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Today’s headline news for Canadian IT solution providers:

• Acronis appoints former WatchGuard CEO Prakash Panjwani: Acronis has named Prakash Panjwani chief executive officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Jan-Jaap “JJ” Jager, who will remain a shareholder in the company.Panjwani previously served as CEO of WatchGuard Technologies and SafeNet. During roughly a decade at WatchGuard, he helped transform the company from a firewall-focused vendor into a broader cybersecurity platform provider, expanding its capabilities in endpoint protection, extended detection and response, and managed security.Acronis is highlighting his experience building MSP-focused platforms, integrating security technologies and expanding businesses through organic growth and acquisitions.

  The company has increasingly positioned its portfolio around the convergence of data protection, cybersecurity, infrastructure management and service automation. Panjwani’s appointment suggests that strategy will remain central to its next stage of development.

  For Canadian MSPs, the important questions concern how Acronis will continue integrating those capabilities, simplifying service delivery and supporting partner profitability.

  No immediate changes to the company’s partner program, pricing or product roadmap were announced.

• Virtuozzo introduces smaller infrastructure deployments and updated GPU support: Virtuozzo Infrastructure System 8.0 introduces a lite deployment option designed for environments requiring just one or two servers.The new configuration combines compute, management and storage on local disks, eliminating the need for a separate shared-storage network in smaller deployments. Virtuozzo is targeting service providers, smaller businesses, branch locations and customers that need infrastructure running on their own premises.Version 8.0 also updates Nvidia su