Topic: Business Strategy - Page 64

Are cloud vendors who sell direct a threat to channel pros? Ingram Micro doesn’t think so, and neither do Erick and Rich, who also discuss the possibility that M&A valuations for MSPs have peaked and that Elvis-themed Las Vegas wedding chapels are doomed.

Think Halloween is the only time you can get a fun-sized Snicker-nugget? At ChannelPro you can get them year round, and there’s plenty for everyone with Rich out on vacation. That leaves Matt and guest host Erick Simpson to discuss Bitdefender’s new consumption-priced MDR service for MSPs, the latest edition of NinjaOne’s software suite, how to help SMBs leverage IT to drive growth, and some great tips on optimizing document migrations.

Side by side once more, Erick and Rich discuss Ingram Micro’s new “digital twin,” how and why to get MDF, and a brilliant invention from Johns Hopkins University that prevents burritos from unrolling.

They’re our latest bumper crop of cool new names to know in cloud computing, IT management, security, and BDR.

The six-city, two-day conference series headed west to Chicago, featuring a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

MSPs that create healthy, proprietary ecosystems with diverse offerings to solve SMBs’ real business problems will gain a competitive edge.

MSPs will need to address the endpoint and infrastructure holistically, leveraging new technology and modern practices.

At its 2022 partner conference this week, the power vendor called management software an increasingly critical ingredient in hardware deals, and outlined forthcoming plans to roll all of its management tools together into a single, unified platform.

By focusing on data management and governance, you begin the process of building an IT environment that becomes increasingly efficient and adaptable.

Adding AI-powered tools to network monitoring and management pays dividends for growing service providers.