The DMARC email protocol, highly effective against spoofing, will be implemented by big service providers in February, and with very few MSPs using it today, EasyDMARC sees it as a great opportunity for MSPs, so much so that they are ramping up MSP presence in their Go-to-Market model.
This integration, the first of several Schneider Electric has planned, was soft launched in the spring, but the real push to get partners to see its value came at the recent IT Nation event.
ConnectWise thinks adding ConnectWise RPA to Asio will be a really big deal, although they also announced a new Asio workflow automation capability, and 18 new Asio services.
Sidekick is a bot that is currently available for ConnectWise PSA, although the number of solutions supported will expand over time, providing much stronger AI capabilities than ConnectWise was able to offer before.
ConnectWise also announced that the Automation Nation event will return to the ConnectWise calendar in early 2024.
IT by Design is a Master MSP that changed their focus to be around coaching and training, dealing with MSP-specific leadership issues and how to address them effectively for both transformational and transactional leaders.
Both companies see Cork’s focus on loss control when a cyberattack takes place as highly complementary to Liongard’s Configuration Change Detection and Response services, and they are offering a discount to MSPs who sell both solutions.
While cyber insurance policies offered by RMM/PSA providers or MSP-focused vendors have grown in number in the last several years, Cork believes the way their offering works is distinct and superior.
Canadian MSPs seeing growth of 8.3 percent this year, with demand for more cybersecurity managed services leading the demand charge.
Lenovo, which is in attendance at the Intel Innovation 2023 event here in San Jose, made a very significant announcement of their own, beefing up their AI portfolio on multiple fronts at an event where AI was centre stage.
The solution, Octavia, is in the early stages of beta, and will eventually launch with both a full featured enterprise version and a free version which will not have all of the enterprise features.
Netsurion has been around for many years, but this is the first distribution deal for the MDR provider, and they chose a new company with a white glove model whose founder has already succeeded in distribution with the same model.
Veritas has updated their traditional services program, but now they have modernized it to give partners more options than in the past.
CrushBank continues its evolution beyond an AI-powered search platform with the addition of new Generative AI capabilities to their platform.
AppDirect makes another significant deal, leveraging their omnichannel Go-to-Market capabilities to bring another significant player onboard, and expand the solutions available to their technology advisor channel to sell.
Fortify, which is now part of Saas Alerts’ Manage module, lets MSPs improve their customers’ Microsoft secure scores and overall security posture, and saves them much time by allowing hordes of clients to properly configure their systems with a single click.
Auvik moves beyond their long-time laser focus on network management software with a complementary SaaS management solution that uses technology from last year’s acquisition of Saaslio.
Auvik previously sold to MSPs, who in turn sold to their customers, so a partner program was not critical, but they now sell through MSPs as well, and through other types of reseller partners.
SonicWall leverages their new firewall-as-a-service capability to put together three bundles around it, aimed at MSSPs and MSPs who meet revenue and training requirements.
Torq’s technology was designed to provide a better alternative to the SOARs in the marketplace today, and while to date they have sold in the Fortune 500, they are looking to the channel to broaden that out.
