As the country starts to open up, the multivendor effort has plans to continue through the year with a shift toward education.

Core to any effective platform is a common foundation that ties all of the security and networking components together.

Azure updates from Microsoft Build, laptops from Acer, and a tasty new use for swarming cicadas are all among the stories we’re sending your way just in time for the holiday weekend.

He’s on the road and face to face with vendors again! Listen in on Joel Zaidspiner’s recent chats with Axcient, Cloudwerxe, OITVoIP, and ReachOut Technology.

There are lots of good reasons to be a channel pro. If golf isn’t one of yours, you need to listen to this week’s show, in which Matt, Rich, and guest host Andrew Sampson, of solution and managed service provider SAAI, discuss forthcoming partner resources from D&H, rising hardware prices, a new automated management solution from Extreme Networks, and ChannelPro‘s latest Vendors on the Vanguard list.

It is critical to strike the right balance of agility and security for your customers’ needs.

Rolled out in March alongside higher deal registration discounts, the changes are designed to minimize the cost of switching from perpetual licensing to “everything as a service”, according to North American Channel Chief Kevin Rooney (pictured).

The enhancements, chiefly to its backup solutions for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365, arrive amid surging migration of backup data from on-premises systems to public cloud platforms.

For end-user businesses, the biggest benefit the cloud provides is the ability to continue working and communicating in any situation.

The new ConceptD 5 models now include a 16-inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio.