The purpose of this report is to empower MSPs and IT solution providers to hone defense and recovery strategies in order to keep SMBs safe in the year ahead.
Join Erick and Rich as they discuss the potentially game-changing RMM system Kaseya has coming, how to handle a sales prospect who says “we’ve got a guy,” and just how big the biggest freshwater fish ever caught turns out to be.
Erick and Rich discuss Cisco’s big MSP recruiting drive, why you should have an offboarding process for clients that’s as good as your onboarding process, and whether or not being removed from a vat of chocolate you’re swimming in is really being “rescued”.
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.
In the completion of deals announced late last year and early this one, Sophos has been formally acquired by Thoma Bravo and Veeam has been bought by Insight Partners.
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Kicking off an effort to build artificial intelligence into its solutions, acquiring security vendors, and taking the company public are all among the IT management vendor’s plans for the year ahead, according to CEO Fred Voccola (pictured).
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The blockbuster deal, which is the latest in a wave of private equity investments involving leading vendors, is valued at approximately $5 billion.
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An addition to the vendor’s existing backup solution for workstations, servers, and business documents, the new system offers unlimited protection for data in Exchange Online, OneDrive, and SharePoint for a flat $1.50 per user per month.
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October 30th, 2019 | Rich Freeman with Colleen Frye
Announced by CEO Jason Magee (pictured), the blockbuster deals add BDR, security, and documentation to a lineup that already included RMM, PSA, quoting, and remote control, positioning ConnectWise to offer one of the industry’s most complete portfolios for MSPs.
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Connecting its documentation solution more closely with more products, especially from parent company Kaseya, and arming the system to act on the information it collects automatically are among the vendor’s highest long-term priorities.
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Private equity money is pouring into the managed services market in torrential quantities. Vendors are buying or merging with other vendors all but weekly. Having trouble keeping track of it all? Download this handy and extremely partial scorecard for an at-a-glance overview of the continuing consolidation among the software suppliers channel pros care about.
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More integrations among its products, more M&A activity, and a whole lot of growth are all on the way for the IT management vendor and its partners, according to CEO Fred Voccola (pictured) and other executives at the company’s Connect IT event this week.
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Kevin Lancaster (pictured) will continue to lead the dark web monitoring and security training vendor, which is the latest in a string of purchases by Kaseya and the first since the IT management vendor announced a $500 million funding round last week.
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Participants in the investment round, which comes amid an ongoing merger and acquisition spree by the IT management vendor, include TPG, a global private equity giant with some $103 billion of assets under management.
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