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.
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For networking, VPN, and threat protection capabilities, the FLEX series of UTM gateways may very well be the cure your SMB customers are looking for in a post-COVID world.
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Dynamic path selection functionality in the new release lets SD-WAN users failover to a backup network connection automatically when performance drops below preset thresholds. Other new features include integration with the Tigerpaw PSA platform.
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Those and other updates were part of a Q4 launch wave that includes zero-touch provisioning capabilities, a new risk scoring application (pictured), two new unified threat management platforms with built-in Power-over-Ethernet, and more.
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The power management vendor’s new APC Technology Partners Initiative lets channel pros offer unified threat management solutions from Untangle, BDR software from Infrascale, and 4G/LTE failover services from Accelerated Concepts Inc. at top-tier discounts.
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The network security vendor’s firewalls can now open, close, and reopen tickets in Autotask’s PSA solution automatically. The new Firebox devices, meanwhile, offer small and home office users significant security inspection performance improvements.
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The new offering combines switches and access points from Open Mesh, a maker of cloud-managed networking gear, with Datto’s own networking appliance and management portal in an integrated package tailored to MSP business models.
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