Topic: Hardware - Page 71

Sales of client hardware through the channel rose by double digits thanks to spiking demand for work-from-home gear. Sales of storage products, however, dropped by double digits amid declining infrastructure spending.

New storage solutions from HPE, a new name for Rackspace, and a new way to stop accidentally revealing on videoconferences that you aren’t wearing pants are among the stories we took our sweet time bringing your way this week.

Enhancements in the update include an upgraded scripting engine with expanded automation capabilities and a new API that lets third-party software perform actions on endpoints instead of just monitor them.

Equipped with zero-touch provisioning and centralized remote management, the new offering reaches market at a time when MSPs and MSSPs are seeking to minimize site visits due to concerns about COVID-19.

Retrofitting legacy equipment to capture and process data can help organizations reap some of the business-changing benefits of IoT quickly and affordably.

Available now at no extra cost in select editions of Sophos’s Intercept X system for endpoints and servers, the upgraded product includes tools for detecting indicators of compromise and mitigating them through a command line management interface.

From professional arenas to college campuses and now high schools, esports is growing, creating new opportunities to manage these specialized high-tech “”playing fields.””

The integration functionality enables MSPs to view contextual data in PSA, CRM, and other external applications directly inside the unified communication vendor’s desktop app. The new partner program pays up to 30% commissions.

A new release of VMware vSphere, new return-to-work solutions from Aruba, and the cuddliest bunch of roller coaster riders in recorded history are among the many stories we’re belatedly bringing your way.

Matt and Rich have a fever, channel pros, and the only prescription is this episode. Joined by MSP, author, and improv comic Bob Coppedge, of Simplex-IT, your hosts discuss co-managed IT, Dell’s attempt to “democratize” artificial intelligence, a new managed services suite from Pulseway inspired by the coronavirus pandemic work-from-home phenomenon, and the 20th birthday of ConnectWise’s IT Nation Evolve organization, formerly known as HTG Peer Groups.