This week, Erick and Rich take a look at ChannelPro’s annual industry preview article for 2021, explore the importance of reviewing your performance in 2020, and discuss the wisdom of sampling a new variety of gin made with Elephant dung.
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.
With each issue packed full of powerful news, reviews, analysis, and advice targeting IT channel professionals, ChannelPro-SMB will help you cultivate your SMB customers and run your business more profitably.
This week, Erick and Rich take a look at ChannelPro’s annual industry preview article for 2021, explore the importance of reviewing your performance in 2020, and discuss the wisdom of sampling a new variety of gin made with Elephant dung.
- read more
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.
- read more
Ah, the power of euphemisms. They can turn what might otherwise be called a smashup and make it sound far more appealing. That’s just one of the useful facts you’ll learn this week from Matt, Rich, and guest host Angel Rojas, president and CEO of DataCorps. They’ve also got input for you on SolarWinds getting hacked, Datto’s plans for the future, D&H betting big on professional services, and the challenges of cloud management.
- read more
And they’re mostly good news for a change! Work-from-home upgrades, cloud opportunities, and 5G network rollouts are all on the way next year, according to Carbonite, Cradlepoint, Datto, Navisite, Nerdio, TBI, and Todyl.
- read more
Integration services, endpoint managed services, and project-specific services have been rolling out this year and will continue arriving in 2021, according to Jason Bystrak (pictured), who leads the new venture along with the distributor’s cloud business.
- read more
All three areas will remain priorities should the company spin off as an independent, publicly owned business, said company executives during an online partner conference yesterday.
- read more
Erick and Rich discuss the latest news from Datto on its post-IPO plans, urge you to do performance reviews with your employees at least quarterly, and ponder why anyone would want to take up the world’s strangest martial art.
- read more
At the company’s latest online partner event, CEO Tim Weller (pictured) discussed hiring hundreds of product and partner-facing employees next year, raising cloud-related investments 40%, and keeping a watchful but wary eye on the security market.
- read more
Available at no extra cost to all current subscribers, the Teams functionality augments Microsoft’s basic voice technology with advanced contact center features from BVoIP’s flagship unified communications solution.
- read more
Channel pros can now offer bundled combinations of cloud software and professional services on the AWS Marketplace. Those with custom-developed solutions to sell will gain access to a new partner program for developers next month too.
- read more