Erick and Rich discuss the big integration news from Nerdio, explain why ensuring you have the service capacity you need to keep up with growth in advance is a wise idea, and celebrate the GOAT goat who assisted sheriff’s deputies in Virginia on an arrest.

The security vendor is aggressively recruiting MSP partners to help it protect every business’s biggest target: its employees.

Those of you resisting the switch from a hardware-focused managed services model to the cloud-first model of the future, at least, are the biggest threat to the vendor’s continued growth, according to execs like Joseph Landes (pictured).

A first for the zero-trust network segmentation vendor, the new offering is designed to help Illumio increase its footprint among SMBs.

Vector Choice grew its reputation and revenue by intentionally developing a presence and a persona in the MSP and cybersecurity worlds.

The goal is to give MSPs who use Azure Virtual Desktop to deliver secure work-from-anywhere services greater control over physical devices, which have become critical components of the AVD stack, according to Nerdio CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy (pictured).

The new offering, the distributor’s first for network access control, is designed to let MSPs sell and manage subscription-priced WatchGuard appliances through the same tools they use to deploy, bill, and administer other solutions in Pax8’s growing catalog.

Zyxel’s MG-108 can give a local small or home office network a long-overdue speed boost.

The MSP of tomorrow must excel in a whole new realm of strategic, consultative services aimed at helping businesses capitalize on the power of cloud-based solutions.

Updates introduced last week are designed to make transitioning to NCE “somewhat seamless” to resellers by incorporating new terms and conditions behind the scenes, according to Ingram Micro Cloud exec Victor Baez (pictured).