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New Majority Owner to Help WatchGuard Accelerate Move Into XDR, MDR, and SASE
Fresh equity from Vector Capital will enable the security vendor to speed progress on its product roadmap, make more vendor acquisitions, and provide more resources to its MSP partners, according to CEO Prakash Panjwani (pictured).
Hardware Maker Eaton Sees Strategic Power in Software
At its 2022 partner conference this week, the power vendor called management software an increasingly critical ingredient in hardware deals, and outlined forthcoming plans to roll all of its management tools together into a single, unified platform.
Datto Ships New SIRIS Series and Updated Cloud Continuity Solution for PCs
The new BDR appliances are designed to improve performance, reliability, and simplicity, Datto says. The Cloud Continuity for PCs enhancements enable faster, more reliable bare metal restores and add protection for more than just the OS drive.
Eaton Says Tripp Lite Portfolio Offers “Massive Opportunity” to Partners
At the vendor’s partner conference in Fort Lauderdale, executives like Steve Loeb (pictured) discussed the financial and other benefits of selling Tripp Lite peripherals alongside UPS, PDU, and other power products.
Fortinet, Ingram Micro, and Masergy Collaborate on Managed SD-WAN Solution
The new offering, which combines hardware and software from Fortinet with outsourced management by Masergy and distribution through Ingram Micro, is designed to help channel pros with limited in-house expertise bring SD-WAN services to SMB customers.
Dell Introduces Three New Laptops
Like other notebooks announced in recent weeks, the new 2-in-1 and workstations aim to balance portability and power for work-from-anywhere employees.
Sectigo Sees More than Security in SSL Certificates
It sees revenue for itself and its partners as well, in both certificate lifecycle management and related web security fields.
Sophos Buys Multi-Vendor Security Alert Vendor SOC.OS
The deal aims to help the vendor’s Managed Threat Response and extended detection and response offerings collect data from a broader range of sources and act on it more effectively. It was announced a day after updates to the Sophos Firewall rolled out.
ChannelPro Weekly Podcast: Episode #222 – Who You Gonna Call?
Ransomware just struck your client. Our suggestion? Do NOT place your first call to Ghostbusters. To find out who you should call, listen to this week’s episode, in which Matt, Rich, and guest host Ben Pearce, of ACP Technologies, discuss the news from the 2022 Robin Robins IT Sales and Marketing Boot Camp event, the new incident response service from ConnectWise, and the secrets to generating big financial results with small managed services teams.
ConnectWise Introduces Incident Response Service
Available on demand or under retainer, the new offering is designed to help MSPs without security experts of their own on staff overcome breaches faster and more effectively.