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Called EdgeConnect Microbranch, the new offering aims to help businesses extend the SD-WAN and SASE services at their main office to remote sites without deploying bulky gateway hardware or software agents.

Bring your own…pitchfork? Poodle? Pompadour? You’ll just have to listen to this week’s show to find out. Luckily for you, you’ll also hear Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Rory Sanchez, of True Digital Security, discuss the new stand-alone small business edition of Microsoft Teams, Poly’s desk phone trade-in program, research from Auvik revealing the future of SMB networking, and evidence from Sophos and Trend Micro that security vendors are all-in on cloud.

Speaking with ChannelPro during the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, both vendors said that while IT providers are gradually learning to protect cloud workloads, there’s further progress to be made.

Called Microsoft Teams Essentials, the service provides group video calls for up to 30 hours and 300 people, up to 10 GB of file storage, group chat, calendaring, and more without a Microsoft 365 subscription for $4 per user per month.

As the shift toward hybrid work arrangements continues, the network management vendor reports in newly published research, businesses are embracing simpler, speedier network architectures that rely more on Wi-Fi access points than switches and firewalls.

Providing access to the CIS security controls compliance tool from within its solution, the vendor says, will help channel pros develop detailed and comprehensive client recommendation reports more rapidly.

The deal, which comes two weeks after OpenText’s acquisition of Zix and two years after its purchase of Carbonite, is the latest step in a larger campaign to build an end-to-end “cyber resilience” platform.

A program called Renew grants vouchers to businesses looking to exchange select Poly desk phones for newer gear. The goal is to help employers meet demand for the latest phones, headsets, and cameras among remote workers returning to the office.

If you’re into tube steak and sports, this is the episode for you. You’ll like it if you’re just into managed services too, because Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Scott Beck, of BeckTek, have plenty to say about the new billing reconciliation solution from Gradient MSP, the new digital maturity scoring and data asset management offerings from ScalePad, and the addition of endpoints to Liongard’s “unified visibility” platform.

Called Billable, the new tool is designed to make collecting monthly usage data from multiple vendors and exporting it to a PSA solution simpler for busy MSPs.