Announced today at CES 2021, the four laptops and 2-in-1s, which include the thinnest ThinkPad ever made (pictured), come with Dolby video, audio, and voice features for better videoconferencing, plus 5G-ready options.

Big news for Pax8, facial authentication tech from Intel, and a regrettable Christmas Eve mistake by a drunk and overenthusiastic Celine Dion fan are but a few of the stories we’re belatedly getting to just in time for the weekend.

Erick and Rich greet the new year with a look at SolarWinds MSP’s new name, the new business plan you should be drafting right now, and the amusing fallout from a little too much holiday drinking for a reveler in the U.K.

Sharing we like. Oversharing, not so much. And sometimes the kindest thing you can do for others is close up that kimono of yours. Or so say Matt, Rich, and their guest host, cloud consultant and entrepreneur Jamison West. They also have some things to say about SolarWinds MSP’s soon-to-be new name and the security landscape in 2021, not to mention cloud management, a topic they discuss with RMM pioneer and now cloud identity management CEO Peter Sandiford, of Zerotek.

For networking, VPN, and threat protection capabilities, the FLEX series of UTM gateways may very well be the cure your SMB customers are looking for in a post-COVID world.

MSPs can boost traditional revenue streams by extending customers’ hardware and software asset lifecycles, and managing and securing on-prem and cloud-based assets.

Announced ahead of next week’s CES conference, the forthcoming hardware arrives at a time when work-from-home computing, remote learning, and other newly pervasive use cases are driving demand for flexible products optimized for videoconferencing.

From Ethernet and Wi-Fi to LTE, private LTE, and 5G, there are lots of different ways to connect your customers’ edge computing environments to the cloud.

Bare-metal automation platforms can provide some unique advantages over wholly cloud-hosted solutions.

Communications systems must have security measures built into their core design—not simply tacked on through updates.