Topic: Cloud - Page 44

Erick and Rich discuss Nerdio’s new availability features for Azure Virtual Desktop, encourage you to get started now on your sales plan for 2022, and marvel at the big, BIG dollars to be won in Saudi Arabia’s camel beauty contest.

Recent research from O’Reilly shows organizations continue with cloud migrations and almost half are pursuing a cloud-first strategy.

The full-day virtual event armed attendees with strategies for hiring in today’s job market, securing remote and hybrid workers, making money in post-endpoint managed services, and more.

The updates, which are new to both the enterprise and MSP editions of Manager, seek to keep session hosts continuously available even when regional Microsoft Azure outages.

Three new plans unveiled today replace five earlier options, and add new capabilities like DNS filtering and automated incident response.

The Cloud Security Alliance and PCI SSC encourage businesses to identify all people, processes, and technologies that could impact payment security.

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.

This week, Erick and Rich discuss the SMB network of tomorrow, per research from Auvik, doing a little pre-holiday tax planning with your financial advisor, and an internet gaming platform that briefly accepted bets on a soccer match completed the day before.

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.