Month: May 2020

During uncertain times, ‘all-in-one vendors’ need to step up

During uncertain times, ‘all-in-one vendors’ need to step up

The MSP world is not immune to similar syntheses and consolidation. It used to be that companies worked with multiple vendors simultaneously, deploying different products into different areas of the business and managing vendor relationships internally. This thinking has changed....

/ May 6, 2020
Financial pitfalls: COVID-19’s domino effect

Financial pitfalls: COVID-19’s domino effect

By now, we’ve all heard the term “flatten the curve,” but you might be less familiar with COVID-19’s domino effect. The domino effect refers to COVID-19’s negative impact on multiple businesses, one after the next. For instance, when one business...

/ May 5, 2020 / 1 Comment
Ask an MSP Expert: How do we protect our healthcare clients’ data?

Ask an MSP Expert: How do we protect our healthcare clients’ data?

Q: We have a growing number of healthcare clients. Maintaining their security used to be not that much different from our other customers, but with the explosion of IoT, there are so many more threats that they are susceptible to....

/ May 4, 2020 / 2 Comments
Flexera cloud report finds adoption is exploding

Flexera cloud report finds adoption is exploding

This week, Flexera released its annual state of the cloud report. One of the key take-aways is that things had been shifting quickly, even before the pandemic forced many companies to adopt the cloud much faster than they might have...

/ May 4, 2020
Tech Time Warp: Michael Dell launches his empire from a dorm room

Tech Time Warp: Michael Dell launches his empire from a dorm room

Think back to your freshman year of college and the activities that ensued in your dorm room: Cramming for tests? Late night pizza? Perhaps some partying? Great memories, right? At least until you compare your freshman year experience to Michael...

/ May 1, 2020 / 6 Comments