Geek Speak

The fifth iteration of DattaCon is well underway with over 1,000 partners attending. It’s grown significantly in part because it has a major reason for being – the underlying Datto technologies that the partners want to learn more about.

This morning’s slew of keynotes featured CEO Austin McChord making a variety of announcements. Most made perfect sense with respect to a portfolio product roadmap. I question one initiative and I’ll get to that in a moment. 

Long-time SMB Nation readers will recall my mobile phone journey from Apple to BlackBerry to Windows Phone. Today I’m limping along with an aging Nokia 1020 that I originally purchased for its state of the art camera (40+ megapixels). That’s right

One of the jewels at the recently completed Lenovo Summit (Orlando, April 2017), hardly hidden, was the Lenovo Tech Wheels truck. It represents the initial on-the-road outreach by Lenovo to tell it’s story to the people, one truck stop at a time.

Looking back at the recent Lenovo Accelerate 2017 event in Orlando, I thought one executive conversation might be a fun exercise in letting the evidence take us where it leads us. Let’s get started. If you are an MSP starting up or starting over, Lenovo might be a good fit.

Sammy Kinlaw, NA Channel Chief
Kinlaw is someone who takes fun seriously,

By: Gloria Kopp

Of course you want to find the best, most qualified freelancers to do the jobs you need done. No one sets out looking for the second or third best person to work for them.

Last quarter I reported from the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership (PWL) Conference 2017 in Las Vegas. Now I want to check-in again on IBM’s efforts to transform and improve its channel partner program.
In the Box

Think of a box having four-sides. That is how IBM essentially communicated the