Essential KPI reports you need to become a data-driven MSP  

In this guest blog, Gaidar Magdanurov, president at Acronis, offers his thoughts on the performance indicators MSPs should closely monitor to optimize their business.

Sage looks to improve SMB skills around carbon reporting with extended AWS partnership

The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.

Intel looks to accelerate AI at the edge with new Edge Platform

Intel’s new Edge Platform offers an easier path to introducing, running, and managing AI applications at the edge, and the company stresses it’s looking to build an open edge ecosystem.

Vulnerabilities in business VPNs under the spotlight

As adversaries increasingly set their sights on vulnerable enterprise VPN software to infiltrate corporate networks, concerns mount about VPNs themselves being a source of cyber risk.

Sage enhances AI vision and portfolio with major announcements at Sage Transform

Sage emphasized that this year’s Transform is a very important one, because of key changes, particularly around AI, that will greatly improve customers’ lives and productivity.

New Gen AI additions to PCs, and new Gen-AI based services highlight Dell MWC announcements

Dell Technologies is hardly alone this year at emphasizing its hardware-focused announcements at Mobile World Congress, but they think the broadness of their impacted portfolio and services will deliver an advantage.

Sage makes key AI announcement at Sage Transform around Sage Copilot

Sage Copilot is a new AI-based productivity assistant, whose AI has been specifically trained around accounting rules and best practices, and which is designed to help SMBs make better business decisions.

Intel: AI-enabled PCs reframe selling around experiences, not specs

Additional flexibility from the debut of the NPU will improve PC efficiency and drive better user experience, the chipmaker says as it eyes a big PC refresh year.

Five ways cybercriminals use AI to wreak havoc

With the advancements in generative artificial intelligence, cybercriminals have been handed a powerful new set of tools.

Deepfakes in the global election year of 2024: A weapon of mass deception?

As fabricated images, videos and audio clips of real people go mainstream, the prospect of a firehose of AI-powered disinformation is a cause for mounting concern. Find out more in this ESET guest blog.

Intel lays out foundry vision and announces Intel Foundry

Intel CEO announced the creation of Intel Foundry, which with Intel Products now becomes two symbiotic parts of Intel, and also announced a new partnership with Arm, which Intel said is now their most important.

Prosimo strengthens multi-cloud network stack with Generative AI and Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking

Prosimo’s AI Suite for Multi-Cloud Networking closely resembles their core product that the startup has sold the last few years, Multi-Cloud Networking for AI ,has been beefed up with the addition of Generative AI, while the other suite component, Nebula AIOps for Multi-Cloud Networking, is new with this release.

Infoblox strengthens DNA capability of BloxOne Threat Defense with new SOC Insights solution

SecOps Insights extends DNS capability to the InfoBloxThreat Defense platform, a move that InfoBlox says has strong appeal to customers and will make it easier for partners to keep them for life.

Password Manager vendor 1Password to build out channel with new global partner program

Toronto-based 1Password has more than 100,000 customers, including 25% of the Fortune 500, but have done this with a minor channel presence, so they are building a channel program out, which will include support for MSPs for the first time.

VMware end to free ESXi opens up new options from spurned customers and partners

While these major changes are not good news for developers and SMBs, there are still options, from the cloud to smaller hypervisor vendors like Proxmox, which has an open source hypervisor that led storage vendor 45Drives to partner with them.

D&H Distributing seeing strong new opportunities in evolving tech economy

Rapidly growing opportunities in AI are part of the reason for success in the last year and hope in the next, but more traditional areas like SMB and MSPs have also been doing well.