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Avast executive Glenn Taylor (pictured) will replace Fred Gerritse, but mostly leave the latter’s turnaround plan intact. Consolidating the newly unified company’s overlapping security portfolios integrating its security and RMM products will be top early priorities.

Scheduled for the end of October, the departure will occur nearly five months after SolarWinds acquired LOGICnow, where Forbes was general manager, and is one element of a larger boardroom shakeup.

New survey results suggest that economic and political uncertainty will keep most organizations from shelling out in bigger amounts for anything except cloud solutions next year.

Under an alliance announced yesterday, Atera customers can now deploy Webroot software on client devices with a single click and receive automated alerts through their RMM console.

Through the end of the year, channel pros who fill technical and sales positions through VAR Staffing can pay the placement fee in 6 monthly installments on a same-as-cash basis.

Available free for a limited time, the system is designed to boost sales of the company’s Office 365 security and data protection suite by exposing ransomware and advanced persistent threats hidden in corporate mailboxes.

Named Autotask Endpoint Backup, the system is the latest step in a long-term campaign to construct an end-to-end suite of tightly integrated and heavily automated managed services solutions.

Called Content.ly, the new system lets channel pros and businesses administer content in Office 365, Dropbox, Box, and other popular content repositories through a single interface.

The new alliance will embed Cisco solutions directly within Salesforce sales, IoT, and customer service applications.

The new offering’s primary initial use case is helping businesses migrate to Office 365 more easily by synchronizing their on-premises Microsoft Active Directory with Microsoft Azure Active Directory.