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Speaking at the latest ChannelPro SMB Forum, Datto’s Rob Rae acknowledged that the company’s pending acquisition by Kaseya is producing more questions than answers, offered reasons for cautious hope, and cautioned against “kneejerk reactions.”

The six-city, two-day conference series headed west to Chicago, featuring a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

The joint initiative will help ASCII Group members expand beyond IT services into new and profitable markets at a time when providers of voice and connectivity services are adding network and device management to their offerings.

MSPs that create healthy, proprietary ecosystems with diverse offerings to solve SMBs’ real business problems will gain a competitive edge.

Channel pros can help SMBs understand which security metrics are crucial to shaping a stronger security posture.

MSPs will need to address the endpoint and infrastructure holistically, leveraging new technology and modern practices.

Fresh equity from Vector Capital will enable the security vendor to speed progress on its product roadmap, make more vendor acquisitions, and provide more resources to its MSP partners, according to CEO Prakash Panjwani (pictured).

MSPs have an opportunity to add vulnerability scanning to their service offerings, providing an additional layer to secure customers.

At its 2022 partner conference this week, the power vendor called management software an increasingly critical ingredient in hardware deals, and outlined forthcoming plans to roll all of its management tools together into a single, unified platform.

There are millions of businesses with fewer than five employees, but MSPs should tread carefully in this market space.