The deal is ScalePad’s latest step toward building a product family aimed at raising MSP productivity in four areas: automation, standardization, strengthening access to information, and increasing operation maturity.

At last week’s ChannelPro SMB Forum in Dallas, Fortinet’s Joel Boyd discussed plans to help partners expand sales to existing customers and future “as-a-service” offerings.

Announced on the opening day of the hardware giant’s new fiscal year, the updates are designed to accelerate adoption of Dell’s APEX hardware-as-a-service offering and create new opportunities for partners to profit from end user ESG initiatives.

The new features include a new collateral design and customization system, a mobile app, tighter integration with ConnectWise PSA, and a new module that will let users place and receive calls through third-party VoIP solutions.

Erick and Rich explain why Kaseya’s new partner program offers encouraging news for Datto partners, why pumping up your LinkedIn profile will help you win business, and why six doctors in Australia ate Lego heads for science.

The unified Kaseya and Datto partner program officially introduced this week joins further past, present, and future investments in partners, according to Kaseya EVP of Channel Dan Tomaszewski (pictured).

The two-day, in-person regional conference featured industry thought leaders and a lineup of educational sessions designed to drive opportunity for the ChannelPro audience of MSPs and VARs.

The collaboration with ASMC enables ASCII Group members to broaden their technology and service portfolio offerings.

Rae will be the cloud distributor’s first corporate vice president of community and ecosystems, following a nine-year run as head of business development at Datto.

ChannelPro editors select Paco Lebron, CEO of ProdigyTeks, as the winner of the yearly honor for MSPs and VARs who have shared especially powerful peer-to-peer business advice.