Continuum CEO Michael George said the security services offered by MSPs to their clients must go beyond backup and disaster recovery to include comprehensive protection and robust remediation.
High-profile hacker Kevin Mitnick said mock phishing emails or phone calls should help inoculate customers against legitimate bad actors who attempt to pull off attacks similar to the simulations.
Continuum's two new security offerings will help MSPs customize their security profile to address specific customer threats and respond to breaches by leveraging the vendor's security operations center.
Kaseya executives said the company's new automated billing offering will dramatically reduce the amount of time MSPs have to spend manually reconciling backend Office 365 invoices.
Michael George, the CEO of MSP platform provider Continuum, which is holding its Navigate 2017 conference in Las Vegas this week, said the company and its partners will endure in the wake of the "immoral acts against mankind."
In his new job, New Signature Co-Founder David Geevaratne is committed to showing BitTitan's channel partners exactly how to leverage the platform for more than migrations to Office 365.
The Dallas-based solution provider said its SAP HANA platform has enabled a faster, more streamlined ITOA experience that allows for predictive analytics via machine learning tools.
HPE Chief Creatologist Joe Batista at the Midsize Enterprise Summit discusses midmarket workload case studies that include IoT for football fans, layer optimization for a brewery, and hyper-converged infrastructure for a biotech firm.
Webroot VP David Dufour said channel partners can get distracted by news reports around Jeep hacks and data exfiltration and lose sight of the more mundane day-to-day threats their customers face.
With one connected experience across PSA, RMM, file sync and other functions, Autotask says it frees up time for solution providers to focus on end users.
Former President Bill Clinton told Autotask Community Live that IT executives must respond forcefully to unanticipated threats while not losing sight of why they got into the business in the first place.
At the Midsize Enterprise Summit, Gartner research director Mike Cisek highlights a handful of alternative approaches IT decision-makers should consider as midmarket budget and staffing limitations continue.
Autotask's Pat Burns says the transition to the cloud and the increased prevalence of users with multiple devices have boosted the number of endpoints MSPs have to manage.
Francois Daumard, a channel executive with previous stops at Microsoft, Apple, IBM and AVG, said NinjaRMM offers a unique tool, user experience and can rise to meet the demands of the channel.
Service Channel CEO Tom Buiocchi said his company's new Decision Engine technology helps streamline business decisions facilities management professionals.
More vendors are turning to distribution as they seek the stability it brings, as well as its ability to reduce overhead costs and provide better customer service to partners, says Tim Curran at the GTDC Summit.
Hurricane Irma, which could slam Florida this weekend as a Category 4 hurricane, has solution providers reaching out proactively to make sure customers, especially the small business who depend on the channel for IT services, are ready to weather the storm.