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The distribution heavyweight is hiring hundreds of specialists and enhancing its online marketplace in a bid to help partners capitalize on surging cloud demand, according to global cloud channel sales leader Victor Baez (pictured).

Called Microsoft Viva and part of the Microsoft 365 productivity suite, the new system is designed to keep remote employees engaged and productive by centralizing information about colleagues, training, wellbeing, and corporate knowledge.

Due to ship next month, version 7.0 of the underlying operating system that powers the Fortinet Security Fabric contains features designed to boost the security and performance of cloud-based applications and work-from-home users.

The changes include new sales incentives and VMware licensing options, a refreshed Online Solution Configurator and consolidated incentives center, and efforts aimed at promoting additional subscription-based selling.

The new system is designed to help Cloud Access Security Broker developers identify, classify, and control access to cloud applications more completely and accurately.

The new system, which joins existing data protection products for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, rounds out Veeam’s support for the three leading hyperscale cloud environments.

The revised program’s requirements and benefit structure are designed to help traditional resellers become recurring revenue service providers.

The acquisition will help Service Leadership deliver benchmarking metrics and growth advice to more MSPs, according to CEO Paul Dippell (pictured), while enabling ConnectWise to build widely respected data and tools into its software.

Speakers at the vendor’s second annual Security Summit yesterday urged listeners to embrace security frameworks, take full advantage of security features in their business systems, and share the latest threat information with one another.

The former SimplySecure for MSPs is now BeachheadSecure for MSPs in connection with an ongoing effort to turn a tool for deploying and orchestrating encryption and compliance on PCs into an automated threat detection and remediation platform as well.