Cybersecurity’s tough, but is anything more puzzling than seafood? No really, think about it. Or better yet, don’t think about it and listen to this special edition of ChannelPro Weekly sponsored by Datto instead. Matt and Rich are joined by Datto partner Brian Weiss, of ITECH Solutions, to discuss Pax8 adding AWS to its line card, Dell’s surprisingly strong PC sales two years into the work-from-home era, and the secrets to influencing vendor roadmaps.

The six-city, two-day conference series headed west to Chicago, featuring a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

The joint initiative will help ASCII Group members expand beyond IT services into new and profitable markets at a time when providers of voice and connectivity services are adding network and device management to their offerings.

MSPs that create healthy, proprietary ecosystems with diverse offerings to solve SMBs’ real business problems will gain a competitive edge.

Based on secure, fully managed, and heavily automated technology from Egnyte, Google, and Truyo, the new offering is designed to shorten the CMMC compliance process from months to weeks.

The two A4 and two legal-sized units are engineered to be compact, intuitive, and secure in response to an ongoing trend toward smaller offices used mostly for collaboration, the hardware maker says.

MSPs will need to address the endpoint and infrastructure holistically, leveraging new technology and modern practices.

Centralized security from Trend Micro and Kaspersky, a new speakerphone from Poly, a new CEO for LastPass, and a dubious new addition to the cereal aisle at the grocery store are among the stories we waited all the way until now to tell you about.

Here’s a thought. Rename the OS drive on your PC the Q drive. Makes about as much sense as the letter you probably use now. Next, tune into this week’s jam-packed episode, in which Matt, Rich, and guest host Paul Nebb, of Titan Technologies, discuss Eaton’s move into peripherals, Datto’s new BDR appliances and cloud continuity solution, and a new managed SD-WAN offering from Fortinet, Ingram Micro, and Masergy.

Erick and Rich discuss a managed SD-WAN solution that MSPs and managed service newcomers should look into, explore how and why to raise your rates due to inflation, and pity the fool who now holds the world record for balancing a chainsaw on your chin.