&A integration, leveraging technology-driven platforms that streamline complex processes and accelerate strategic alignment.
Key quote from the news release:
“We’re not your typical integration consulting firm. As product innovators, we’ve developed customizable playbooks, real-time diagnostic tools, and self-service capabilities to ensure our clients have everything they need for a successful integration at their fingertips.” — Mike Williams, co-founder and CEO, EVP
ArmorPoint Announces Partnership with TD SYNNEX
Partnership to offer TD SYNNEX’s global customer network with comprehensive cybersecurity support
Key quote from the news release:
“As cyberattacks become more frequent and sophisticated across virtually every industry, the demand for cybersecurity solutions and support is at an all time high. We’re ecstatic to partner with TD SYNNEX, one of the largest technology distributors worldwide, to equip customers with critical cybersecurity and cyber attack prevention.” — David Trapp, CEO, ArmorPoint
Cisco expands Agile Services Networking with two new innovations
Combined, these solutions enable visibility from home- and mobile-connected users through to service provider core networks and off-net cloud-delivered services.
From the news release, these include:
- ThousandEyes Connected Devices: Extends the power of the Cisco ThousandEyes platform to service providers with enhanced visibility across subscriber experiences, from home to off-network services. Now, with insight into last-mile network performance, service providers can mitigate issues before users are impacted and compete on experience, not just speed.
- Provider Connectivity Assurance: New AI-powered ‘User Experience’ capability enhances mobile service provider network performance. With real-time traffic insights and predictive demand intelligence, service providers can enhance user experience, reduce congestion, maximize speed, and dynamically adjust spectrum usage.
Rapid7 Launches New Global PACT Partner Program
Reimagined partner program unifies the Rapid7 channel ecosystem to inspire and support partner growth in 2025 and beyond
Key elements of the program include:
- Modernized Partner Portal: Rapid7’s modernized and expanded Partner Portal offers partners deeper engagement and seamless, real-time collaboration with Rapid7 via a redesigned interface that provides training and automation to support the entire customer lifecycle. From self-service quote access and renewal dashboards, to learning paths aligned to specific points in the sales process and customer lifecycle.
- Tailored Engagement Programs and Specializations: Rapid7’s unified platform seamlessly combines proactive and reactive cyber risk management solutions so they can be efficiently scaled and customized to meet customer requirements. Partners can also benefit from two new PACT specializations, MSSP Specialization and Service Delivery Specialization, for an enhanced suite of tech resources and operational efficiencies with simplified pricing models launching later this year.
- All-New Partner Training Academy: The new Partner Training Academy equips partners with practical skills and technical knowledge to enhance customer value. With a mission to elevate partners’ confidence in positioning solutions to match customer needs, the Partner Academy offers a variety of competency-based courses and certifications. Courses are tailored to the sales and pre-sales technical roles, as well as specialized curriculum, to enable partners to deliver their own post-sales services.
Arctic Wolf Threat Report: 96 Percent of Ransomware Cases Included Data Theft as Cybercriminals Double Down on Extortion
New research reveals evolving threat tactics, the rising role of business email compromise, and the importance of proactive security measures.
Key findings of the report include:
- Steal first, extort second. As organizations improve their ability to recover from ransomware, cybercriminals have turned to data exfiltration to increase leverage—96% of ransomware cases analyzed included data theft.
- The cybercrime trifecta. Three types of cybersecurity incidents account for 95% of all incident response (IR) cases: ransomware 44%, business email compromise (BEC) 27%, and intrusions 24%.
- Threat actors follow the money. BEC continues to grow as a preferred tactic, particularly in the finance and insurance sector, where it accounted for 53% of IR cases—making it the only industry where BEC outpaced ransomware.
- Patch or pay. In 76% of intrusion cases, attackers exploited just 10 specific vulnerabilities—none of which were zero-days, and most linked to remote access tools and externally facing services. This reinforces the need for proactive patch management.
Auvik’s 2025 IT Trends Report Highlights the Rise of the IT Generalist as Talent Gap Approaches its Peak
78% of IT professionals report work stressors prevent them from upskilling; integrating AI and automation seen as critical to attracting, supporting, and retaining IT talent
This year’s survey – titled “Why IT is long on challenges but short on time,” reveals that stress and burnout are approaching all-time highs amidst the Baby Boomer retirement era, underscoring the critical need for AI and automation solutions and giving rise to the IT generalist.
