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Speaking with ChannelPro today, CEO Jason Magee (pictured) described spending cuts and roadmap adjustments designed to help both ConnectWise and its partners make it past economic stagnation to the growth that will follow.

Create a better system of communication and workflow by employing Toyota’s visual management concept.

E-cycling. Coaching. If you’re doing them the way Matt, Rich, and guest host Scott Beck, of Canadian MSP BeckTek, recommend there should be no sweating involved and no one in a track suit barking at you. Tune in to this week’s episode to get the lowdown not just on e-cycling used hardware and Tech Data’s free professional coaching program, but the latest financing offers from D&H and a new cloud/security suite from Zix and AppRiver.†

The new resource, which is available to partners in the U.S. and Canada at present, offers access to insights and advice on a wide range of business and technology topics from dozens of Tech Data subject matter experts.

Called Secure Cloud, the new offering adds products from Zix’s email security and archiving portfolio to a previously introduced Microsoft 365 ordering and billing platform from AppRiver, the cloud distributor Zix acquired last year.

Equipped with a modernized UI, the new release is designed to provide easier access to more digestible information about uninterruptible power supplies and other power equipment.

Sabine Howest (pictured) now heads up Ingram’s ongoing efforts to help partners build Internet of Things practices. The new center of excellence will support that project by providing access to subject matter experts, labs, demo facilities, and more.

In an appearance on the ChannelPro Weekly podcast, private equity investor Philip Vorobeychik (pictured) said MSPs should scale up to build value. Whether they should do it with help from private equity, however, is a more complicated question.

Two new financing options announced today are the latest additions to a series of offerings the distributor is using to help channel pros shore up cash flow, which include awarding $50 million of increased credit during the month of March alone.

The new system, which now comes pre-loaded on Dell commercial PCs and can be added to late-model devices for free as well, continually looks for BIOS changes that could be an indicator of malicious activity.