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    Google outspends Microsoft in race to expand cloud capacity

    AWS continued to lead hyperscalers in capital expenditures as global cloud revenue spiked 50% year over year in Q3.

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    Cognizant commits to workforce expansion amid AI training push

    The New Jersey-based IT consulting and services firm responded to Department of Labor sanctions with a pledge to hire 1,500 U.S. college graduates.

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    MSP clients want virtual-CISO services: report

    Most managed services providers don't have a dedicated strategic security advisory practice, despite customer demand, Cynomi found.

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    Sandler Partners AI-ifies its sales engineers

    The company expects a self-service assistant will encourage tech advisor partners to engage with its technical team.

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    Opinion

    How MSPs prepare for M&A

    Most owners don’t sell because they have to; they sell because the right strategic moment arrives. 

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    N-able arms MSPs with AI endpoint security automation

    The cybersecurity vendor fortified its remote monitoring and management platforms with AI-assisted vulnerability scanning and patching.

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    Infosys CEO says US immigration constraints won’t raise costs or attrition

    The company grew revenue 1.5% to $5.1 billion in Q2 2027 and expects that growth to continue through the end of the fiscal year.

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    How Abacus mastered two MSP verticals

    The IT services firm drew on financial sector experience and a healthcare acquisition to build credibility in two distinct vertical markets. 

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    Vida brings outcome-based billing to the TSD market

    A channel segment rooted in fixed-price models is bracing for a major shift in how tech is sold.

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    GoTo gives MSPs AI assistance with the promise of oversight

    “MSPs are not short on tools — they’re short on people,” VP of Global Partner Ecosystems Steve Shattuck said.

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    What’s keeping 5 tech executives up at night in the AI era

    From overreaching autonomous agents to a lack of C-suite accountability, tech leaders share their biggest worries on AI use.

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    Cisco 360 partner program gets a late-year tune-up

    The vendor boosted annual contract value growth rewards by 50% and added new tracks for advisors and developers.

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    Broadband groups ask FCC to keep channel partners out of E-Rate rules

    The FCC asked whether channel partners should count as E-Rate consultants. Agents and the carriers that pay them say no.

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    How AI expertise is shifting the balance of power in the channel

    After a year of tighter pricing, supply restrictions and selective partner investment, negotiating clout is shifting back toward partners, according to Omdia.

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    Arms Cyber retools managed services program to fuel midmarket expansion

    The endpoint protection vendor rolled out pay-as-you-grow licensing, fleetwide discounts and partner-controlled support to incentivize its channel.

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    Which MSPs do ChatGPT and Gemini recommend? A new study names names

    Dataprise and Ntiva led a one-day test of five AI engines, but 103 of 152 MSPs surfaced only once. Ntiva’s marketing chief says the rules keep shifting.

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    AI billing suprises trigger operational strain: Splunk

    The Cisco-owned observability platform found that more than half of organizations are grappling with unexpected costs. 

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    SentinelOne unveils AI security partner certifications

    The cybersecurity platform provider also added early access to an agentic AI detection tool for service providers and resellers to its partner program.

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    China-nexus actor linked to attack on ConnectWise Cloud Backup

    Researchers said the hackers employed a powerful AI tool to accelerate and scale the attacks against hundreds of Microsoft 365 users.

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    Opinion

    Managed security deserves a moratorium on acronyms

    When customers are forced to parse the differences between MSP, MSSP, MDR and MXDR, everyone loses.

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    Oxide gets a $445M funding boost as workloads move on-premises

    The startup and its investors are banking on AI economics to drive compute from the cloud to modernized data centers as enterprises weigh the costs of owning infrastructure.

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    Zoom shows tech advisors their path through updated points system

    The communications vendor tweaked its points criteria in the latest update to reward client expansion and co-marketing.

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    Optro invites ISVs and distributors into its channel program

    The vendor will also provide market development funding as it builds out partner alliances with Carahsoft, TD Synnex and other distributors.

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    Analysts clash over AI hardware boom

    Infrastructure buildouts are driving massive capital investments, but Omdia experts disagreed about the channel opportunity at the Canalys Forum.

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    Cognizant commits to training 18,000 Google Cloud AI specialists

    The IT services firm created the Gemini Frontier Capability Group to house teams of forward deployed engineers.