Things We Talk About:

Loggly Survey Sees MSP Momentum

Arcserve Partners with Sophos

Liongard Extends Monitoring Service for MSPs

Cumulus Networks Founder Joins AWS?

Red Hat Launches Ansible Platform

Cloudera Unfurls Cloud Services

MemSQL Launches Cloud Service

SAP Doubles Down on Machine Learning

Chef Cancels ICE Contract

Things We Talk About:

Kubernetes 1.16 Arrives

Google Touts Anthos Cloud

Eclipse Foundation Ties Kubernetes to Java

Law Firm Finds Little GDPR Compliance

Barracuda Adds Cybersecurity Tools to MSP Platform

GitLab Raises $268M for DevOps Platform

Oracle Adds Free Cloud Tier

New Relic Extends Monitoring Platform

Gartner Lifts Veil on IT Purchasing Patterns

Today we chat with Karl Fahrbach, chief partner officer for SAP, about why the partner experience is now so critical to one of the largest software vendors in the world.

Things We Talk About:

Cisco Broadly Embraces Ansible

IBM Extends Mainframe Encryption Everywhere

Kaseya Pour $10M into Compliance for MSPs

Lacework Picks Up $42M for Container Security

Google Weds Apache Spark to Kubernetes

Cloud Foundry Foundation Touts Progress

Are Microservices Too Hard?

Things We Talk About:

Ingram Micro Partners with CoreKinect on IoT

BitSight Publishes Cybersecurity Spending Report

SolarWinds MSP Spotlights MSP Customer Churn Issues

Commvault Acquires Hedvig

CollabNet VersionOne Gets Acquired by VC Firm

Splunk Acquires Omnition

Atlassian Looks to the Cloud

ServiceNow Goes Mobile

IBM Says 120M Workers Will Need to Be Retrained

Things We Talk About:

ConnectWise Launches Cybersecurity Community for MSPs

Google Issues iPhone Warning

AFTRR Makes Refurbishing Case

Accenture Acquires Fairway Technologies

VMware Move into Kubernetes Management

Dell Embraces Kubernetes

CNCF Publishes Kubernetes Report

Hurricane Dorian Threatens Southeast

IT Staff Shortage Crisis in the Channel

Things We Talk About:

VMware Acquires Carbon Black

VMware Acquires Pivotal Software

VMware Updates Cloud Channel Program

Puppet Automates Cybersecurity Remediation

Tech Data Automates Purchasing Process

Rancher Labs Expands Channel Program

Splunk Acquires SignalFx

SecurityScorecard Names Channel Chief

HP, Inc. to Get New CEO

IBM Shifts POWER to Linux Foundation

Citrix Aligns with Red Hat on Kubernetes

Rash of Ransomware Creates Managed Service Opportunities

Things We Talk About:

AT&T Partners with Dell Technologies

Barracuda Networks Acquires InfiSecure Technologies

Exclusive Networks Signs Aerohive Networks

Intermedia Acquires Telax

Virtual Instruments Acquires Metricly

NetAlly Spins Out of NETSCOUT

Ziff-Davis Acquires Spiceworks

CloudBees Tightens Alliance with Google

AttackIQ Survey Questions Cybersecurity ROI

Things We Talk About

Comptia Channelcon 2019 Conference Wraps

Broadcom by Symantec Enterprise Unit

Malwarebytes Launches Cybersecurity Service

Axcient Adds Marketing Portal for MSPs

Mesosphere Becomes D2iQ

VMware Accelerates Cloud Migrations

Twilio Joins RapidAPI Marketplace

Flexera Report Exposes Software Licensing Mess

Things We Talk About:

Capital One Breach

Cisco Whistleblower Payoff

IBM Increase Red Hat Channel Expertise

Dynatrace IPO Soars

Google Adds Cloud Support for VMware

Naveego Identifies Data Quality Issues in Minutes

CloudBees Unveils Curated Version of Jenkins X

Barracuda Networks Survey Shows Email Insecurity