AVG CloudCare™ is the free cloud-based administration platform with "pay-as-you-go" services that make it easier than ever to manage and protect your small business customers. Free remote management tools, one-click service, and user activation plus easy policy deployment save you time and minimize costly onsite visits. Competitor antivirus products can be removed from all customer devices remotely with a single tick of a box. Unique sales alerts and one-click reporting will enhance your service to customers and drive sales. So now even your smallest customer is a profitable one. When making more money, lowering your costs, and saving time is this simple...
COMCAST BUSINESS
Comcast Business, a unit of Comcast Cable, provides advanced communication solutions to help organizations of all sizes meet their business objectives. Through a modern, converged fiber-rich network that is backed by 24/7 technical support, Comcast delivers Business Internet, Ethernet, TV and Voice services for cost-effective, simplified communications management.
DATTO
Datto Inc. is an award-winning vendor of backup, disaster recovery (BDR) and Intelligent Business Continuity (IBC) solutions, providing best-in-class technology and support to its 5,000+ channel Partners throughout North America and Europe. Datto is the only hybrid-cloud BDR/IBC vendor that provides instant on- and off-site virtualization of servers and workstations, achieved through its Inverse Chain TechnologyTM. The Datto product line addresses the specific needs of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The product line is comprised of Datto SIRIS, Datto SIRIS Lite, Datto G Series, and Datto GenISIS. Its solutions serve a wide range of vertical markets including: healthcare, financial, education, banking, legal, manufacturing, retail, and municipal. Datto partners with the best technology providers in the industry to deliver the most robust and seamless BDR and business continuity solutions available, including: AutoTask, ConnectWise, Kaseya, Level Platforms and StorageCraft. Founded in 2007 by Austin McChord, Datto is privately held.
DELL
Dell Inc. listens to partners and customers to deliver worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. In December 2007, Dell announced PartnerDirect, a global program that formalizes existing initiatives to help partners increase profitability and deliver greater value and choice to their customers. PartnerDirect participation is available now to channel partners in the United States and in 148 countries worldwide. In addition, Dell has launched a dedicated online portal (now available in 19 languages) where solution providers can sign up to partner with Dell and view the available benefits to partners, such as deal registration.
FORTINET
Fortinet delivers unified threat management and specialized security solutions that block today’s sophisticated threats. Our consolidated architecture enables our customers to deploy fully integrated security technologies in a single device, delivering increased performance, improved protection, and reduced costs. Purpose-built hardware and software provide the high performance and complete content protection our customers need to stay abreast of a constantly evolving threat landscape. Our customers rely on Fortinet to protect their constantly evolving networks in every industry and region in the world. They deploy a robust defense-in-depth strategy that improves their security posture, simplifies their security infrastructure, and reduces their overall cost of ownership.
HP
HP explores how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities and aspirations. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable, and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputer installations. We offer consumers a wide range of products and services from digital photography to digital entertainment and from computing to home printing. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services, and solutions to our customers’ specific needs.
INTEL MSP
Intel® vPro™ technologies and the Intel AppUp® SMB Service help MSPs open doors to customers by delivering significant IT benefits while building your potential for recurring income. Activate Intel vPro technologies and build profitable new customer relationships, even as you simplify how you perform IT maintenance. PCs powered by Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors offer MSPs a distinct business advantage by providing hardware-assisted security, enhanced performance, and labor-saving manageability (including remote monitoring and repair) while reducing downtime for your customers.
The Intel AppUp SMB Service enables MSPs to deliver cloud benefits with flexibility, confidence and a better user experience for small business customers. Intel AppUp SMB Service is a comprehensive subscription-based service for accessing locally hosted server software on a monthly subscription basis, with an innovative software delivery mechanism and a growing catalog of small business applications. Intel provides an information network for MSPs at msp.intel.com, with the latest resources to help you get the most out of Intel® technologies and services.
LENOVO
As the fastest-growing PC vendor, Lenovo is dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs. Lenovo’s business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the Company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure, and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide
LEVEL PLATFORMS
With thousands of Partners worldwide, Level Platforms is the leading provider of managed services software for IT solution providers. Our award-winning software, Managed Workplace®, services small and midsized end customers by providing everything a Managed Services Provider (MSP) needs to deliver remote monitoring and management of IT environments, including virtualized and cloud computing resources through a single web-based dashboard.
