Topic: Managed Services - Page 90

The six-city, two-day conference series rode southwest into Dallas with a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

With rising costs cutting into margins, channel pros can use this moment to rightsize pricing in a way customers will understand.

Put ‘er there, pal! Or come to think of it, maybe don’t per ‘er there just yet. While we think that through, we invite you to join Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Michael Goldstein, of LAN Infotech, as they discuss the new threat intelligence portal from Kaspersky, former Microsoft channel chief Rodney Clark’s new gig, the current state of play in the hardware market, and whether or not cloud vendors selling direct to end users is a threat to channel pros.

Are cloud vendors who sell direct a threat to channel pros? Ingram Micro doesn’t think so, and neither do Erick and Rich, who also discuss the possibility that M&A valuations for MSPs have peaked and that Elvis-themed Las Vegas wedding chapels are doomed.

Think Halloween is the only time you can get a fun-sized Snicker-nugget? At ChannelPro you can get them year round, and there’s plenty for everyone with Rich out on vacation. That leaves Matt and guest host Erick Simpson to discuss Bitdefender’s new consumption-priced MDR service for MSPs, the latest edition of NinjaOne’s software suite, how to help SMBs leverage IT to drive growth, and some great tips on optimizing document migrations.

The right tools and proper planning will ease the seemingly impossible challenges of sizable document migration projects.

MSPs who encourage their SMBs to invest in forward-looking security, storage, and data center solutions will help them be successful in the ever-changing digital landscape.

Side by side once more, Erick and Rich discuss Ingram Micro’s new “digital twin,” how and why to get MDF, and a brilliant invention from Johns Hopkins University that prevents burritos from unrolling.

Aimed at a critical defensive measure for SaaS applications, the new features are designed to helps MSPs enroll users in MFA across multiple tenants and receive immediate notification when MFA policies are violated.

They’re our latest bumper crop of cool new names to know in cloud computing, IT management, security, and BDR.