Analytics/Analysis

Harry Brelsford joins Kevin Hunter on Northwest Digital News for a TechTuesday segment for part two of a two-part series to review Forrester principal analyst Jay McBain’s “What I See Coming For the Channel In 2020” report.

DD Dasgupta, Vice President, Marketing, SMB Products joins us for a quarterly check-in. In early March, Cisco made several announcements concerning the small business sales motion (catch our conversation about the new “button”) and product stack enhancements.

Newly appointed analyst Scott Sanders talk about his rapidly growing community called IT Business Owners Group (ITBOG) are the focus in our March 2020 meetup. Sanders shares some secrets

 Contributor Alex Fields went heads down for the first part of 2020 to revise his popular book, now called “The Microsoft 365 Business Migration and Configuration Guide: Deploying, Securing and Managing Microsoft 365 Business”

Time to get back to what we do best at SMB Nation – helping others. With our 49,500 community members who are truly feet on the street, we are working with the National Christina Foundation to rapidly scale the distribution of low-cost and no cost technology assets to solve the digital

Chaos creates opportunity. The current COVID-19 matter is an epic moment in both our personal lives and professional careers that will reset how "work" works.

In preparing this analysis – I have researched how the community of small and medium businesses (SMB), independent software vendors (ISV) and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) plus managed services providers (MSP) who are rapidly responding to, by analogy, a wartime need.

Long-time contributor Michael Jenkin weighs in from Adelaide, Australia with how, following the recent big fires, the coronavirus pandemic is impacting his business and that of his customers. Pay special attention to the interview HERE where

Community leader Scott Sanders from the IT Business Owners Group has a great (and as he says “crazy”) idea: an at-sea technology conference. We double-click down into the “411” on his late Summer 2020 conference cruise. He’ll have both

Denis Wilson, long-time contributor and analyst, talks about a City of Los Angeles cybersecurity alert service call LA Cyber Lab. Then we talk about content-based MSP marketing – work it hard

Esteemed analyst Ken Dwight, known as The Virus Doctor, has evolved his long-time cybersecurity community with a refresh. It starts with his messaging to emphasize the Malware Incident Response

Southern California-based Josh Weiss (LA Creative Technologies) brings us into the roaring 20s by revisiting outsourcing some tasks and services as a smaller Managed Services Provider (MSP).

SMB Nation’s Harry Brelsford independently reviews the new Network Discovery feature in Atera’s flagship Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) and Professional Services Automation (PSA)