The vendor’s network monitoring and management solution will soon display a list of applications running on managed devices, and generate alerts if CPU consumption gets too high. A new customer-focused view of devices arrives shortly as well.

The six-city, two-day conference series rode southwest into Dallas with a lineup of educational sessions addressing the top issues and trends managed service providers and integrators care about.

D&H Selects HPE GreenLake and Configure-to-Order (CTO) Offering to Give MSPs a Sophisticated, On-Premises or Cloud Model for IaaS 

With rising costs cutting into margins, channel pros can use this moment to rightsize pricing in a way customers will understand.

The new system lets the cloud security vendor’s MSP partners take automated action following incidents involving their clients based on customized rules and policies.

Put ‘er there, pal! Or come to think of it, maybe don’t per ‘er there just yet. While we think that through, we invite you to join Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Michael Goldstein, of LAN Infotech, as they discuss the new threat intelligence portal from Kaspersky, former Microsoft channel chief Rodney Clark’s new gig, the current state of play in the hardware market, and whether or not cloud vendors selling direct to end users is a threat to channel pros.

Software from ESET and VMware, laptops from Microsoft, and a law against voicemail hell from Spain are among the stories we finally got around to just before the weekend.

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.