Analytics/Analysis

Alexander Klimburg’s speech at Black Hat was well received and combined hacking, security and geopolitical topics. In this 1:1 interview after his presentation, Klimburg shares the six stages of cyber warfare and much more.

Esteemed IT analyst Frank Ohlhorst weighs in on Azure. He shares a couple important points starting with Azure evolving as a service (more and more capabilities are being added all the time).

Join us as we double-click down into the hottest vertical opportunity in 2019+++. Discover how in 90-days you can add the CBD vertical to your managed services provider (MSP) portfolio of services. This vertical opportunity is both very serious and complex.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Show us what you’ve got and you could be a Microsoft 365 Hero. Nominate yourself or someone else you think is a “hero” in the Microsoft 365 world. This is your chance for global community validation and

Long-time industry player Laura Steward hosted Harry Brelsford recently to ask deep and meaningful questions about his new book “How to Be an MSP – Volume 1: Vertical Edition” on her thoughtful show

Wow – I’m a mere student of capitalization tables (“cap table”) but Kaseya has blown up the perceptions I had about the SMB MSP area. At it’s recent Kaseya ConnectIT event, it announced another investment round it has completed an investment of more than $500 million to accelerate

One year later since his appointment to Vice President, North America Channels, Lenovo’s Rob Cato reflected on the past year of rapid transformation and offered visibility into the year ahead. Talking with us at the Lenovo Accelerate 2019 conference, Cato shared that while Lenovo got its mojo back

What’s Ted Hulsy up to now? From SonicWall forward, Hulsy has been a friend of the SMB Nation family. Fast forward and Hulsy is Global Head of Channel Marketing (he just crossed one year in his gig).

We live in a SaaSy world where every morning you are often greeted by user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) surprises on your favorite platforms. This Monday morning turned out to be one of those days.

Seemingly over the weekend, LinkedIn got emotional.

Love ‘em or not – events *still* have a place in our small and medium business (SMB) technology space. Surviving the test of time – events are the one place to build professional relationships the old fashion way and you can “swipe right” in real time to grow your community contacts.

My new book reflects “right here, right now” strategies new and existing Managed Services Providers (MSP) can immediately implement in a technology services market showing signs of maturity (e.g. consolidations and commoditization). The secret is verticalization and this book is focused on the fastest growing vertical

In a recent chit-chat at IT EXPO in Fort Lauderdale, FL, I pulled Michael Slater, Technical Solutions Manager (PBX, UCaaS) from his busy SherWeb booth to discuss evolving partner demographics.

The context was what was the basic demographic at the show but his insights extend further into the industry itself.