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After missing a year due to the pandemic Harry met up with Rico and Steve from Help Desk Cavalary to recap the IT Nation Conference. After a full agenda of educational classes, hallway 101, and an exhibit hall both Rico and Steve said “ It was great to be back after two years getting to see people, shaking hands and talking along side them.”
As of November 1st Microsoft changed its minimum version requirements for connecting Outlook for Windows to Office 365. Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 and later will be able to connect to Microsoft 365, however, older versions will no longer be able to connect to these services. With these changes Microsoft is hoping to improve security of it services.
As in person meetings and events resume all over the United States, many conferences are implementing another layer of health securities. To provide ease and bring confidence to attendees many conferences are introducing pre event, onsite, rapid Covid-19 antigen testing for attendees. Harry Brelsford recently attended the Acronis conference where he experienced onsite conference testing first hand.
With the Industry’s biggest show taking place Nov 10th to 12th we catch up with Ted Hulsy to see what he is looking forward to. After being away for a year due to the pandemic there are two thing Ted is looking forward to. The first is catching with people and trying to figure out where people are experiencing growth, and having success in sales and marketing.
D&H, has made some great investments in the last three months in new manufacturers services and its team. Although D&H has consistently pursued growth over the years, they are currently focused on rapid growth through significant new investments, such as nearly 50 new team members in areas like IT, cloud, XaaS, professional services, security, MSP services, and unified communications.
Texas State University realized that they had so many wonderful and exciting things that were happening related to innovation, entrepreneurship, including research and workshops, boot camps, classes, and curriculum, however, had nothing tying them together. So in the fall of 2020 they established the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in order to bring faculty,
With the oil and gas industry being the largest component of Alaska’s economy, Alaska has had to look at how they will be effected with the transition to renewable energy. As renewable energy becomes more more competitive and fossil fuel becomes less necessary many Alaskans are already making the transition to adapt to technology by using its experience,
Harry here in the zoom town of Crested Butte, Colorado, and I wanted to make a few quick fourth quarter predictions. The year has gone awfully quick, I hope you're feeling the same way. It's already q4 2021. And I'll keep it short and sweet. I'm predicting, we are going to have some real supply chain issues more than we've experienced in the past because of the pandemic.
As we wrap up Q3 and head into Q4 2021 the SMB space has shown some major changes as well as some uptick. Harry shares with us his Q3 analyst report with some insight to what happened in Q3.
Conferences use to be a place for individuals to come together to exchange ideas, network, and do business in person, however with the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen the conference industry shift. From in person events to online, and back to in person we have seen conference transform to comply with the ever changing world around it.
Legislation and regulations are consistently changing. With IT being a hot topic, many believe that regulation and legislation are coming to the MSP community. Rayanne Buchianico has joined forces with Karl Palachuk and many other IT professionals, to get involved and influence legislators to transform the industry into a profession.
When we look back over the years there have been many changes to technology and the IT channel. From break/fix to cloud computing, and in between the industry has seen some vast changes. With all of these changes many MSPs have had to evolve all parts of their business from operations, to sales, and even marketing.