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Erick and Rich explore Cytracom’s bold move into secure networking, explain why watching Google for local ransomware stories can help MSPs land new business, and question why anyone would want to take their house plants with them on vacation.

Delivering cloud services and providing them with strong business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) protection can present challenges, so it’s helpful to hear from other MSPs about what worked for them and to learn best practices for providing value to customers. Datto interviewed its MSP partners to gather insights about what helped them successfully grow their business with the cloud. No matter your cloud maturity, learning from other MSPs will help guide you in your efforts to establish a cloud practice.

Datto surveyed more than 1,800 managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide to learn more about who they are and what they care about. Of those surveyed, only 17% were active Datto partners. The result: A wealth of data and insights from a diverse sample of MSPs on how they run their business, the solutions they use to serve clients, and their predictions for the next few years.

MSPs play an important role in helping their SMB clients implement and scale their IT operations, acting as their advisor for all things IT. But how can MSPs help businesses with more established IT infrastructures? The answer is co-managed
IT services. This eBook provides an introduction to the co-managed IT model—what it is and how it benefits MSPs and your clients.

As the founder and CEO of Technology Marketing Toolkit prepares for her annual IT Sales and Marketing Boot Camp next month, she shares some thoughts on what’s ahead.

Some matchups are competitive. Others not so much. And when it comes to bacon versus, well, anything, Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Brian Weiss, of ITECH Solutions, are in lockstep agreement.

Erick and Rich urge you to get in on compliance services even if you’re a regulatory newbie, explain why dumping low margin services regularly is a good idea, and make plans to place an order for Iron Mike Tyson’s ear-shaped cannabis edible.

Live from sunny Mexico, our Joel Zaidspiner checks in with Blackpoint Cyber, CrewHu, and ScalePad.

It’s dangerous out there, ma. Always use toofah. If you don’t believe me, take it from Matt, Rich and returning guest host Lawrence Cruciana, of Corporate Information Technologies. They and this week’s interview guest—Grayson Milbourne, security intelligence director at Webroot—have plenty to say about ransomware-as-a-service, Log4j threats, and a bunch of other reasons why none of us can have too much toofah these days.

So maybe mom DOES love us best, but can you blame her? We’ve got Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Luis Alvarez, of leading-edge solution provider Alvarez Technology Group, here to discuss Nerdio’s melding of virtual and physical resource management, ThreatLocker’s innovative new network access control product, Pax8’s network security distribution deal with WatchGuard, and the secrets to thriving in the post-endpoint era of managed services.