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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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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The networking vendor has a plan for helping channel pros stop their customers from buying access points and switches themselves online, and it’s all about managed services.
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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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Post-Halloween goodies from Intel, nonprofit industry software from Microsoft, and the fastest, easiest Thanksgiving dinner recipe ever invented are all among the stories we’re just now telling you about.
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Join Erick and Rich as they ponder Zyxel’s disruptive entry into the SD-WAN market, the value of holding strategic company retreats, and beer for dogs. Yup, you read that right. Beer for dogs.
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Available for as little as $149 a year, the new add-on for the networking vendor’s ZyWALL VPN firewalls (pictured) lets users run voice and video traffic across the same internet connections they use for everything else without compromising performance.
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New hardware and OS software from Microsoft, print and security goodies of various kinds, and historical proof that the pumpkin spice craze really IS getting old are among the stories we’re just now telling you about.
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This week Erick and Rich (plus Erick's Amazon Echo, in an uninvited cameo appearance) discuss WatchGuard's new AI-powered firewall OS, the secrets to onboarding managed services clients profitably, and a disruptive new service called Amish Uber.
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The new patch management, threat security, and endpoint detection and response offerings are the latest additions to the vendor's MSP Security Suite.
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The Zyxel USG40 Unified Security Gateway and GS1920-24HP Smart Managed Switch make an appealingly out-of-sight, out-of-mind SMB networking tandem.
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