In The Channel

Inside Check Point’s three-acquisition bet on AI security and the MSP market

Check Point has acquired three companies simultaneously as part of a deliberate four-pillar platform strategy. CSO Roi Karo and Canadian channel leader Angelo Valentini explain what the acquisitions of Cyclops, Cyata, and Rotate mean for MSPs, how the “open garden” platform approach works in multi-vendor environments, and why the window to prepare for AI-driven threats is closing faster than most partners think.

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ICYMI: Ingram Micro bets big on agentic AI, memory pricing pain deepens, and the channel gets mental health community

Ingram Micro closes fiscal 2025 with $52.6 billion in revenue and debuts the “AgenTeq” brand for its agentic AI play. The memory pricing crisis gets worse, with Dell compressing discounting and HP reporting costs doubled in a single quarter. MSP Well launches as the channel’s first dedicated mental health community. And ServiceNow claims an AI agent is resolving 90% of its own IT tickets.

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Artificial Intelligence

Shadow AI is an identity problem, and your employees already created it

Employees are spinning up AI agents and handing them broad access to corporate systems – often without security teams knowing. Okta VP of Product Jack Hirsch explains why identity, not endpoints, is the key to getting ahead of shadow AI, and where the opportunity lies for Canadian solution providers.

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ICYMI: Cisco rewrites partner pricing rules as component shortages bite

Cisco now reserves the right to cancel compute orders and adjust pricing between order and ship date. Lenovo is warning of March price hikes. And WD says its entire 2026 hard drive production is spoken for. Here’s what it all means for your quoting strategy. Plus: Pure Storage becomes Everpure, WatchGuard targets the enterprise-MSP gap, and AWS says AI is accelerating real-world attacks.

Managed Services
Distribution
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In Case You Missed Feb. 23, 2026: Microsoft AI Cloud partner benefits, partner program updates from Palo Alto and monday.com

Microsoft ramps up AI Cloud partner perks, Palo Alto refines NextWave for security services, monday.com launches AI-driven partner marketplace, and Rocket Software reveals IT leaders’ top data worries — all in this week’s channel news roundup.

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