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Who knew? Turns out Sith Lords have hobbies too. And at least one Sith shares a hobby with Matt and Rich’s guest host this week, Chris Ploessel, president of cloud specialist RedNight Consulting. Listen in as your three hosts discuss the epic merger between SYNNEX and Tech Data, reactions to that deal from Ingram Micro and D&H, and the ins and outs of security outsourcing for MSPs.

A new firewall and updated sandbox appliance, along with enhanced analytics and management tools, are designed to deliver faster performance and enable easier administration.

Capable foes have inspired the company to up its game in the past, says U.S. country chief Kirk Robinson, who sees the billions of investment dollars pouring into distribution lately as proof that there’s never been a better time to be in IT.

As two of its three largest competitors become one, the distributor will stay true to the focused vendor relationships, personal service, and private ownership that have made it a $5 billion company, according to Co-President Dan Schwab (pictured).

Assembled at Ingram’s Integration Center, the fully managed offering combines compute, storage, and BDR services in a pre-integrated bundle designed to make deploying, running, and paying for hybrid cloud environments simpler.

Knowing which security functions to outsource—and which not to—is an increasingly important skill for channel pros.

Available now at no extra cost, the new feature helps organizations identify and fix weaknesses in containerized applications at a time when use of containers is growing rapidly.

Together, the two companies will offer more than 200,000 products from over 1,500 vendors to some 150,000 customers in over 100 countries worldwide. Tech Data CEO Rich Hume (pictured) will lead the combined firm.

Thanks to some last-minute complimacations, Matt and Rich have no guest host this week and no guest interview. But that doesn’t stop them from discussing Datto’s interesmating backup deletion defense and Azure continuity solutions, plus AMD’s latest server processors and the implimacations of last year’s PPP and EIDL loans for your tax bill.

Don’t recognize a few of those words? Technically, that’s because they’re not words. They just should be.

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Part of the vendor’s “cyber resilience” strategy, the new feature guards against accidental and malicious deletion of backups by automatically syncing images from local appliances to Datto’s cloud, according to CISO Ryan Weeks (pictured).