Are cloud vendors who sell direct a threat to channel pros? Ingram Micro doesn’t think so, and neither do Erick and Rich, who also discuss the possibility that M&A valuations for MSPs have peaked and that Elvis-themed Las Vegas wedding chapels are doomed.

FlexPod-as-a-service, offered in partnership with NetApp, and FlashStack-as-a-service, offered in partnership with Pure Storage, are the latest additions to Cisco’s growing family of usage-based infrastructure offerings.

The new release aims to ease and accelerate threat analysis by delivering a comprehensive, real-time view of emerging risks, unfolding attacks, and other activity based on data from Kaspersky’s own feeds and a variety of third-party sources.

Think Halloween is the only time you can get a fun-sized Snicker-nugget? At ChannelPro you can get them year round, and there’s plenty for everyone with Rich out on vacation. That leaves Matt and guest host Erick Simpson to discuss Bitdefender’s new consumption-priced MDR service for MSPs, the latest edition of NinjaOne’s software suite, how to help SMBs leverage IT to drive growth, and some great tips on optimizing document migrations.

Research from Citrix Systems points to planned investments in desktop as a service as businesses move to a hybrid work model.

The right tools and proper planning will ease the seemingly impossible challenges of sizable document migration projects.

MSPs who encourage their SMBs to invest in forward-looking security, storage, and data center solutions will help them be successful in the ever-changing digital landscape.

News from the big Lenovo and Veeam conferences, hardware from HP, DaaS from Citrix, and an answer to the age old question, “what happens when a toddler discovers DoorDash?” are among the stories we’ve finally brought you.

Don’t let those end users stay up past their bedtime, channel pros, and help yourself to any snacks in the cupboard. In the meantime, why not listen in as Matt, Rich, and guest host Frank Bravata, of MSP Cyber Brigade, discuss the news from Ingram Micro’s latest Cloud Summit, channel chief Rodney Clark departing Microsoft, and ChannelPro’s 2022 Vendors on the Vanguard list?

Side by side once more, Erick and Rich discuss Ingram Micro’s new “digital twin,” how and why to get MDF, and a brilliant invention from Johns Hopkins University that prevents burritos from unrolling.