Erick and Rich greet the new year with a look at SolarWinds MSP’s new name, the new business plan you should be drafting right now, and the amusing fallout from a little too much holiday drinking for a reveler in the U.K.
Erick and Rich mull over the grim implications of the SolarWinds Orion hack, discuss a specific technique for taking word of mouth marketing to the next level, and gaze in delighted wonder as 32 illuminated portable toilets sing Christmas carols.
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Initially spearheaded by ConnectWise, the group now known as the CompTIA ISAO will strive to protect channel pros, vendors, and their customers from cybercrime by collecting and disseminating details about the latest threats.
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Together with a free cloud-to-cloud migration program, the company says, the new interfaces remove a significant impediment to transferring data from Amazon Web Services to Backblaze’s comparatively economical platform.
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The new offering, which supplements the vendor’s GravityZone and other security solutions, is designed to help MSPs manage a never-ending torrent of alerts more effectively by offloading some of that task to an experienced third-party.
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Though the details are still to be determined, John O’Shea (pictured) describes his mission as helping both Tech Data and its partners embrace next-generation market opportunities even faster than before.
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Called the Lenovo Partner Hub, the new site gives both client device resellers and data center partners unified access to comprehensive sales, marketing, training, and support resources for the first time.
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Set to go into effect next month, the change is part of a larger transition by NetApp towards a new identity as a maker of both on-premises storage hardware and cloud-based storage and productivity services.
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When it rolls out later this year, the new collaboration with Microsoft will let users of SolarWinds N-central and SolarWinds RMM monitor the devices they administer in Intune through the same interface they use to manage other customer endpoints.
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An expanded edition of the vendor’s Voleer application draws on a library of pre-engineered templates to automate management tasks associated with cloud solutions like Microsoft 365 and its Microsoft Teams component.
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The enhancements to Microsoft 365 and Teams were accompanied by the separate release of a solution designed to help workplaces closed due to the coronavirus welcome employees back safely.
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To avoid imposing further disruption on partners already impacted by the coronavirus, the industry giant is announcing few significant changes to the Microsoft Partner Network at this year’s all-virtual partner conference.
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