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Our executive editor died peacefully in her sleep. Words, which were her stock in trade, are incapable of expressing how much we’ll miss her.

The well-known channel veteran, who most recently served as vice president of marketing at eFolder Inc., will oversee his new employer’s marketing, pricing, and sales activities, as well as its partner strategy and strategic alliances

It doesn’t exist as a shipping product yet, anyway. An experimental virtual desktop infrastructure system demoed at Datto’s annual North American partner conference this week has attendees buzzing with interest though.

The new MarketNow platform, officially unveiled at the BDR vendor’s DattoCon partner conference this week, is designed to help marketing neophytes design and execute lead generation campaigns.

A new edition of the vendor’s hosted workspace solution allows users to connect natively to a Microsoft Windows desktop without the need for connection brokers or other third-party components.

Called Project Domination and targeted at members of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-retired Online Services Advisor program, the campaign offers up to 90 days of free Office 365 service, plus free support.

Worth up to $830 million, the deal augments SYNNEX’s offerings in the critical security, unified communications, and networking markets.

When fully in place, the enhancements will enable MSPs to reboot hardware at customer sites remotely and manage Datto’s access points, switches, and networking appliances through the same tools they use to administer other devices.

At its annual North American partner event this morning, the BDR vendor unveiled an all-new cloud backup platform, multiple additions to its all-flash SIRIS 3 X appliance family, and a new release of its ALTO small business backup device.

The new 24/7/365 monitoring and management professional services aim to simplify security and data protection.