Erick and Rich share thoughts on the latest ChannelPro State of the Channel survey, suggestions on leveraging ChatGPT to boost productivity and strengthen client relationships, and some very special news about the future of this podcast.
Erick and Rich discuss why news from Nerdio and Microsoft made this a big week in cloud management, why it’s never too soon to get rid of a toxic employee, and why getting a victory tattoo of your favorite team BEFORE the big game can be a bad idea.
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.
A sack full of major acquisitions, lots of news (mostly good, but a little bad) from Zoho, and Alexa’s outspoken opinion about Super Bowl LII are among the stories we probably should have told you about earlier in the week.
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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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In meetings with ChannelPro at last week’s Empower MSP conference in Orlando, company executives including Dave Sobel (pictured) described plans to switch from device-centric to user-centric management, equip its RMM systems to make technicians more efficient, and roll out new security solutions.
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We were so busy picking the right pumpkins for the porch we missed some interesting news from HPE, Symantec, and a range of other companies big and small.
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Yet another alliance involving a virtualization vendor and public cloud operator, a $79 AI compute stick from Intel, and a global tribute to those irritating little icons we all somehow can’t live without are among the stories we didn’t tell you about last week.
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Pretty much anything that didn’t happen at Microsoft’s partner conference plus some statistical verification that Americans really do spend their time all day the way clichés say they do were among the many stories we didn’t get to last week.
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The new offerings include a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance for hosting virtual desktops, a new mobile thin client device (pictured), an updated edition of the ThinOS operating system, and a new thin client management platform.
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It doesn’t exist as a shipping product yet, anyway. An experimental virtual desktop infrastructure system demoed at Datto’s annual North American partner conference this week has attendees buzzing with interest though.
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A new [insert guess here] from Microsoft, a new security architecture from Citrix, and the unofficial return of grilling season are all part of the week ahead for the SMB channel.
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