The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the need for SMBs to adopt better cloud and data recovery strategies, creating an opportunity for MSPs to offer guidance and services.

Introduced in response to spiking demand for remote management capabilities among businesses with work-from-home employees, the new package offers a subset of relevant features from Pulseway’s core managed services suite at a lower price.

New alliances for Microsoft, new small biz software from Cisco, new hardware from HP and Lenovo, and a new way to make empty stadiums sound less empty during socially-distanced pro sports events are among the stories we’ve finally gotten around to.

It’s hard to put a price tag on good health and a good job these days. A good sandwich, though? That’s worth a cool million. Just ask Michael Goldstein, president and CEO of LAN Infotech and this week’s guest host. He has thoughts to share with Matt and Rich on other topics too, like the cross-platform “cyber resilience” functionality coming soon to Carbonite and Webroot, the many reasons veterans make good IT employees, and Kaseya’s latest product integrations.

90-day loan flooring and no-cost subscriptions to remote management tools are key parts of a wider effort by the power quality vendor to help partners conserve cash and support customers despite distancing laws, according to channel exec Curtiz Gangi (pictured).

As Military Appreciation Month comes to a close, we talk to three veterans who share their paths to IT and the channel.

Off the road but back on the air, our own Joel Zaidspiner returns with remotely recorded updates from AvePoint, BVoIP, and SiteLock.

Acquisitions by Microsoft and Intel, deeper ties between Sophos and Arcserve, and some family-unfriendly ersatz baseball spectators are among the stories we finally managed to sneak in before the holiday weekend.

Channel pros’ skills in data management, security, and managed services dovetail nicely with this emerging market.

Hips don’t lie, folks. Neither do Matt, Rich, or their guest host this week, MSP extraordinaire and former IT Glue exec Luis Giraldo of Ook Enterprises. Listen in as they discuss Tin Can, Luis’s interesting new cooperative services venture, plus Dell’s latest commercial laptops, stats about ransomware, and ChannelPro‘s 2020 Vendors on the Vanguard list.