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    Tech’s titans break revenue records amid deep workforce cuts

    The largest vendors aggressively reduced headcounts to fund historic levels of infrastructure spending, Omdia analysts found.

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    Why security-first identity is the MSP growth story for 2026

    Why treating identity security as a box-ticking exercise no longer works: MSPs must shift from deploying MFA to building comprehensive identity resilience across client networks.

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    Data center boom to push electrical equipment market to $65B by 2030

    Despite transformer shortages and labor constraints, research firm Wood Mackenzie expects data center infrastructure to consume up to 40% of electric grid gear within the next few years.

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    Deep Dive

    How a government contest launched a revolution in AI-based bug hunting

    Security researchers have spent months honing AI systems that can find and fix serious vulnerabilities. Critical infrastructure everywhere could benefit.

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    Harbor IT rounds out midmarket strategy with ComTech buy

    The managed services provider added security and healthcare-focused services to its portfolio with the acquisition.

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    Nvidia eyes $200B CPU market

    The GPU giant has its sights on compute needed for AI agent orchestration, CEO Jensen Huang told investors Wednesday.

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    VC firms pumped over $100B into Snowflake’s partner ecosystem

    Venture capital has funneled $113 billion to AI startups in the Snowflake Partner Network since 2020, according to a Crunchbase report.

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    Channel vendors have an account management problem

    The delicate balance between direct sales and partner-driven deals is under strain, especially in the telco sector.

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    Zendesk deploys customer service agents, raising the bar for its channel partners

    The CRM vendor wants to put an end to chatbots with automation that requires deep industry knowledge and governance support from trusted advisors.

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    Blackstone, Google launch new compute-as-a-service venture

    The TPU cloud offering seeks to increase flexibility for enterprises running AI workloads as cloud infrastructure spend continues to rise.

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    ERP vendor Infor goes all in on the channel

    The company saw partner growth outpace direct sales last year, according to Jeanne Newberry, Infor SVP of ecosystem and business development.

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    Anthropic unseats OpenAI in the enterprise as AI model spending spikes

    Claude was the leading LLM for business use last month, according to the Ramp AI Index.

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    Telecom sector launches its own private ISAC

    Federal government involvement in an existing group chilled some cybersecurity discussions among major telecom providers. The new group is intended to alleviate those anxieties.

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    Microsoft licensing ignites a midmarket battle

    The elimination of bulk enterprise agreement discounts and aggressive customer deal shopping have sparked channel conflict.

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    Dell rewards systems integrators amid AI partner program revamp

    The shift ties larger incentives to customer outcomes and rewards consultants regardless of where final sales are logged.

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    xAI joins crowded coding agent race with Grok Build

    The company’s beta release works directly from the terminal, and focuses on developers and their ability to review and make coding changes.

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    Partners pick up on mixed customer signals amid Microsoft’s E7 push

    As $99 per user annually, the AI-infused 365 bundle may be too pricey for immediate mass adoption.

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    AI inference is a channel opportunity hiding inside an infrastructure problem

    Latency, egress and sovereignty issues are pushing workloads into distributed architectures, according to Akamai. Partners can guide the shift.

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    Microsoft runs afoul of UK regulators again

    The Competition and Markets Authority opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem on Thursday.

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    AI sparks platform consolidation push

    Organizations have clamped down on app sprawl to corral data for agent-to-agent workflows, according to the Futurum Group.

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    Cisco slashes 4,000 jobs as AI revenues soar

    The tech giant will reduce its workforce by nearly 5% despite record growth in its hardware segments.

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    Deep Dive

    New cybersecurity industry coalition aims to lead US critical infrastructure protection

    The new Alliance for Critical Infrastructure’s biggest goal: changing how the nation plans for a major cybersecurity crisis.

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    Kaseya tempts MSPs with wait-and-see agentic platform pricing

    “We need to really better understand the cost of goods sold, and the best way to do that is to see usage over a few months,” Kaseya CPO Jim Lippie said.

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    Google Cloud is hiring an army of AI deployment engineers

    The hyperscaler has job postings for 59 roles related to moving customers beyond experimentation, as deployment muscle becomes a front in the battle for AI talent.

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    Opinion

    How platform consolidation eases AI adoption

    Organizations simply don’t have the governance and compliance support needed to scale use cases.

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    SAP creates single platform for building, deploying AI

    The release of SAP Business AI Platform and SAP Autonomous Suite follows a series of acquisitions by the ERP giant to bolster its data foundation.