Managed Services

Channel Communities

Netrio brings Bobby Hall on board to drive partner growth and expand Netrio Go-To-Market strategy

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Netrio brings Bobby Hall on board to drive partner growth and expand Netrio Go-To-Market strategy
Hall will report directly to Mike Cromwell, Chief Revenue Officer at Netrio, but the two of them will work together to make Netrio’s channel strategy as effective as possible.

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Artificial Intelligence

Barracuda launches Barracuda Assistant to expand BarracudaONE platform

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda launches Barracuda Assistant to expand BarracudaONE platform
The new Barracuda Assistant improves security operations to make it much easier for both MSPs and end user customers to strengthen cyber resilience, easily navigate threats and drive productivity and ROI.

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Artificial Intelligence

MSP-centric Guardz partners with  Check Point to embed their Harmony Email into the Guardz unified security platform

November 5, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on MSP-centric Guardz partners with  Check Point to embed their Harmony Email into the Guardz unified security platform
The partnership enhances Guardz’s AI-native, unified cybersecurity platform with Check Point’s patented, inline API-based email protection engine, in order to provide MSPs with the industry’s most advanced email security solutions to improve operational efficiency.

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik makes SaaS management available through Pax8
The availability of Auvik SaaS management, following the initial availability of Auvik Network Management (ANM) on the Pax8 Marketplace in 2024, marks a significant milestone as the first SaaS management platform available on Pax8 with shadow IT and shadow AI discovery capabilities.

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Artificial Intelligence

Flamingo targets MSP  market with AI-powered open source platform

November 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Flamingo targets MSP  market with AI-powered open source platform
Flamingo emerges from stealth  and at launch had already signed up over 1,000 MSPs on their waitlist, with over 150 early adopters from the Slack community actively involved in testing.

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Distribution

Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions
While Halcyon has worked with Carahsoft in the public sector, and has had distribution relationships in EMEA and APJ, this deal with Climb is their first in North American that handles the enterprise, commercial or SMB areas in North America.

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Backup

Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Jan Ursi lays out global partner strategy for Keepit
Jan Ursi takes over as channels leader at Danish SaaS data and backup company Keepit, where he outlined his strategy for driving the company  forward.

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Artificial Intelligence

NinjaOne places automated endpoint management platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

October 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NinjaOne places automated endpoint management platform in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to NinjaOne’s automated endpoint management platform to take advantage of the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

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Artificial Intelligence

Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation

October 28, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation
Recovery Point Systems, which makes cyber resiliency and business continuity solutions, has announced a major enhancement to its Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) solution with the addition of AI-powered Backup Validation. This new capability enables organizations to verify the integrity of their backup images before initiating recovery, which provides a higher level of assurance that restoration will be clean, secure, and operational following a cyberattack.

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Channel Communities

TD SYNNEX partners with IBM Cloudability to empower partners with cloud financial management

October 27, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on TD SYNNEX partners with IBM Cloudability to empower partners with cloud financial management
Distributor TD SYNNEX has commenced a TD SYNNEX Global FinOps Practice powered by IBM Cloudability, which is targeted . The practice is geared at helping partners build their own practice with the assistance of Cloudability.

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