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The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

A wide-ranging series of policy and partner program changes instituted this month by North American Channel Chief Rob Cato (pictured) are designed to get the hardware maker back on track to recording consistent market share gains.

Based on technology from threat monitoring and management vendor Trusted Metrics, which SolarWinds has purchased, the new system offers multitenant intrusion detection, log management, threat intelligence, and more in one subscription-priced package.

CloudJumper’s Cloud Workspace and Streaming App Services products are now go-to options for The 20’s member MSPs.

The new patch management, threat security, and endpoint detection and response offerings are the latest additions to the vendor’s MSP Security Suite.

The acquisition is intended to expand threat detection and response to AT&T Business customers.

Called MSP Institute and composed of webinars, videos, and podcasts, the new educational resource provides advice and training on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and technical topics.

Held last week in Hershey, Pa., the distributor’s Mid-Atlantic Summer Technology Show offered nearly 1,000 attendees a host of meet, greet, and learning opportunities.

Chat users can now leverage remote support sessions.

As the distributor transforms itself to meet the demands of a new era in IT, it’s urgently encouraging its partners to do the same. Last week’s Channel Link conference provided the latest venue for those efforts.