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The deal brings together two workspace-as-a-service vendors with complementary business models and a long history of collaboration.

Nearly two years into a strategic, partner-focused campaign aimed at increasing sales to mid-market and now businesses as well, the power quality vendor has grown its sales team by 25 percent and re-organized it around a new set of more targeted roles.

According to executives like Herve Tardy (pictured), the power quality vendor had its first million-dollar software revenue quarter last year, and is growing sales of power management applications at a 2x month-over-month rate.

CEO John Lewe (pictured) also tells ChannelPro that he’s accepted an invitation from ConnectWise to attend this year’s IT Nation event and has no plans to participate in the vendor consolidation wave currently sweeping the industry.

VIPRE’s endpoint-heavy product family complements j2’s FuseMail email security unit, says the cloud solution and digital media conglomerate says, which plans to expand the VIPRE footprint in the European Union.

Called Unite and targeted at businesses with up to 100 users, the system includes tightly integrated voice, cloud PBX, collaboration, file storage, and backup features, as well as all-new mobile and desktop apps and an enhanced web portal.

Used for months by the vendor’s Capture Cloud threat intelligence service, the previously secret deep memory inspection technology has already identified hundreds of malware variants sandboxing systems missed, and offers protection from the Meltdown vulnerability.

Designed to help businesses embrace cloud computing without exposing themselves to threats on-premises security solutions can miss, the system is the latest addition to Pax8’s portfolio of Symantec offerings.

Research suggests IT solution providers are upbeat about current market conditions and are starting to embrace high-growth opportunities like security and the Internet of Things

Now in beta testing, the new offerings include the vendor’s first virtual firewalls and first web application firewall, as well as a new API designed to let third-party platforms perform automated firewall configuration and management.