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This week’s Northwest Digital News “Tech Tuesday” segment dives into the recent Ziff Davis B2B acquisition of Austin-based Spiceworks. I also review the SpiceWorld 2019 conference – the funnest technology conference in our industry (hey – 2,500 attendees can’t be wrong!).

Liongard’s Vincent Tran represents the spirit of the exposition hall at IT Glue’s GlueX 2019 conference in Scottsdale. This right-sized conference has a vendor hall that makes sense. Each sponsor somehow, someway truly integrates into IT Glue.

This contribution from Michael (MickyJ) Jenkin is very special. It’s a case of while the cat is away; the mice will play! Jenny and MickyJ filmed the rogue conversation while harry was gone. The content is a solid and the new format is worth the view alone!

It wouldn’t be the dog days of summer without a chit-chat with contributor (and fellow MSP) Denis Wilson. He reveals his secret to social selling success to attract new clients (he’s grown a prospect base using these tactics.

The proverbial lost opportunity appears to have been found. Forever and a day, smart minds have struggled with how to right size Azure consumption for small businesses.

Contributor Michael Fraser (CEO, Refactr) joins us for a security double-click. This month with discuss a range of topics that fall under the auspices of the Microsoft Trust Center: Audit and review, compliance plus a look at how data is protected,

SolarWinds executive John Pagliuca, EVP, SolarWinds MSP reveals several things in this interview including an update on the conference demographic (a record 500+ delegates attended). His talking points:

Learn how customers pushed the MSP into the security realm. “I’m a big believer in getting into whatever your customers want to get you into.” Denis Wilson (California MSP and Microsoft 365 Nation contributor) shares early in the interview.

There’s a different vibe at Empower this year and I was struggling to put words to it. The conference has grown into an intimate 500-attendee event with a purposefully restricted tradeshow hall. This is a lecture content-based event with an

It’s a double hitter with contributor Denis Wilson this month. He’s on a tear publishing heaps of articles. Topic one is “Google Ads Now Steal Information” and topic two is “12 Email Clients Found To Have Serious Flaw.”

Jason Green from Trustifi spends a few minutes with Harry at the recent Black Hat security conference to explain how to save time implementing email security. You could take many hours to do it yourself inside the Microsoft 365

Contributor Larry Doyle has figured out an interesting way to take a summer vacation cycling across Europe yet still staying in touch with the Microsoft 365 Nation! (Full disclosure: his trip is partially sponsored by StorageCraft,