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Vendasta Makes ‘MSP of the Year’ and ‘CIX Top 10 Growth Companies’ Lists

The Canadian solutions provider talks lists, plans and pitfalls, and the company’s evolution and goals for the future.

Business Roundtable Mission Flips from Shareholder Capitalism to Social Good

51 CEOs ask Congress for new consumer data privacy laws; here’s what that likely means to security providers

Eightyone percent of organizations are planning on investing in Infrastructure as a Service over the next year while 60 percent plan to invest in Software as a Service solutions nbspAccording to the survey SaaS investment falls behind both investment in Security as a Service 79 percent and investment in Platform as a Service 69 percent

Channel Futures MSP501 2019 Survey & Report

In-depth analysis of the managed services industry based on the world’s largest survey of MSPs, the MSP 501. We recently released the 2019 Channel Futures MSP 501 Worldwide Rankings of the top MSPs around the globe. Winners were chosen based upon self-reported financial information such as annual revenue, recurring revenue, growth in supported devices and […]

SADA’s Fixed-Price Google Cloud Packages Seek to ‘Eliminate the Mystery’ of Cost

The MSP, which sells through Avant and Intelisys, has rolled out four packages with flat rates and dedicated timelines.

Google Cloud’s Gearhart: Cloud Prompts Changing Ecosystem of Providers

Only 20 percent of workloads globally are running in the cloud.

MSP 501 Digital Innovator of the Year: Logically

The company’s self-healing intelligent MSP platform, OpLogic, serves as mission control for its managed IT customers.

MSP 501 Newcomer Award: ZNet Technologies

The path to cloud services is fraught with many challenges.

MSP 501 Executive of the Year: Goodwin PC’s Sam Underwood

Underwood is the first non-CEO or company founder to be named “exec of the year.”

MSP 501 Profile: Business System Solutions Wins Comeback Kid Award

Diminishing eyesight forced Business System Solutions’ Bill Ooms to get his business vision in gear. Boy, did he ever.

MSP 501 Vanguard Award: Platte River Networks

Platte River Networks’ Intuition Security+ platform fulfills 95-100% of most industry security requirements.

Dellrsquos Cloud Client Computing division has added two new security solutions to its portfolio in an effort to help customers lock down all aspects of their data center The solutions called Dell Data Protection Threat Defense for Windows and Dell Data Protection Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise are being aimed squarely at companies who want an additional layer of security on top of their existing services Both solutions will be available for sale through the channel in JulyWhy Itrsquos Good

Windows 7: When End of Support Means the Start of Services for MSPs

In just a few months, Microsoft will be ending support (EOS) for Windows 7 on all client systems. The lack of updates puts organizations that continue to run this this version of Windows at a greater risk of cyberattack, application incompatibilities, federal and financial compliance risk, and more — and it presents MSPs the opportunity […]