An old friend of the SMB MSP community has recently raised its hand to say “hello” again. Thst friend is Fortinet. What I like about Fortinet is that it let’s its results do the talking. Kinda like the old Northwestern Mutual insurance company TV ads (remember the “quite company” – yeah – kids won’t get that).

Atera, developer of the cloud-based IT automation platform that combines Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM software), Professional Services Automation (PSA), and remote access into one powerful solution, today announced that it has partnered with Webroot ,the market leader in next-generation endpoint security and cloud-based collective threat intelligence. The partnership will offer managed service providers (MSPs) a seamless integration of Atera’s MSP software solution and Webroot’s next-generation endpoint security powered by cloud-based collective threat intelligence. 

“With the increased threat of ransomware attacks,

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Our own Grant Thompson, Chief Storytelling Officer on the Tour de Cloud roadshow and Solutions Architect at MG Technology Group, is at Microsoft Ignite this week. On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a new partnership with Adobe.

Azure is now the preferred cloud platform for Adobe cloud services and Adobe is now the preferred provider of cloud based creativity tools.

The significance of this relates to Dynamics 365 (CRM). As Microsoft Azure grows and expands capabilities - including analytics, it is set to be one of the most powerful sales, marketing and business tools available. Adobe has the leading suite of creative tools.

This partnership will create a platform for data-driven sales and marketing capabilities.

"The two companies are collaborating on data integrations to ensure customers can easily work across Adobe Marketing Cloud and Dynamics 365 business applications, leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and advance analytics. Customers will be able to use these integrations across Adobe and Microsoft solutions. The underlying data models will be extensible to enterprise customers, as well as third-party developers and partners, which will foster innovation and development across a shared ecosystem."

Once again I see the cloud bringing two tier enterprise solutions to the SMB affordably. Dynamics integrates with Office 365 and also has the ability to easily integrate with social media, email and other marketing channels.

IMPORTANT: If you are attending Ignite in Atlanta, Grant is hosting a community roundtable at 4pm Eastern on September 28th in room C206. Meet him outside. This is your chance to offer community feedback that will be communicated to Microsoft via the back channel - where stuff really gets done! 

 Be sure to attend the Tour de Cloud workshops being delivered across the USA this fall. Grant is the lead instructor. More details at www.tourdecloud.com - editor 

How Trend Micro Embedded itself in the SMB community

As the security conversation shifts to address new attack vectors, it’s helpful to reflect on where we’ve been and who has been there with us. Starting well over a decade ago, a much smaller Trend Micro raised its hand and said “I’m all in” for SMB partner community participation. This was a time when its occupied only part of a building in Cupertino, CA. Fast forward the movie and today Trend Micro is a much larger and highly successful security company that hasn’t forgotten where it came from.