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Cybersecurity predictions for 2021

Cybersecurity predictions for 2021

Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic pretty much dominated everything, which created many challenges for MSPs. What does 2021 hold in the realm of cybersecurity? Unfortunately, perhaps more of the same, according to Hussain Aldawood, Director of Cybersecurity, for Saudi Arabia-based...

/ January 14, 2021 / 1 Comment
Pioneers in Tech: The ENIAC Six

Pioneers in Tech: The ENIAC Six

On Feb. 14, 1946, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert unveiled one of the U.S. Army’s best-kept secrets of World War II: the ENIAC. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was built behind closed doors in a restricted area at...

/ January 8, 2021 / 1 Comment
New AWS services optimize application development process

New AWS services optimize application development process

Amazon Web Services (AWS) consistently introduces new services, enhances existing ones, and drives trends that all contain technology, capabilities, and information of great relevance to MSPs. In the first half of 2020, AWS announced a significant number of developments that...

/ November 23, 2020 / 1 Comment
Organizations need WFH help from MSPs now more than ever

Organizations need WFH help from MSPs now more than ever

Many organizations are just now starting to come to terms with the inherent challenges with supporting employees as an anticipated second wave of COVID-19 infections appears to be all but inevitable. A survey of more than 100 C-level executives and...

/ October 7, 2020 / 1 Comment
Managing by the numbers: 3 KPIs for your MSP sales process

Managing by the numbers: 3 KPIs for your MSP sales process

Are you trying to decide whether or not you would like to engage with a sales and marketing vendor? Are you considering hiring a telemarketer, hiring a social media manager or hiring a sales rep? Maybe you are trying to...

/ August 10, 2020 / 1 Comment
Unified communications: pointers for a permanent remote workforce

Unified communications: pointers for a permanent remote workforce

As COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are gradually lifted and states begin to return to some semblance of everyday life, we shouldn’t assume an automatic return to the office. Businesses across the globe have learned during the pandemic that their workforce is...

/ August 4, 2020 / 1 Comment
Ask an MSP Expert: Should I monitor my employees?

Ask an MSP Expert: Should I monitor my employees?

Q: Due to the pandemic, my MSP’s employees are now working remotely. I don’t like the idea of “spying” on my employees, but I also miss being able to pop my head in someone’s office to chat and check on work....

/ July 27, 2020 / 1 Comment
Salesforce Research: Workers see a hybrid work/office future

Salesforce Research: Workers see a hybrid work/office future

Employees are starting to return to the office, either partially or fully depending on their unique situations, and as an MSP you might be seeing that happen with your customers. This begs the question what will going back to the...

/ July 20, 2020 / 1 Comment
Your MSP isn’t all about price

Your MSP isn’t all about price

As someone who spends a lot of time talking and writing about how managed services providers (MSPs) need to make their messaging all about the raw value they’re able to offer their prospects, I hear a lot of people say...

/ July 14, 2020 / 1 Comment
Whirlwind project MIT
Tech Time Warp: A Technological Whirlwind at MIT

Tech Time Warp: A Technological Whirlwind at MIT

July 4, 1956, doesn’t quite rank with July 4, 1776, in terms of independence, but it was a remarkable day in terms of freedom for computer users—freedom from punch cards, dials, and switches, that is. On July 4, 1956, researchers...

/ July 3, 2020 / 1 Comment