New agreements with Quantela, iValu8, and Molex give resellers in the Americas access to a range of new “smart city,” retail marketing, and network-connected lighting solutions featuring Cisco networking gear. - read more

Now, sadly, a duo instead of part of a trio, Matt and Rich blitz through several weeks of news, including the launch of Datto’s managed power product and partner marketing platform; the much-discussed demo of a Datto VDI solution at DattoCon 2017; Continuum’s acquisition by Thoma Bravo, the same private equity firm that owns competitor SolarWinds MSP; and ConnectWise’s ambitious plan to build a Lego-like customizable management platfor - read more

Find out when the next edition of LabTech, er, ConnectWise Automate reaches market, why thin clients are replacing thick ones in ConnectWise products, and whether new solutions or vendor acquisitions are in ConnectWise’s future. - read more

Users now have greater visibility into and control over data migrations, as well as the ability to restore entire OneDrive for Business repositories and purchase backup licensing for OneDrive alone. - read more

The new deployment option targets SaaS resellers who want to use ConnectWise’s cloud management system but not the rest of its managed services software suite. New billing and single sign-on capabilities for CloudConsole debuted today as well. - read more

Omni WAN aims to bring high quality and reliability of expensive MPLS networks to low-cost broadband. - read more