The content team at the MSP Summit site tracks stories of interest to the managed services provider community. Anyone selling managed services or partnering with MSPs will want to know about these developing stories or catch up on stories they have missed. All links are current as of March 9.
Iran War Impact on IT Spending: IDC First Look, Global Outlook 2026
IDC presents a deep dive on what the Iran War means for the technology sector. Based on early regional intelligence and IDC’s macroeconomic modeling framework, the analyst firm points to six primary impact vectors on IT spending: energy price volatility, cloud and data center resiliency, sovereign infrastructure acceleration, cybersecurity, supply chain, and shifts in consumer and enterprise investment sentiment. Read the IDC blog.
Sequoia Capital: Services are the New Software
The next $1 trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm, according to venture capitalist firm Sequoia Capital. Sequoia says every founder building an AI tool is asking the same question: what happens when the next version of Claude makes my product a feature? They’re right to worry. If you sell the tool, you’re in a race against the model. But if you sell the work, every improvement in the model makes your service faster, cheaper, and harder to compete with. A company might spend $10K a year for QuickBooks and $120K on an accountant to close the books. The next legendary company will just close the books. Read Sequoia’s take on services and software.
ITAD Firms are the new MSPs — and Private Equity is Noticing
The IT asset disposition (ITAD) sector is undergoing a consolidation wave that mirrors what reshaped the MSP market five years ago, according to Martinwolf SVP Michael Rosholt in a guest post on Channel Dive. He explained how ITADs play an important role in the global economy, specializing in the secure and environmentally responsible disposal of obsolete or unwanted hardware. Read the Channel Dive story.
ConnectSecure Delivers Unified Linux Patching Capabilities for MSPs to Serve Customers
ConnectSecure, a vulnerability management and compliance management vendor that serves MSPs, recently added cross-platform Linux operating system patching capabilities to its ConnectSecure MSP platform. The new capabilities offer service providers a more efficient way to provide diverse operating system patching for customer IT infrastructures. Read the ChannelE2E story.
CrowdStrike’s MSSP Business Grew More Than Tenfold in 3 Years
CrowdStrike touted the success of its revamped partner program during its earnings call for the three months ended Jan. 31. Channel partner sales helped the cybersecurity company surpass a milestone of $5 billion in annual recurring revenue, which grew 24% year over year to $5.25 billion in Q4. “Our partner go-to-market delivered beyond expectations this past year,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said. “In just over three years, we’ve gone from a sub-$100 million MSSP business to more than $1.3 billion.” Read the Channel Dive story.
Cork Cyber Unveils Software Installer Scripts
Cork Cyber launched Software Installer Scripts within the Cork Vantage Platform, a new capability that enables MSPs to generate dynamic installer scripts for vulnerable and outdated software across Windows environments. Read the Channel Insider story.