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In the debut edition of an occassional series, ChannelPro asks veteran IT providers from membership organization The ASCII Group to sound off on what their customers should be worried about when it comes to using personal devices at work.

Due to ship in the fourth quarter of the year, the new interface will equip storage partners to links their products to Veeam’s BDR software with minimal assistance from Veeam itself.

The business continuity vendor made the announcement at its annual partner and user conference, where it also introduced new data protection offerings for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Office 365, and Windows devices.

Under a new arrangement unveiled last week, users of Kaseya’s RMM solution and NOC can automatically route end user support tickets directly through their PSA to GMS’s outsourced help desk service.

Initially tailored to the needs of managed services cooperative The 20, which plans to become a Kaseya user, the new functionality lets multi-MSP organizations work collaboratively across federated yet fully distinct deployments.

The move arms Kaseya partners to administer public cloud environments in addition to on-premises resources.

The broadline leader is also now an authorized distributor of the A3 printers HP shipped last month.

Drawing on assets acquired along with the former Avnet Technology Solutions, the distributor is helping resellers transform themselves from hardware and software order takers to providers of high-margin, industry-specific product and service combinations.

Combining the distributor’s old and new assets is benefitting partners in tangible ways already, Americas president Joe Quaglia (pictured) says, including an expanded, consolidated line card and access to managed security offerings.

Resellers can now include Cisco’s Security Incident Response Service and Ruckus wireless networking products in end user solutions.