Boom Collaboration, Loop Communications, SecurityStudio, Train Our Troops, Vijilan, and Wildix sit down with Joel Zaidspiner in sunny Miami to share their latest news and notes.

Channel pros can help organizations prepare their networks for the future of work, which must consider employee expectations of flexibility and mobility.

New goodies from Microsoft, Bitdefender, Salesforce, Infrascale, and others are among the many stories we meant to tell you about earlier, but didn’t.

The “plug and play” offerings, designed to help channel pros seize opportunities in security, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, combine hardware, software, reference architectures, deployment instructions, and optional services assistance.

Two by two, folks, two by two. It’s the best way to survive both a world-destroying flood and an RMM outage, for reasons that will become clear as Matt, Rich, and guest host Antwine Jackson, of Enitech Solutions, discuss Microsoft’s new Windows 365 product, the latest developments from NinjaRMM, and (especially) the Kaseya VSA breach.

Erick and Rich discuss why Microsoft’s new Windows 365 may be a game changer, why the time has come to start attending live events again, and why leaving your house vulnerable to break-ins can occasionally have fortunate consequences.

The new devices, which are the company’s first online double-conversion lithium-ion products, are smaller and lighter than units with lead acid batteries and have a longer lifespan, Eaton says, resulting in lower TCO despite higher upfront costs.

Organizations that invest in low-impact technologies to enable and encourage remote collaboration inherently make their operations more environmentally friendly.

Both the enterprise and MSP editions of the vendor’s management solution for Microsoft Azure now let technicians administer “Cloud PCs” based on Microsoft’s new VDI service and Azure Virtual Desktop endpoints through a single pane of glass.

The company plans to employ a $250 million funding round it disclosed today to accelerate development of work-from-home functionality amid skyrocketing business use of consumer-grade networks and personal devices due to the coronavirus pandemic.