Other key findings of the report include:
- IT professionals are still largely supporting remote and hybrid formats – 85% of IT professionals support remote workers at least part of the time, with 63% supporting remote workers 50% of the time or more.
- MSPs, who typically manage the most mixed-vendor environments, experience the most tool sprawl, with nearly 50% reporting 10 or more network tools in use.
- Beyond tool sprawl, cost (48% of respondents) and complexity (45% of respondents) were other common problems IT professionals report regarding their network tool stack. 37% also mentioned lack of integration amongst their tool stack.
SolarWinds Acquires Squadcast, Unifying Observability and Incident Response
SolarWinds Empowers IT Teams With AI-Driven Hybrid Cloud Management Portfolio, Operational Resilience, Cost Efficiency, and Automation
Key quote from the news release:
“Squadcast is excited to join forces with SolarWinds to help customers make their worlds more reliable. By optimizing incident response with AI, customers reduce noise, enhance efficiency, and resolve incidents faster—so they can focus on what truly matters.” — Amiya Adwitiya, founder and CEO, Squadcast
Rubrik’s New Capabilities Set to Transform Cyber Resilience Across Cloud, Hypervisor and SaaS Platforms
Powerful new cyber resilience capabilities for faster operational recovery from cyber incidents, including machine-learning detection, orchestrated recovery, and Turbo Threat Hunting.
Key quote from the news release:
“Cyber criminals won’t stop innovating, and neither will we. Our utmost priority is the security, safety, and appropriate accessibility of our customer’s data, regardless of where the data lives. We are seamlessly integrating new technologies across the world’s major cloud platforms, SaaS offerings, and on-premises so our customers can better detect compromised data, enhance the speed of identifying affected data, and accelerate the discovery of clean entry points.” — Arvind Nithrakashyap, chief technology officer and co-founder, Rubrik
N-able’s Second Annual MSP Horizons Report Shows Significant Growth Opportunity for Global MSPs with Cybersecurity Leading the Way
Research highlights key disruptive trends including the buildout of true cyber resilience, as well as compliance, co-managed, and AI
Key findings from the report include:
- Growth outlook overwhelmingly positive for MSPs
- 59% of MSP respondents expect to grow overall revenue by 20% or more in 2025.
- Almost 40% of respondents expect more than 20% managed services profit growth in 2025. Key growth factors include a bigger focus on endpoint, powerful cybersecurity and compliance tailwinds, co-managed expansion, and automation levers—including AI.
- The top challenges to growth include new customer acquisition and upskilling staff.
- Cybersecurity force factor continues to strengthen
- Cybersecurity managed services sales growth is expected by 90% of respondents in 2025, up from 80% in the previous year’s report.
- Security-related services represent the top four most important contributors to managed services revenue over the next three years, with third-party MDR topping the list of new services MSPs are planning to add.
- The most in demand future managed backup and disaster recovery services are SaaS application backup (53%) and AI-powered backup and recovery (51%).
- Cyberthreat complexities, compliance requirements, and data breach liability concerns by partners and customers top the list for fueling cybersecurity growth.
ConnectWise Elevates Community Focus with New Leadership and Enhanced Resources
Peter Kujawa to lead newly consolidated Partner Communities org, bringing ConnectWise’s MSP community resources under one umbrella
Key quote from the news release:
“Community has long been a key differentiator for ConnectWise. By combining Service Leadership, IT Nation, and our partner councils into a single business unit, we are formalizing our commitment to the success of the IT solution provider community through industry leading events, content, and peer groups. Additionally, MSP feedback is at the heart of our product roadmap and overall vision.” — Manny Rivelo, CEO, ConnectWise
VDURA Launches All-Flash NVMe V5000 to Power AI Factories and GPU Clouds with Unmatched Performance, Scale, and Reliability
Radium Selects VDURA to Drive Next-Generation AI Infrastructure with Seamless Scalability and Ease of Use
Key features from the news release:
- Seamless AI Storage Expansion – Scale effortlessly as GPU clusters grow, with no downtime or overprovisioning.
- AI Checkpoint Optimization – Eliminates write bottlenecks that slow AI training.
- Data Center Efficiency – 1.5PB+ per U, reducing power, cooling, and footprint costs.
- RDMA Acceleration – Architected for NVIDIA GPU Direct and RDMA, with optimizations rolling out later this year.
GoTo Introduces New AI, Translation and Security Innovations to Streamline Enterprise IT and Customer Support with LogMeIn Rescue
New capabilities automate workflows, enhance cybersecurity, and ensure seamless real-time translation capabilities for globally distributed teams and customers
Key quote from the news release:
“With our latest AI, security, and translation innovations in LogMeIn Rescue, we are redefining how enterprises and Global System Integrators provide IT and customer support. By integrating advanced AI-driven automation and diagnostics, enhanced security protections, and real-time translation capabilities into LogMeIn Rescue, we are empowering support teams to not only work smarter and faster but also to deliver exceptional service with confidence and precision – no matter where their teams and customers are located” — Joseph George, general manager of IT, GoTo
Precisely Launches Data Link, Enabling Seamless Integration of Datasets from Leading Data Providers
Data Link partners, including Overture Maps Foundation, GeoX Analytics, and Regrid, pre-link data to streamline access, integration, and ongoing management of location datasets
The new Data Link program transforms the traditionally complex and time-consuming process of mapping disparate third-party datasets into a seamless customer experience. Organizations no longer need to stitch together data from multiple vendors, navigate complex integrations, or evaluate dozens of disconnected datasets.
Data Link enables businesses to, according to the news release:
- Simplify Dataset Integration: Access complementary datasets from leading providers that are pre-linked via unique identifier systems reducing the time and expertise needed to source, integrate, test, and validate data.
- Enhance Cost Efficiency: Reduce the expense, complexity, and overhead associated with managing datasets from multiple providers that vary in format, content, and ID standards.
- Accelerate Time-to-Value: Deliver faster business results by dramatically reducing the time required for data professionals to procure, integrate, and reconcile disparate acquired datasets and leverage them for critical use cases.
Getac’s Next Generation B360 and B360 Pro Combine Powerful AI-Ready Technology with Fully Rugged Reliability for Exceptional Versatility and Performance
Both laptops offer an extensive range of industry-specific configurations and customization, allowing customers to tailor devices to their exact needs
The next generation B360 and B360 Pro are both available in a range of industry-specific configurations and can be further tailored with bespoke customization options* spanning hardware, software, accessories and service. As a result, customers can ensure their device specifications match intended use cases, even when only ordering in small batches. Key industry examples from the news release include:
- Optimal situational awareness for public safety professionals
Situational awareness is paramount for public safety professionals such as police patrol units, where officers rely on Getac rugged devices for secure, fast data access and real-time intelligence updates while in the field. Public safety organizations can customize their next generation B360 devices with a range of specific software, hardware, accessory and service options* to fully optimise their situational awareness capabilities. - Highly efficient mobile GIS, surveying and mapping for utilities professionals
The next generation B360 is ideally suited to mobile GIS, surveying and mapping tasks in remote locations and/or adverse weather conditions, with the inclusion of MIL-STD-810H, MIL-STD-461G, and IP66 certifications, as well as 6ft drop resistance. - Secure, reliable command and control for defense professionals
In the defense industry, commanders rely on Getac rugged devices for real-time intelligence, military data integration, and secure communications to drive mission critical decisions and counter threats.
New Addigy Assist Makes Mac Onboarding Simple, Fast, and Hassle-Free
Addigy transforms Mac setup into a seamless, transparent, highly scalable experience for MSPs, IT teams, and end-users
Key quote from the news release:
“Addigy has always been focused on creating solutions that make Apple device management simple and familiar for everyone. With Addigy Assist, not only do we streamline Mac setups but also deliver an experience that feels like it was built by Apple. Our Apple-native UI ensures end users feel at ease while MSPs and IT teams gain an elegant, highly effective tool” — Jason Dettbarn, founder and CEO, Addigy
