A new study that looks at managed services business by the channel generally – not just self identified MSPs – finds quite low rates of adoption. A significant number to plan to move into security however.
UTM cloud provider MyDigitalShield just introduced a complementary SD-WAN-as-a-service offering, and are finding most MSPs know little about SD-WAN despite its potential for their businesses.
While a low price will create a minor margin opportunity for the MSP, the main MSP benefit will be the better use of their time that will come from having the ASV scan capability integrated directly in the compliance module.
SolarWinds MSP’s price to partners of $4 per endpoint in Canada is designed to allow both the MSP to make money while also being less expensive for the customer than consumer-grade alternatives.
Avast is providing the new tool free to its partners, in the belief that going forward they all need to focus much more on security than many have in the past.
eFolder’s top execs outline why they think the merged company can take on the market leader, and how they intend to execute on their strategy.
The new bundles are part of new As-a-Service offerings for their AuthAnvil and Traverse products, and are designed to help Kaseya MSPs get more proactive and aggressive about selling these.
SonicWall CEO Bill Conner discusses the company’s improved metrics since independence from Dell, including some significant ones on the channel front.
Ottawa based Corsa makes a high-performance SDN platform for high capacity networks, and have recently added a network security platform to mitigate DDoS attacks.
The BackupAssist-as-a-Service program for MSPs makes the Australian-headquartered company a much more forceful player in the North American MSP market.
Originally an Office 365 management tool, ConnectWise added Azure management last year, will have Cisco management capabilities by the fall, AWS soon after that, and more coming down the road.
The latest Pax8 ConnectWise integration has optimized their interface within ConnectWise Manage to reduce the clicks in ordering, updating and linking cloud subscriptions.
Neal Bradbury of Intronis discusses data protection for MSPs in the post-WannaCry world in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
Altaro, which is focused largely on Hyper-V and the SMB market, has launched both a new MSP program and a free multi-tenanted console to manage it.
The new services for MSPs are around the Barracuda NextGen Firewall and Barracuda Backup Appliance, with the firewall service thought likely to generate the most demand.
The present ClearSky partner ecosystem includes both MSPs and traditional reseller partners, and they are looking to increase the numbers of both.
Kaspersky continues to build out the MSP Partner program that it formally launched in April.
BackupAssist has timed a new channel initiative in North America with Version 10 of its software, which adds several enterprise grade features to its SMB-focused solution.
Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda offers MSPs advice on how to help customers stay safe in the age of WannaCry and other ransomware attacks.
SaaS-based Workspot is creating the new channel program specifically for cloud-focused partners, following the strong growth of their business this year around Microsoft Azure.
