Topic: Industry Events - Page 46

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.

Now that it’s launched security systems, Continuum plans to teach MSPs how to sell them and link them more tightly with its RMM product and outsourced help desk, according to Chief Revenue Officer Bob Kocis (pictured).

The compliance system lets MSPs assess, monitor, and produce reports for customers bound by the federal government’s HIPAA regulation. The Office 365 security capabilities extend protection previously available only for on-premises applications into the cloud.

Enhancements to the company’s RMM and BDR solutions set for release later this year will help MSPs administer Microsoft Azure environments and backup Azure data. Integration with IT Glue’s documentation solution arrives next month.

Marketopia’s three-day event provides training, workshops, and panels to give channel pros actionable strategies for driving more business.

Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang (pictured) recapped the year of accomplishments since the last Transform, which he said has made the company the leader in “intelligent transformation.”

Both efforts will culminate at the vendor’s IT Nation Connect conference in Orlando this November.

The two-day educational and networking event featured an agenda geared to help MSPs grow their businesses.