'Private equity isn't magic fairy dust' - MSPs react to Tech Data's $5.4bn acquisition by Apollo

As Tech Data announced yesterday that it is to be snapped up for a cool $5.4bn by private equity (PE) firm Apollo Global Management, the channel is once again asking itself what another PE deal means for traditional players and practices. With only a couple of weeks between this deal and the ConnectWise-Continuum acquisition announcement, and nine short months since Thoma Bravo snapped up ConnectWise in a shock deal, the growing reach of PE money into the channel is becoming ever more enco...