Let’s face it, it’s a pretty tough gig today for MSPs with growth performance under the spotlight. While the overall managed service market is growing, and many MSPs secured new business during the pandemic as they helped companies safely digitize, the market is also attracting new entrants. Many of whom have hyper-relevant, innovative, turnkey solutions and are crowding out established players.

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.

StateRAMP is a set of security controls and oversight mandates for suppliers to state and local governments, including educational institutions.

In honor of World Backup Day, consider these three tips for discussing a more secure backup infrastructure for your managed services clients.

Seven months after becoming one company, Tech Data and SYNNEX are combining org charts, standardizing on a single ERP system, and moving past the awkwardness of being colleagues instead of rivals, according to execs Bob Stegner and Peter Larocque (pictured).

For MSPs, threat hunting is a real opportunity to add tremendous value to their customers’ security postures.

A significant step beyond the vendor’s roots in unified communications, the new system aims to provide a comprehensive, unified platform for securely, centrally, and simply connecting offices and remote workers across multiple locations.

Successful providers of UCC technology actively convey to customers the direct link between communications technology and agility—and choose solutions accordingly.

Businesses need MSPs today more than ever to normalize and secure operations in a hybrid environment and keep business moving forward together.

Despite headwinds from supply chain slowdowns and hiring challenges, market conditions are strong for TD SYNNEX and its partners, according to communities leader Sammy Kinlaw (pictured) and other company executives.