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Red. You know it when you taste it, right folks? You’ll get similarly tasty insights on this week’s show, in which Matt, Rich, and returning guest host/former MSP/EOS implementer Zac Cramer discuss the news from ConnectWise’s IT Nation Connect event, Ingram Micro’s ONE conference, and Acronis’s #CyberFit Summit, all of which were visited by Rich and Hurricane Nicole in Florida this week.

Ameer Karim (pictured right) and other executives discussed those plans, a slew of additions to the ConnectWise security portfolio, and the company’s ambitious vision for its next-generation Asio platform during this week’s IT Nation Connect event in Orlando.

Perimeter 81 provides secure, comprehensive, cloud-based networking as a service for MSPs and their customers.

Announced at the vendor’s IT Nation Connect conference alongside a joint tech apprenticeship program with CompTIA, the pact gives MSPs access to Arrow’s quoting, procurement, billing, and other services from directly inside the ConnectWise platform.

The two companies plan to arm channel pros with reference architectures for designing, constructing, and supporting solutions that combine public and private 5G spectrum from T-Mobile with infrastructure and cloud products from Ingram.

At its ONE conference this week, finance exec Kelly Carter (pictured) reminded partners that cash is king in a recession, and that financing preserves cash while sustaining growth.

Todd Surdey (pictured) plans to make more Zoom products and services available through the channel, offer richer benefits to top-tier partners, and drive closer collaboration between partners and the company’s own salesforce.

On the opening day of its annual ONE conference, execs Kirk Robinson and Paul Bay (pictured left to right) said the distributor will continue investing in strategic resources like its Xvantage “digital experience” despite economic and geopolitical headwinds.

The new tools, both of which are unusual offerings from security vendors, are designed to help MSPs build and operate scalable, efficient, and profitable security service practices, according to Acronis CTO Oleg Melnikov (pictured).

Due to ship early next year, the new solution is designed to make a complex task simple enough for people without deep security expertise to understand, according to CMO Michael Callahan (pictured).