Topic: Business Strategy - Page 133

Unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the new products seek to meet SMB and MSP demands for more cost-effective, high-performance, and simplified network, Wi-Fi, and switching management.

The two organizations aim to help managed service providers and managed security service providers more easily and efficiently administer security awareness training for their clients.

A new suite of features seeks to help MSPs improve pricing and packaging of Microsoft Azure.

The new program bundles security, backup, and eLearning products into standard Office 365 plans at no extra cost.

The New MSP Advice Project features content from solution providers addressing technical issues, marketing tips, sales support, and other business challenges.

Microsoft is showing the partner ecosystem it is all-in with IoT and aims to accelerate their time to value, according to the firm’s Rodney Clark (pictured).

The new functionality lets technicians track health, performance, and utilization information about switches, printers, routers, and firewalls through the same consolidated control panel they use to support servers and workstations.

At the final leg of the 2018 tour, MSPs, VARs, and other attendees spent two days in business building sessions then celebrated their picks for the best of the best at the ASCII Cup party.

The new offering is designed to help larger numbers of partners engage in an enablement program previously available only via consultant-led, face-to-face engagements.

The two-day educational and networking event touched on hot topics like the Internet of Things and and included business continuity lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey.