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Rich is in Phoenix, Erick's in NYC, and they're talking about ConnectWise, HTG Peer Groups, and the importance of succession planning in this week's 5 Minute Roundup.
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Automation Nation will now offer technical content for the entire ConnectWise portfolio, allowing IT Nation to focus on business best practices content. Datto, Kaseya, and other rivals formerly barred from those shows are now welcome to attend.
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CES goodies from Dell, HP, Acer, ASUS, and more, a new CEO for SYNNEX, and radiation protection for your…um, never mind were among the stories we neglected to cover for you this week.
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Developed, sold, and supported by a new and independently run subsidiary named Unitrends MSP, the subscription-based, aggressively-priced product adds functionality tailor-made for MSPs to the legacy Unitrends backup solution’s core engine.
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In the first installment of a two-part Q&A, Datto’s CEO explains how the merger with Autotask came about, what it means for MSPs, and where the combined company’s product roadmap is headed next.
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Two days after announcing that the company he founded has completed its acquisition by a private equity firm and officially merged with Autotask, the Datto CEO has now made the largest donation in the history of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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The incident response solution offers policy-based alerting and integrates with a wide range of third-party management platforms. The managed SIEM service lets midsize and larger organizations outsource administration of third-party SIEM products to Vijilan technicians.
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The newly combined company has also introduced a revamped executive roster, headed by Datto CEO Austin McChord (pictured), that adds key Autotask managers to Datto’s senior pre-merger leadership team.
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Announced at a time of accelerating vendor consolidation, the $1.6 billion deal adds a major security and backup player to a portfolio of holdings that already included Continuum, SolarWinds, and Bomgar, as well as a minority stake in McAfee.
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