Geek Speak

Right here right now the new Acronis Cyber Platform was announced today from a resurgent Acronis. The platform solution is opening Application Programming Interfaces (API) plus a Software Development Kits (SDK) to developers and other stakeholders.

Our popular MSP Makeover contest has concluded and the winner is Dan Foote of DanTech in Alaska! Foote is a long-time managed services provider (MSP) and community member. He regularly attends community conferences

Forever and a day I’ve preaching the good word about having a completely updated LinkedIn profile serve as your master resume. Now for some really good news – LinkedIn has a new feature where it literally does this for you!

It’s just a simple few steps as listed below in Figure 1. Go ahead and do it now and then return for a few thoughts.

One last look back at the recent Ingram Cloud X conference concerns the Comet competition and the startup row on the tradeshow floor. Here are three geeky favorites you need to know about!

Looking for some interesting spring geek reading? Several books are suggested here for SMB Nation members to consider. More importantly, the explicit act of reading and the power it brings you are reviewed in this Tech Tuesday show on Northwest Digital News (NDN).

I’ve darn near met my match when it comes to Axcient in the reinvent/transformation category. In this interview with Jeff Cummings at Ingram Cloud X, the new Chief Revenue Officer for Denver-based Axcient connects a few dots.

If we’re anything at SMB Nation, we’re chippy! So it was a high honor and privilege to discover Pickit, a Microsoft 365/Office 365 gap filler ISV with attitude. It’s delivering a purpose built add-in that we

Talk about a blast from the past and the good old Windows Small Business Server (SBS) days! Michael Jenkin, Managing Director at Business Technology Partners Pty Ltd in Adelaide, Australia and long-time community leader (MVP, GITCA), has transformed into a security expert and a social media whiz.

Sometimes you have to raise your head from the traditional SMB managed services provider world (trees) to see the forest. IBM has deftly asserted itself in the partner security realm with an at-market Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) program unlike I've seen from other major players.

I recently hooked up with serial entrepreneur Michael Fraser about his new platform play Refactr. He’s committed to brining devops to the SMB Nation community whereby you could offer Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to your customers.

We’ve struck a nerve in the SMB Nation community with our “How To” series and we’re thankful for your overwhelming support! That said, we going to continue to stream out resources you can use to improve your lot in life as a managed services providers (MSP). And I got a secret – even experienced MSPs should revisit adding on this CompTIA certification.

Cloud computing has given small businesses access to IT capabilities that were once reserved for enterprise teams with seemingly-infinite resources.

And for a while, security was thought to be the main disadvantage of moving workloads to the cloud—