Topic: Cloud - Page 55

The ChannelPro SMB Online Forum West gathered MSPs, IT consultants, VARs, and integrators to discuss business strategies and technology trends for a changing workplace.

Available in configurations for small, midsize, and large businesses, the new offerings aim to make ordering and deploying the vendor’s fully managed infrastructure- and disaster recovery-as-a-service solution simpler for channel pros and their customers.

From preintegrated solutions to professional services, distributors offer way more than shrink-wrapped products these days.

With the new Hybrid Edge-Cloud, Nfina provides the most reliable, cybersecure platform that is ideal for small and medium businesses.

Designed to be an affordable complement to Microsoft’s own Azure backup services, the new system lets MSPs snapshot Azure virtual machines up to every 15 minutes and spin them up during cloud outages almost instantaneously.

The new partnership helps channel pros better protect office-based, work-from-home, cloud, and mobile assets more effectively while collecting extra revenue on security services.

This Expert Guide dives into some current opportunities, including adding services on top of Microsoft 365 rather than just selling licenses, developing deep expertise in Azure features to solve customer problems, and building high-margin cloud bundles.

At the distributor’s annual partner event, global technology solutions president Paul Bay (pictured) pointed to a new end-to-end lifecycle management interface for as-a-service solutions as an example of further investments in automation to come.

The two-day event for MSPs featured educational sessions focused on best practices, new revenue streams, and the latest industry trends.

Speakers at the IT membership community’s second-to-last conference for 2021 addressed top-of-mind issues in the SMB channel, with a particular focus on security and cloud computing.