Topic: Networking - Page 26

The new products and functionality aim to offer MSPs and their customers greater versatility in the face of increasing network challenges.

Unveiled at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the new products seek to meet SMB and MSP demands for more cost-effective, high-performance, and simplified network, Wi-Fi, and switching management.

The new functionality lets technicians track health, performance, and utilization information about switches, printers, routers, and firewalls through the same consolidated control panel they use to support servers and workstations.

McChord, who founded the BDR and managed services powerhouse 11 years ago as an undergraduate, will be succeeded by president and COO Tim Weller during the search for a successor. He will retain a seat on Datto’s board.

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 power management vendor’s new APC Technology Partners Initiative lets channel pros offer unified threat management solutions from Untangle, BDR software from Infrascale, and 4G/LTE failover services from Accelerated Concepts Inc. at top-tier discounts.

Available for as little as $149 a year, the new add-on for the networking vendor’s ZyWALL VPN firewalls (pictured) lets users run voice and video traffic across the same internet connections they use for everything else without compromising performance.

Called Branch Interconnect and Clinic Interconnect, the two new offerings combine networking, security, and collaboration products from Cisco with outsourced, white-labeled managed services from Tech Data.

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.

Intended for use with the vendor’s commercial access points, the new system is designed to make Linksys a business networking leader in the SMB channel by providing a simple, affordable foundation for Wi-Fi-as-a-service offerings.