Topic: Managed Services - Page 103

Speakers at the IT membership community’s second-to-last conference for 2021 addressed top-of-mind issues in the SMB channel, with a particular focus on security and cloud computing.

A recent MicroAge survey of IT leaders finds MSPs are falling short in three key areas: cloud strategy, security, and IT spending.

Threat hunting proactively looks for threats your automated detection tools might miss, providing additional protection for your customers.

Everyone else is working from home these days. Why not The King? You know who’s not working from home this week? Rich Freeman. He’s in Las Vegas for Kaseya’s ConnectIT conference and has plenty of news from Kaseya to share. He and Matt also discuss HP’s big new collaboration and conferencing portfolio as well as the challenges and pleasures of running a tech business with your spouse.

Side by side for the first time since COVID, Erick and Rich discuss Kaseya’s take on its RMM breach, trueing up your managed services clients, and a woman who went to sleep alone and woke up next to a meteorite.

CMO Mike Puglia (pictured) discussed those and other product plans at the vendor’s ConnectIT event this morning.

Security takes multiple layers, even when the threat you’re securing against is walking, dead, and hungry for brains. Take it from MSP and security pro Charles Henson, of Nashville Computer, who joins Matt and Rich this week to discuss Datto’s SaaS Defense product, MSP360’s flat-rate Amazon S3 backup storage, takeaways from the recent Bandwidth.com DDoS incident, and how to profit from helping businesses complete security questionnaires.

Here’s a look at what’s coming soon from Armor, Mindmatrix, Nfina, and TD SYNNEX.

Erick and Rich discuss the significance of Microsoft launching Windows 11 in the same week VMware updated its cloud platform, urge you to raise prices in January, and salute an industrious squirrel who borrowed a pickup truck to store walnuts.

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