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    Managed security services redraw channel lines

    Partners now handle more than 90% of a $310 billion market as competition intensifies among advisors, MSPs and consulting firms.

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    AvePoint partner push delivers record midmarket signups, 27% ARR growth

    “MSP is almost analogous to SMB to us,” AvePoint CEO Tianyi Jiang told investors during a Q2 2026 earnings call.

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    Lumen’s voice exit: no end date and no plan for partners

    The vendor touted revenue gains in digital and advanced networking products during its second quarter, as it pivoted away from legacy offerings.

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    Cynomi, Spectra give partners a direct path to cybersecurity insurance

    Certified managed service providers can offer clients a discount up to 35% and $1 million in warranty coverage through an integrated platform.

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    OpenAI warns autonomous hacks are ‘watershed moment for computer security’

    Company researchers said their industry should rethink how it balances capabilities and safeguards.

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    MSPs are leaving email signature compliance money on the table

    A stale disclaimer after a merger is a small problem until a regulator asks about it. Regional MSPs are best placed to spot that, and to charge for fixing it.

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    Shadow AI watchdog Sentra aims to thwart data leaks

    The company’s latest capability inspects employee uploads to ChatGPT, Claude and other generative AI tools.

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    ConnectWise deepens SentinelOne partnership

    The expanded alliance adds extended detection and response to the IT services software company’s managed security offering.

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    Palantir touts forward deployed engineers, reports record revenue growth

    “Our entire business nearly doubled in the span of 12 months,” Palantir Cofounder and CEO Alex Karp said Monday in a letter to investors.

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    SHI, WWT join Linux Foundation push to standardize AI costs

    Enterprises can’t say what one AI feature costs to run. Channel partners think answering that question is the next services business.

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    Logicalis lands New Mexico security shop Loial and its SLED book

    The Datatec-owned managed services provider added schools and government agencies to its customer base with the aquisition.

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    Tech industry alliance proposes AI agent safety reporting program

    The information-sharing exchange is designed to widely share lessons learned from agentic AI security incidents.

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    Lemongrass ups its SAP game with AI, forward-deployed engineers

    The provider’s new Brightfield implementation model aims to ease ERP migrations and shorten the path to ROI.

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    N-able rocked by managed services platform breach

    The vendor urged customers to quickly patch vulnerabilities discovered over the weekend in its flagship N-central console.

    Updated Aug. 4, 2026
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    Coeo boosts its Fortinet, Cisco chops with $14.5 million NetWolves buy

    It’s Coeo’s second acquisition in three months, and Vaso’s second IT-related sale in nine months.

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    Enterprises seek help to deploy AI as complexity mounts

    Forward deployed engineers are supporting companies by linking technical AI rollouts to business processes and easing adoption.

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    DXC promotes AI platform builders as Anthropic cohort reaches 86

    The company handed its infrastructure business to the executive who co-built the Claude-powered platform now running in 57 customer environments.

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    Gartner raises 2026 IT spending forecast on AI demand

    The research firm now expects global technology spending to reach $6.37 trillion this year, up 14.2% from 2025.

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    Westcon-Comstor wants to slash emissions in half by 2030, and it needs partners’ help

    After cutting direct emissions by 42% since 2022, the distributor faces the harder challenge of reducing emissions across its supply chain.

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    Microsoft adds 88 data centers in a year and says it needs more

    CFO Amy Hood pointed to the breadth of Microsoft's backlog as evidence the buildout holds up, even if AI demand cools.

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    Partners eye AI cost control as token bills outrun budgets

    Customers can’t forecast what AI will cost them. Omdia’s Alastair Edwards says that uncertainty is a partner opportunity.

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    Otter.ai launches partner program in enterprise push

    The firm’s new head of partnerships believes IT service providers and resellers will see the company as more than a notetaker.

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    Cognizant bets big on closing the ‘AI velocity gap,’ but there’s plenty left to do

    The IT services firm is recasting itself as an “AI builder” as solid second-quarter results and a trimmed outlook capture the nuance.

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    Coalition creates insurance collaboration with MSPs

    The firm is carving out a niche between big-name insurance carriers and security vendors that provide breach warranties.

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    AI incidents cost enterprises $2M or more, and the biggest shadow AI culprit is IT

    Among enterprise decision-makers, 47% named IT and infrastructure as the top source of shadow AI, per a WitnessAI survey.