Topic: Industry Events - Page 27

Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

Announced on the eve of the vendor’s annual partner conference, the new and updated products give SMBs new options for experimenting with Microsoft’s answer to Slack, running online events, and more.

Held last week in Hershey, Pa., the distributor’s Mid-Atlantic Summer Technology Show offered nearly 1,000 attendees a host of meet, greet, and learning opportunities.

IT solution providers and technology vendors gathered for two days of networking, education, and training in Ann Arbor.

The newest addition to the ConnectWise product family, which currently provides centralized control over cloud computing solutions, will soon perform similar functions for backup and security solutions from ConnectWise’s vendor partners.

Both BDR vendors have made it easier for MSPs to monitor, provision, and invoice services from directly within the ConnectWise Manage PSA system and ConnectWise Automate RMM solution.

Crowned at the vendor’s Automation Nation event today, Jimmy Puckett and David Wilkeson (pictured) will receive up to $100,000 to create an add-on for the ConnectWise Manage PSA solution that automates employee bonus calculation.

Speaking at the company’s 2018 Automation Nation event today, Chief Product Officer Craig Fulton (pictured) described a platform philosophy aimed at offering MSPs single-pane-of-glass control over its own solutions and those from its ecosystem of partners.

Scheduled to ship at the end of October, the new system combines public and private cloud infrastructure with migration, configuration, administration, and cost-optimization assistance from HPE’s Pointnext professional services unit.