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The SaaS-based email encryption vendor makes giving back to the community part of its core values.

Breakfast! It’s the most important meal of the day. Especially if you’re Matt and Rich, and you’ve got plenty of hot IT topics to discuss with guest host Bob Nitrio, CEO of Ranvest Associates. Items on the menu today include HPE’s compact new micro-server for SMBs, Nerdio’s new Windows Virtual Desktop deployment and administration system, WatchGuard’s acquisition of Panda Security, and Axcient’s new backup protection technology.

With an expanded schedule of cities for 2020, ChannelPro has launched its “Game Theory” tour to help MSPs, IT consultants, VARs, and integrators win big in business.

The vendor’s first foray beyond endpoint security, the three new systems provide consolidated threat monitoring for a widely used cloud productivity suite that lacks multitenant management tools.

The IoT Security Services Association holds the first of six one-day Cyber Security Expos in Houston, gathering IT service providers and security experts for networking and education.

Drafting strategic business plans and generating leads were also on the agenda at the first of this year’s four quarterly conferences for VARs and MSPs.

An addition to the vendor’s existing backup solution for workstations, servers, and business documents, the new system offers unlimited protection for data in Exchange Online, OneDrive, and SharePoint for a flat $1.50 per user per month.

Members of the vendor’s MSP Connect partner program can now purchase Sophos Managed Threat Response and Sophos Cloud Optix at pay-as-you-go rates that align with recurring revenue cash flow models.

According to Senior Vice President of North American Sales Marty Bauerlein (pictured), being acquired by private equity will free Tech Data to pursue next-generation markets without answering to Wall Street’s quarterly scrutiny and short-term thinking.

The $1.42 billion deal is designed to help OpenText boost cloud revenue, add recurring revenue, deepen its security solution portfolio, and expand beyond an enterprise-heavy customer base into the SMB and “prosumer” markets.