As the security vendor’s first-ever vice president of worldwide partner ecosystems, the AvePoint, Palo Alto, and Ingram Micro veteran will serve as a liaison between his new employer and an increasingly diverse, complex channel.

Having dedicated staff for each role tends to correlate with higher profitability in managed services.

The distributor has long-term plans to unite its Varnex and TechSelect communities into a single company-wide membership organization, according to Kaye McMillan (pictured), who heads up the company’s CommunitySolv organization.

How managed service providers can navigate challenging conditions by leveraging vendor partner and channel ecosystems.

The vendor collective gets ready for its final “Channel Strong” tour of the year after pulling off its last community block party of 2022 in Orlando during Hurricane Nicole.

Due within two weeks, the update will include support for MFA via authentication apps, a new set of procurement reports, and the ability to send order tracking numbers to end users automatically.

Joel Zaidspiner checks in with Actifile, CybrHawk, Datagate, and OITVoiP at the last 7 Figure MSP event of the year in Orlando.

The company is rapidly staffing up a team tasked with helping MSPs get a security practice off the ground and a separate team led by CISO Patrick Beggs (pictured) charged with protecting ConnectWise products from external attack.

The new functionality, which is designed to help MSPs present the data Liongard collects to clients in a more readable format, is the latest in a string of updates this year that include new PSA integrations and scalability enhancements.

Now in an early access program, with general availability scheduled for early next year, the new feature is the vendor’s latest effort to help MSPs with multiple BDR solutions standardize on one system offering comprehensive functionality.