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Version 7.8 of the consolidated BDR, storage, and security offering also includes functionality for orchestrating and automating cloud-based disaster recovery processes, according to Americas Vice President and General Manager Patrick Hurley (pictured).

Formerly available as a stand-alone product or add-on to any edition of Beachhead’s PC encryption and access management solution, SimplySecure USB is now exclusively available as a free, standard feature of SimplySecure PC Premium.

Under an expanded alliance agreement between the two vendors, Continuum partners can now purchase Webroot’s SecureAnywhere DNS Protection solution from inside Continuum’s RMM platform, and use the system at no extra cost.

The service is designed to help partners transform data from public cloud services into actionable insights on optimizing utilization and costs, while securing a safe environment and mitigating cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

The vendor plans to use price cuts, free trial deployments, no-fee onboarding, and other measures to drive adoption of its flagship solution by both newcomers to documentation software and customers of competing vendors, including market leader IT Glue.

The much-requested enhancement, which lets MSPs share documents via their own SSL-enabled URL, arrives alongside new Office 365 licensing synchronization and the addition of configurations and flexible assets to the IT Glue mobile app.

At the distributor’s ONE conference this week, U.S. IoT exec Eric Hembree (pictured) explained why Ingram has been waiting for the right moment to get in on the Internet of Things opportunity, and what it’s up to now that the time to pounce has arrived.

The new as-a-service offering, which is the first member of Ingram’s hybrid solutions portfolio to run on managed, offsite infrastructure, lets businesses enjoy the benefits of a private cloud infrastructure without shouldering the hardware support costs.

According to global cloud exec Nimesh Dave (pictured), the distributor will use a self-serve onboarding tool and a series of solution-hunting search efforts to add lesser-known cloud applications from early-stage vendors to its cloud marketplace.

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.