Topic: Hardware - Page 24

Gosh, puffins are cute. Who doesn’t love a bird in a tuxedo? Or are we thinking of penguins? What’s the difference, anyway? Never mind, we don’t have time for that, because there are way too many other topics for Matt and Rich to discuss on this week’s show with guest host Rob Boles, of managed security service provider BLOKWORX.

Margins on hardware may be thin, but channel pros are finding new and effective ways to make money from it anyway.

As the country starts to open up, the multivendor effort has plans to continue through the year with a shift toward education.

Get ready for a sucker punch of IT news, views, and insights. Joined by guest host Vince Tinnirello, of Anchor Network Solutions, Matt and Rich chew over IT Glue buying TruMethods, Pax8 buying Sea-Level Operations, Sophos entering the XDR market, and Cytracom adding team texting to its UCaaS solution. Then your hosts catch up with Darren Gottesmann of Ingram Micro for a look at the crazy year behind us and the “golden age” we may be entering now.

Using the new capability, technicians who run Pulseway’s mobile app on an iPhone or iPad can restart servers, power off workstations, run scripts, apply patches, and more using only their voice.

Industry-specific solutions leveraging Internet of Things technology are solving pain points and increasing efficiency and safety.

Called “shared inboxes,” the new feature lets multiple users exchange texts with customers on behalf of their employer using a company phone number, instead of individual lines.

The new features, which join others unveiled today during the documentation vendor’s GlueX partner conference, are evidence of IT Glue’s continued investment in innovation, according to General Manager and CTO Nadir Merchant (pictured).

Hungry for IT insights? Good, because Matt, Rich, and guest host Ro Kolakowski, founder of 6th Street Consulting, have a heaping helping for you on this episode, spanning from D&H’s new esports and gaming business unit to Intel’s outlook on the year ahead, BitTitan’s emerging “data synchronization as a service” plans, and the characteristics that make great MSPs great, according to Service Leadership’s Paul Dippell.

CDN Technologies has a three-pronged approach to safety: protecting clients, employees, and the MSP business.