Business Doesn’t Stop for COVID-19: MSP Preparedness in Times of Crisis

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to organizations across all industries and all corners of the globe. But while the unknown is scary, business can’t grind to a halt — which is why now more than ever, managed service providers must play a vital role in keeping their clients moving forward. Whether as a trusted advisor to your customers or as a potential advisor to new clients, this is your time to shine. But seizing the opportunity depends on making sure your MSP is immune to the unexpected disruptions and dangers that may lie ahead.

Join Channel Futures Contributing Editor Michael Otey and UnitrendsMSP Director of Business Development Alex Courson for this in-depth discussion of the essential considerations to IT preparedness. Topics include:

• Protecting data in remote workforce environments
• Managing new security threats to edge data
• Staying resilient in moments of data center inaccessibility
• Avoiding common backup failures to ensure successful recovery

BONUS! For World Backup Day, all attendees will be eligible for a $100 Amazon gift card, and a 50% OFF for a UnitrendsMSP Cloud Backup.

Speakers:

Michael Otey, Contributing Editor, Channel Futures

He is a senior contributing editor for Channel Futures and SQL Server Pro and is president of TECA Inc. a technical writing, content creation, software development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon. Michael is a former SQL Server Microsoft MVP. He was also Senior Technical Director and lab manager for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Pro where he performed numerous hardware and software product reviews. He covers the topics of data center, SQL Server, Windows Server, virtualization, hardware, storage, Azure, the hybrid cloud, systems management, VMware vSphere, containers, and PowerShell. Michael has written hundreds of technical articles and dozens of technical books. He does frequent webcasts and is a regular presenter at IT/Dev Connections and other technical conferences.

Alex Courson, Director of Business Development, UnitrendsMSP
With over 13 years of bridging marketing and sales of enterprise software solutions, Alex Courson has become an adept speaker and strategist for both MSP and Enterprise organizations.  She has helmed global teams and go to market plans covering User activity monitoring and security forensic software since 2012 while providing strategy to a variety of clients.  She has held leadership roles at Veriato, Kore,  Pilixo, Spanning, and now serves as the Director of Business Development for the Kaseya backup and DR suite.