Topic: Industry Events - Page 28

More than 6,000 agents, MSPs, VARs, consultants, integrators, service providers gather for three days of education and networking in Las Vegas.

The two-day event is geared to help MSPs grow their business, help their customers transition to the cloud, and increase monthly recurring revenue opportunities.

Part of the vendor’s increasingly strategic device-as-a-service program, the new offering is part of a larger shift from transactional to contractual customer relationships highlighted today by CEO Dion Weisler (pictured) at HP’s Reinvent conference.

Speakers and sponsors at the conference, which took place last week in Orange County, Calif., shared advice for capitalizing on rising demand for cybersecurity help and industry-specific services.

The first of six day-long events gathered channel pros and security experts to discuss insights, research, and best security practices for the Internet of Things.

Available in both free and advanced editions, the new functionality automatically searches for advanced persistent threats, keyloggers, malicious registry changes, and other intrusions that have gained a foothold on monitored end points.

According to CEO Arnie Bellini (pictured), core elements of the initiative include the launch of an open source security integration standard and the introduction of new cybersecurity solutions, some of which will compete with products from ConnectWise partners.

Microsoft is showing the partner ecosystem it is all-in with IoT and aims to accelerate their time to value, according to the firm’s Rodney Clark (pictured).

At the final leg of the 2018 tour, MSPs, VARs, and other attendees spent two days in business building sessions then celebrated their picks for the best of the best at the ASCII Cup party.

The two-day educational and networking event touched on hot topics like the Internet of Things and and included business continuity lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey.