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Part of a larger wave of security-related news from the vendor’s IT Nation Explore event, which is taking place online this week, the new offerings are designed to help channel pros meet ever-escalating demand for security services more effectively.

The new offering, which rolls Axcient’s Replibit, BRC, and Fusion systems together into a fully-integrated package, marks a significant milestone in a strategic consolidation process that began three years ago when Axcient and eFolder merged.

Two years after Plantronics bought Polycom, the company now called Poly has combined its channels.

The vendor best known for helping MSPs detect attacker footholds in end user environments has added ransomware and reconnaissance services at no extra charge, and plans to roll out additional solutions without raising prices as threat trends evolve.

Pulseway Patch is designed to serve as an affordable, easy-to-use option for MSPs and IT departments that either don’t have an RMM solution or don’t like the patching tool their RMM solution provides.

Which is why most of you have avoided serious financial damage so far despite a global pandemic and economic crash, says SolarWinds MSP President John Pagliuca (pictured), who sees a bright future ahead for MSPs as well.

The data protection vendor’s new owner, private equity firm Insight Partners, is making investments aimed at capitalizing on that opportunity too, according to company leaders.

Both products debuted at the data protection vendor’s 2020 VeeamON conference, where CTO Danny Allan (pictured) also previewed a forthcoming edition of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 featuring enhanced Teams support.

Sales of client hardware through the channel rose by double digits thanks to spiking demand for work-from-home gear. Sales of storage products, however, dropped by double digits amid declining infrastructure spending.

The distributor plans to make further Salesforce applications available to partners in the future in conjunction with a strategic effort to offer “more as a service,” according to global cloud VP Nimesh Davé (pictured).