Topic: Cloud - Page 47

Get ready for a sucker punch of IT news, views, and insights. Joined by guest host Vince Tinnirello, of Anchor Network Solutions, Matt and Rich chew over IT Glue buying TruMethods, Pax8 buying Sea-Level Operations, Sophos entering the XDR market, and Cytracom adding team texting to its UCaaS solution. Then your hosts catch up with Darren Gottesmann of Ingram Micro for a look at the crazy year behind us and the “golden age” we may be entering now.

Industry-specific solutions leveraging Internet of Things technology are solving pain points and increasing efficiency and safety.

The changes to specializations, incentives, and rewards are interim steps on the road to more sweeping revisions that will take effect a year from now, and reflect NetApp’s ongoing reinvention of itself as a maker of cloud and container storage solutions.

Rex Frank (pictured), founder and CEO of the managed services consultancy, will become head of Pax8’s partner education unit, which will add one-to-one coaching services to its current lineup of one-to-many training classes.

Both offerings reward users of the company’s Microsoft Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop tools for acquiring new customers, while arming them to land and support additional ones.

Called APEX, the new solutions seek to combine the flexibility and usage-based pricing of public cloud solutions with the security, performance, and control of private clouds.

Growing even faster during the pandemic than before it, the cloud business apps leader desperately needs to attract more members to its partner program and more trained professionals to its partners, according to channel chief Tyler Prince (pictured).

Hungry for IT insights? Good, because Matt, Rich, and guest host Ro Kolakowski, founder of 6th Street Consulting, have a heaping helping for you on this episode, spanning from D&H’s new esports and gaming business unit to Intel’s outlook on the year ahead, BitTitan’s emerging “data synchronization as a service” plans, and the characteristics that make great MSPs great, according to Service Leadership’s Paul Dippell.

Erick and Rich are intrigued by BitTitan’s “data synchronization-as-a-service” strategy, certain you should do quarterly business reviews internally as well as with customers, and amused by the guy now walking from LA to San Francisco in a bear costume.

Research from ESG finds zero trust implementation helped smooth the work-from-home transition.