LOGMEIN
LogMeIn (Nasdaq:LOGM) provides essential cloud and mobile services to individuals, businesses, and IT organizations for remote access, collaboration, customer care, and remote IT management. These services are used by millions of people to quickly, simply and securely connect over 150 million internet-enabled devices across the globe — computers, smartphones, iPad™ and Android™ tablets, and digital displays. LogMeIn is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Australia, Hungary, India, Ireland, Japan, and the UK.
SYMANTEC
Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to help our channel partners secure and manage their customers’ information-driven world against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company.
GOLD SPONSORS
4MEDAPPROVED
The 4Medapproved.com website reaches over 80,000 medical community visitors a month and receives requests for project assistance from all over the country. Premium 4MedProNetwork members receive priority referrals for these lucrative projects, access to our professional certificate training programs and more…
AUTOTASK
Autotask Corporation provides the world's leading hosted IT business management software to streamline and optimize business processes for technology solution providers. The software integrates a broad range of critical business systems, including customer relationship management (CRM), service desk, contracts, tech scheduling, project management, billing and reporting, and provides real-time service delivery intelligence to help users understand the factors that drive their business and their profitability. Autotask is accessible from virtually any computing or mobile device connected to the Internet and features a world-class API that seamlessly integrates with the other systems and tools that providers rely on to run their businesses.
AXCIENT
Axcient is the only unified cloud platform to eliminate IT downtime and data loss, allowing businesses to focus on business opportunities, not IT risks. With the Axcient solution, businesses can store, access and protect their data, applications, and systems from anywhere, at any time, without the high costs and complexities of cobbling together point solutions. Axcient benefits include: •Reliable HP hardware for fast, onsite backups •Offsite cloud replication for disaster recovery •Local & instant cloud failover for complete business continuity •Easy-to-use, web-based management console •Award-winning Axcient Partner Program Only Axcient’s single-vendor, single-platform approach delivers a reliable, simple-to-use solution to completely eliminate IT downtime and data loss that continually receives industry recognition and praise. Axcient’s vision is to deliver this solution to millions of companies, from small to mid-sized, in every vertical industry around the world. Axcient now protects more than 8 billion files and applications in the cloud and gives businesses the peace of mind that they’ll be protected from the high costs of downtime-related loss of productivity and revenue.
CHANNEL EYES
The first free and secure, social network for Vendors and their Channel Partners to use every day. It’s kind of like Facebook, but instead of friends – it’s a filtered group of Vendor feeds on a Social Wall. Channel Partners will have a single place to see a snapshot of new channel information every day. You’ll cut through the noise and clutter because you control who you follow, filter the relevant information and build social conversations around it. Vendors, manufacturers and distributors of all types will have a single place to engage with your entire channel, targeting the right person with the right information at the right time. The net result is better engagement, sell-through, and access to potential new partners. ChannelEyes is a ridiculously simple way to organize your business partnerships, saving time and allowing you to take advantage of timely information.
CHARTEC
Is your MSP on the right track to growth but you’re just wearing too many hats in the company? Lose the extra hats and grab the one that looks good on you with CharTec – we’re more than just another BDR Partner, we’re your ticket to a smoother-running, more profitable MSP. Explore the benefits only a CharTec Partnership bring – exclusive access to the largest MSP training facility in North America along with numerous other Partner-only programs, including our exclusive BDR, all focused on your MSP success. Learn from the originals – our experience is based on developing a successful MSP over 20 years so let us pass along some knowledge, tricks of the trade, and a few hard-earned lessons with your new CharTec Partnership.
CONTINUUM
Continuum provides a leading SaaS-based managed services platform that Managed Services Providers (MSPs) use to efficiently backup, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain desktops, servers and other endpoints for small and medium-sized businesses. The comprehensive platform provides an intelligent Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution and an advanced backup and disaster recovery (BDR) offering – all integrated with an industry-leading Network Operations Center (NOC), delivering a single, unified managed services experience. The company currently employs more than 600 employees worldwide, supports over 3,300 MSPs, and monitors nearly 500,000 endpoints.
