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Technology is embedded in just about everything we do – from starting our cars to mobile orders at our favorite coffee shop to connecting with colleagues and clients. As an aspiring or current technology professional, you can choose from a wide range of opportunities. †In the United States alone, there are about 750,000 tech jobs that go unfilled each year …. mostly due to a lack of qualified candidates. With the right skills and a learning mindset, one can having a thriving career.

Technology is embedded in just about everything we do—from starting our cars to mobile orders at our favorite coffee shop to connecting with colleagues and clients. As an aspiring or current technology professional, you can choose from a wide range of opportunities. In the United States alone, there are about 750,000 tech jobs that go unfilled each year, mostly due to a lack of qualified candidates. With the right skills and a learning mindset, one can have a thriving career.

In this issue: Smart Things, Smart Partners | Cloud Management Pain and Relief | Review: Acer Travelmate P614 | Answers on PPP and EIDL | Diversity Focus: Beyond the Office

Erick and Rich discuss the latest news from Datto on its post-IPO plans, urge you to do performance reviews with your employees at least quarterly, and ponder why anyone would want to take up the world’s strangest martial art.

Some things can only be accomplished by “boots on the ground,” as the saying goes. And if you’re Barbara Paluszkiewicz, CEO of CDN Technologies, host of the KnowTechTalk podcast, and guest host of this week’s episode, those boots will probably have very pointy heels.

Dave Sobel, host of The Business of Tech podcast, has free resources that trusted IT advisors like you can use to spread the word to your clients about employing exposure notification technology to reduce COVID-19 infections.

Erick and Rich sift through the impact of Salesforce buying Slack, provide some advice on planning ahead for 2021, and ponder how it is that 56% of remote employees can watch TV while working, per a recent Nielsen survey, and still get something done.

Wouldn’t embracing zero-trust security be easier if Fox Mulder popped up on your PC every time you were about to click a bad link? Matt and Rich think so, as does their guest host, security expert Angela Hogaboom of RSI, Cloud Girls, and the Colorado chapter of Women in CyberSecurity.

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and enterprises face many challenges dealing with remote access to critical network devices and systems. In order to manage these systems, enterprises and MSP’s need to manage access to a group of users with elevated rights. These types of users give access to both internal and vendor managed users.

Beth Burnside, owner of CMIT Solutions of Erie, talks about why MSPs need to think big, and how an early job gave her a “sweet” taste for business success.