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The new policy is aimed at eliminating a barrier that has kept some MSPs from joining the threat intelligence sharing group, according to Chief Community Officer MJ Shoer (pictured), speaking at the association’s Communities and Councils Forum.

They will be the latest manifestations of an ambitious campaign led by Michelle Ragusa-McBain (pictured) designed to drive deeper engagement with managed service providers by simplifying procurement, training, and other critical processes.

An emerging channel-friendly version of TPM called alternative OEM maintenance (AOM) is giving channel pros a chance to cash in on so-called “technology lifecycle management.”

Named after a former ChannelPro executive editor who passed away five years ago, the award will grant $5,000 to a talented young woman looking to start a career in technology.

Choice CyberSecurity and Kaseya are among several vendors looking to help channel pros with limited expertise turn compliance services into a recurring revenue stream.

Though the startup maker of managed services software expects most users to rely chiefly on its own RMM, PSA, and other products, it’s about to start linking its software to external vendors as well.

Channel pros seeking to deal with growing threats to their customers’ VoIP systems should examine providers’ networks, service-level agreements, and incident response plans.

Artificial intelligence, the next frontier of automation, will be a business imperative for channel pros who want to become more agile, innovative, and competitive.

The brand-new facilities in Illinois and Florida, which will join three existing U.S. sites and 10 other global ones, are the latest manifestation of CaaB’s efforts to win over North American MSPs with flat-rate pricing and margins averaging 40%.

Five exhibitors at ChannelPro’s first conference of the year—Axcient, Dark Cubed, Gradient MSP, Kaseya, and Quickpass—all have cross-product or cross-vendor data sharing on their near-term product roadmaps.