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The managed services co-op sees a path to becoming a multibillion-dollar behemoth that private equity firms will line up to buy.

Following a drop during its fiscal Q2, the hardware giant saw partner revenue grow 1% worldwide and 4% in North America in Q3. Now it’s counting on the recently introduced PowerStore portfolio to help it turn around its still struggling midrange storage business.

HCI from MSFT, AWS backup from Veeam, Salesforce and ServiceNow support from TeamViewer, and a new Olympic sport for people who can spin on their head are a few of the stories we really meant to bring your way earlier this week.

Integration services, endpoint managed services, and project-specific services have been rolling out this year and will continue arriving in 2021, according to Jason Bystrak (pictured), who leads the new venture along with the distributor’s cloud business.

Amid unending uncertainty, the security vendor is keeping surprises in requirements, rewards, and profits to a minimum.

The company showcased those and other enhancements yesterday during its online MSP Technology Day event.

Here’s the terrible news. For section one of this two part series, we couldn’t discover 30 nerds younger than 30 in our SMB technology network. For this case, a nerd is a Managed Services Provider, specialist or architect—the real deal! Also, the news deteriorates—with the above persona definition, we were unable to discover at least one ladies in technology who fit our standards. What’s happening with that?

This year’s rush to online everything has channel pros coping with cloud management headaches. Here’s how to conquer them.

Sudhakar Ramakrishna (pictured) will replace Kevin Thompson as president and CEO of SolarWinds next month. The federal paperwork positions the company for a spin-off of SolarWinds MSP as a separate company, a move still under consideration.

Alain Monié (pictured) will remain the distributor’s CEO following the $7.2 billion transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2021.