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Deals made by independent software vendors using AWS Marketplace are bigger and close faster than those cultivated outside the online platform.

Lenet and OVHcloud US, a subsidiary of French cloud hosting company OVHcloud, are members of the French-American Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta. - Cloudinary, a SaaS provider in the digital asset management field, launched a program for solutions providers. BT and Accenture were among the Forescout partners that helped drive the program changes, according to the company. The relationship also spans the healthcare and education sectors. That's down to the increase in delivery requests and labor shortages that limit the availability of drivers, he noted. Customers receive a free subscription to Trustwave Security Colony, a set of resources for CISOs that includes toolkits, guidelines and playbooks. - Centroid Systems, a managed cloud services company in Troy, Mich., acquired Guardian Eagle, a data security consulting firm with headquarters in St. Petersburg, Fla. VSS Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in New York, invested in Centroid in 2021. The transaction follows West Monroe's purchase of two software engineering companies in 2021: Carbon Five and Verys. Atos tried quite the opposite approach in early 2021, when it floated a proposal to acquire DXC Technology, a $17.7 billion IT services firm headquartered in Tysons, Va. That plan was quickly scuttled. The consulting firm also offers industry clouds in sectors such as financial services, government and life sciences. Launched in 2018, CPPO enables participants to create bespoke offerings with customer-specific pricing and statements of work. Swaine said the growth underscores customers' comfort with the marketplace as a procurement mechanism.