Erick and Rich ask why channel pros aren’t talking about blockchain more, urge you to stop giving away services out of the kindness of your heart, and marvel at the people in Dallas who scanned a random QR code in the sky recently and got Rickrolled.

Themed “Protect and Profit,” the live online event featured panels on trends channel pros need to stay on top of, including compliance and liability, ransomware, cyber insurance, workplace threats, and more.

Channel pros can make money through consulting, implementation, device management, and ongoing support, as well as internal development.

A dedicated member portal is just one of five key benefits MSPs will receive by joining the Dell Expert Network, a one-stop shop and support program for managed service providers and IT consultants to help them better serve their SMB customers.

If you’re stuck at sub-10% growth, your enthusiasm and your tax responsibility are considerably decreasing, making it a great time to sell.

Featuring Windows 11 SE, designed for K-8 students, the Dynabook E10-S gets a good report card for being rugged and responsive.

In this report, Redstor examines how Microsoft 365 is not intended to include an all-encompassing backup solution. A simple recovery can be a massive problem if data has fallen out of the retention period and Microsoft 365 has deleted it forever. You can avoid this with a data management and protection service that allows you to set your own retention policies very easily and whose sole purpose is to ensure that your data can be recovered directly back to Microsoft 365, regardless of the state of your live data.

Let’s face it, it’s a pretty tough gig today for MSPs with growth performance under the spotlight. While the overall managed service market is growing, and many MSPs secured new business during the pandemic as they helped companies safely digitize, the market is also attracting new entrants. Many of whom have hyper-relevant, innovative, turnkey solutions and are crowding out established players.

Erick and Rich explore Cytracom’s bold move into secure networking, explain why watching Google for local ransomware stories can help MSPs land new business, and question why anyone would want to take their house plants with them on vacation.

The two-day event features thought leadership and educational sessions designed to keep IT solution providers at the forefront of cybersecurity.