NinjaOne Gets Backup Boost with $270M Dropsuite Deal

Austin, Texas-based NinjaOne this week confirmed that its acquisition of Australian cloud backup provider Dropsuite for approximately $270 million is a done deal.

The goal of the deal, according to NinjaOne's announcement, is to corral endpoint, server and SaaS application backups into a single platform. The idea is to simplify operations for MSPs and enterprise IT teams without compromising on data protection.

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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on June 06, 20250 comments


CrowdStrike Works with Microsoft To Streamline Cybersecurity Response

Microsoft and CrowdStrike, one of its strategic security partners, have launched a joint effort to make it easier to identify cyber threat actors that have different, vendor-specific names.

Announced earlier this week, the partnership aims to address longstanding naming inconsistencies that can hamstring efforts to quash threats. To do this, the companies plan to create a shared mapping system that links various aliases used by different security vendors to identify the same threat groups -- what CrowdStrike called in its press release a "Rosetta Stone" for cyber threat intelligence.

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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on June 04, 20250 comments


With Anavate Buy, Dynamics 365 Partner Argano's Expansion Plans Continue Apace

Argano, a digital services consultancy based in Plano, Texas, has acquired Anavate Partners, a Phoenix-based firm specializing in cloud-based planning and forecasting solutions, particularly on the Anaplan platform.

The move represents Argano's fourth acquisition in 2025 and its twentieth since it was founded in 2020, according to a press release last month. With Anavate, Argano further solidifies its plan to improve its technical capabilities and broaden its solution portfolio, with the ultimate goal of expanding its global reach.

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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on June 02, 20250 comments