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Channel pros who want to offer edge computing solutions will have to acquire skills outside their traditional lane and be able to explain the business benefits to SMB customers.

The 2021 ASCII IT Success Summit series of two-day business-building events for MSPs and solution providers ends the year in Anaheim, capped off with the ASCII Cup awards.

Accompanied by the release of a new L3 private core and a new application visibility and control solution, the SD-WAN and SASE services are tailored to the needs of hybrid workplaces with cloud-focused IT strategies.

Three new plans unveiled today replace five earlier options, and add new capabilities like DNS filtering and automated incident response.

A new “Inspector” aims to help MSPs simplify management, accounting, and reporting by automatically collecting detailed security, licensing, and billing information from Vade for M365 and then feeding it to the Liongard system’s consolidated interface.

Called EdgeConnect Microbranch, the new offering aims to help businesses extend the SD-WAN and SASE services at their main office to remote sites without deploying bulky gateway hardware or software agents.

Bring your own…pitchfork? Poodle? Pompadour? You’ll just have to listen to this week’s show to find out. Luckily for you, you’ll also hear Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Rory Sanchez, of True Digital Security, discuss the new stand-alone small business edition of Microsoft Teams, Poly’s desk phone trade-in program, research from Auvik revealing the future of SMB networking, and evidence from Sophos and Trend Micro that security vendors are all-in on cloud.

Providing access to the CIS security controls compliance tool from within its solution, the vendor says, will help channel pros develop detailed and comprehensive client recommendation reports more rapidly.

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

The four new endpoint security modules are the latest additions to WatchGuard Cloud, the online administration portal for the vendor’s portfolio of network security, Wi-Fi security, endpoint security, and multifactor authentication solutions.