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Y'all can't take it with ya - you heard it here first! Just made the largest donation in my company (SMB Nation) history minutes ago to a not-for-profit that collects computer equipment and refurbishes and distributes to under-served families (especially with kids using online education).

LG Business Solutions USA has introduced a new Thin Client models offering businesses and their employees superior performance, data security, reliability and cloud-ready connectivity for any work environment, from the trading floor to the

D&H Distributing announces it has added Vade Secure to its growing Cloud Marketplace digital commerce platform. Vade Secure’s dedicated offering for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) enhances D&H’s suite of hosted solutions for resale, allowing MSPs to deliver additional value, justify higher margins, and affect better monetization of their service offerings.

SMB Nation Webinar Thursday, June 11th, 2020

Presented By: Harry Brelsford and Panel

 Let’s face it. The COVID-19 pandemic is going to determine technology winners and losers like every recession does. We are predicting one of the winners and an opportunity you need to double-down on NOW is the Internet-of-Things. Why? Because the foundation for IoT is to reduce costs and increase safety.

June 16th 11:00 AM PST

Time to think anew and discover overlooked opportunities as Managed Services Providers (MSPs)! Did you know the following?

YOU CAN sell more solutions by adding even more value to your customers with often overlooked design and project

To enable  partners to adapt to the new market conditions, and in place of Wingman2020, Pax8 has developed the Wingman Webinar Series that covers everything from how to keep remote workers secure while maximizing productivity, to deep dives

SMB Nation Webinar Tuesday, June 9th, 2020

Presented By: Harry Brelsford and Panel

 Finally, we are seeing the marriage between voice and data. The surge in online conferencing solutions (10x in the pandemic) has fundamentally changed the way we work. We discuss basic features and functionality of different online conferencing solutions; security and the panel will share real world MSP experiences in the communications revolution. Also expect this lecture to almost be a capstone that integrates the leadership, security, devices and productivity/collaboration “legs of the remote worker stool” as a communication infrastructure foundation.

Spoiler alert! I’m using the pandemic remote work scenario to discover and engage with a couple worth passion projects! Watch as I’m joined by Kim Cecchini and Linda Reinstein, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) Co-founder

SMB Nation Webinar Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Presented By: Harry Brelsford, Grace Schroeder, and Michael Fraser

As a follow-up to the first lecture on leadership, culture and management, this session speaks towards productivity and collaboration approaches.

SMB Nation Webinar Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Presented By: Harry Brelsford , Scot Henley , Susan Krautbauer , Daniel Bartholomew

The coronavirus COVID-19 matter is possibly the ultimate Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scenario (in many cases). In this panel discussion, we review the role of BYOD in terms of reliability, quality assurance and productivity. Then we talk about the hardware refresh opportunity from both an MSP and OEM point-of-view that MSPs can capitalize on. Next we visit with a not-for-profit about where to recycle and redeploy all of the used computer equipment that is caused both by a refresh and literally a quick trip to your business mini-storage (and that of your clients) to gather surplus equipment to re-deploy to those in need in a kind way!

Bonus – we will do some geeking such as what is the proper way to implement a Remote Management and Monitoring tool to make your support for remote workers possible?

SMB Nation Webinar Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

Presented By: Harry Brelsford, Phelim Rowe, Josh Weiss, Ryan Becker

 First and foremost, it’s essential to set-up a cyber security safe remote office for your own employees and your customers as an MSP. In this session you will be advised of different resources to download and use as you start your stay at home, stay safe and stay SECURE initiatives.

Calling all managed service providers (MSP) who want to efficiently make security a focal point of their portfolio and ensur their business can meet client expectations for data, applications, and systems security and protection.  If this is you be sure and check out Acronis's Cyber Protect, an innovative new cyber protection solution that integrates backup, disaster recovery, next-gen anti-malware, cybersecurity, and endpoint management tools into one service.