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Citrix Taps Mark Palomba to Lead its Global Partner Program

Citrix Systems has named Mark Palomba to head the company’s global channels organization. Citrix Taps Mark Palomba to Lead its Global Partner Program Palomba, who joined Citrix last year as COO for sales and services, was already spending part of his time working closely with partners following the departure of Bronwyn Hastings, who previously led…

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Nerdio Now Manages More Than 1 Million VDI Users in Azure

Cloud virtual desktop provider Nerdio, which hosts its VDI service in Azure, now manages more than 1 Million Windows users. According to Nerdio’s founder and CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy, who announced the stat last week, the rapid growth of its service validates the viability of Azure Virtual Desktop as well as the new Windows 365 service….

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Distributors Synnex and Tech Data Complete Merger, Combined Company is Now TD Synnex

IT distributor Synnex last week completed its acquisition of Tech Data in a deal valued at $8.3 billion. Rich Hume, who had served as chief executive at Tech Data, is now CEO of the newly combined company, now called TD Synnex. The deal is poised to create a much more powerful IT distributor with substantially…

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Contact Center Provider NICE Joins Microsoft’s Business Apps ISV Connect Program

Contact Center Provider NICE Joins Microsoft’s Business Apps ISV Connect Program NICE, among the leading contact center platform providers, this week said it has joined Microsoft’s Business Applications ISV Connect. The program is designed to let partners build and bring line of business applications to market on Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. Microsoft’s Business…

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B2B Hardware and Software Revenues through Channel Rose in First Half of 2021

B2B Hardware and Software Revenues through Channel Rose in First Half of 2021 Sales of hardware and software through the channel rose 9% in the first six months of this year, compared with the same period in 2020, according to market research firm NPD Group. The latest metric, published this week, indicates that revenues have…

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Microsoft Extends its Services Partnership with EY

Microsoft Extends its Services Partnership with EY Less than a year after the formation of the EY Microsoft Services Group, both companies are extending the partnership for five years. The group created by the accounting, business, and technology services provider this week said they are boosting their collaboration to build new solutions and platforms that…

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AWS Picks Up Share, Aims to Expand Microsoft Workload Migrations

AWS Picks Up Share, Aims to Expand Microsoft Workload Migrations While Microsoft and Google have eaten into AWS share of the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market in recent quarters, Amazon bounced back in Q2. According to a report by Synergy Research Group, AWS now has a 33% of the cloud services market, based on the…

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Acronis Adds File Sync and Sharing Tool for MSPs

Kaseya Denies Paying Ransom for Key that Unlocks Data Encrypted by REvil Attack Plagued by ransomware attacks that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Kaseya’s VSA remote monitoring and management (RMM) system used by managed services providers (MSPs), the company now has a tool to decrypt data locked by the attackers known as REvil. Kaseya’s Incident Response…

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Survey Reveals Most MSPs Now Offer Managed Security Services

Nearly all MSPs now offer managed security services, according to Datto’s Global State of the MSP Report released Thursday. The remote monitoring and management (RMM) and data protection provider surveyed 1,800 MSPs for the report. According to the survey’s findings, 99% now provide managed security services, 50% have helped customers move more than half of…

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Microsoft Gave Its Partners an Earful at Annual Inspire Conference

It was a big week for the Microsoft ecosystem as the company held its annual Inspire partner conference. Like last year, Inspire was a 2-day virtual event because of the pandemic. But the absence of the traditional weeklong live gathering did not stop Microsoft from doling out the news that will impact much of the…

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