GRIDSTORE
Gridstore is the leading provider of software defined storage that turns simple NAS storage building blocks into the world’s most powerful, resilient and affordable storage without limits. Gridstore brings the era of mainframe style monolithic storage and its disruptive forklift upgrades to an end. The Grid allows your customers to start small and pay-as-they-grow to any size while growing more powerful with each additional block. Now you can effortlessly give your customers the powerful storage they demand at a price they can afford. Gridstore sells its products exclusively through a network of Value Added Resellers and Managed Service Providers. As a 100% channel-driven company, Gridstore has designed its Accelerate Partner Program to deliver high gross margins for its Partners, who are key to the success of Gridstore. Visit us to discover how your business can grow with Gridstore.
MCAFEE
McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security.
RAPIDFIRE TOOLS
Check out the world’s #1 Non-invasive IT Assessment Tools Performing IT Assessments is the best way to "sell" your services to new prospects, generate new project work with existing clients, and improve overall service delivery. IT assessments can: •uncover hidden technical issues, •reveal security risks, •identify missing assets •find misconfigured settings, and more! And now, there’s a super quick, easy, inexpensive and completely non-invasive way to do it. With Network Detective you can perform three different kinds of IT assessments – Network Assessments, Security Assessments, and Exchange Assessments – and produce compelling, branded reports that will take your IT service company to the next level. Buy It Now With Your ASCII Discount and Our 100% Money-Back Guarantee Members qualify for preferred pricing when purchasing through the ASCII Group. Use one or all modules for 30-days. Love it or your money back.
SPAM SOAP
Spam Soap is a premier messaging service provider. Founded in 2002, Spam Soap today has helped thousands of customers worldwide. With award winning technology, and one-of-a-kind personalized customer service, Spam Soap offers a range of highly sophisticated, and hosted messaging services for all your email needs. Whether it's preserving business continuity, or protecting confidential information, Spam Soap provides a clean, simple and easy solution. Clean - Spam Soap's award winning technology cleans your system of more than 99.99% of spam viruses, and harmful content. Simple - Spam Soap's award winning technology cleans your system of more than 99.99% of spam viruses. Spam Soap is compatible with all systems and requires no software or hardware to manage install or configure. Easy - Spam Soap's Clean Team provides a level of personalized service that is unparalleled in the industry.
STORAGECRAFT
StorageCraft Technology Corporation is a premier software company focused on helping you backup fast and recover faster. StorageCraft® develops best-in-class backup, disaster recovery and system migration solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for systems in your computing environment. Located in Draper, Utah, StorageCraft was founded in 2004. Our award-winning ShadowProtect® line of backup and disaster recovery software benefits both enterprise and small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and our network of certified partners, including managed service providers (MSPs), value-added resellers (VARs) and authorized distributors.
TESTUDODATA
Our reseller network includes over 700 value added resellers who provide cloud-driven security, email, collaboration, and productivity services. Our philosophy is unique: our reseller partners come first. We truly align with our resellers and their customers to negotiate with vendors for the best products and deals. Our focus means that our team works diligently to ensure that our reseller partners receive personalized support to grow their business. In addition to providing top cloud services at excellent prices, we provide knowledgeable and friendly technical support and experienced sales and marketing support. TestudoData is Cloud Distribution with a Difference.
VAR DYNAMICS
Selected as the “Best New Technology” at MSPWorld 2012, VAR Dynamics enables IT Service Providers to quickly and easily launch new Cloud services. Starting with Hosted Microsoft Exchange, VAR Dynamics provides white-label cloud services that Partners can deliver under their own brand. Most importantly, VAR Dynamics has done much of your “heavy lifting” upfront. Its ReadyNow Program provides pre-built, customizable business tools that partners would otherwise have to build themselves to market these services. ReadyNow tools include your own branded Control Panel, TOS and SLA agreements, a Proposal generator, pre-built web marketing pages, a Support Website and more…all white-labeled and automated for Partners. VAR Dynamics sells exclusively through the channel. Selected as the “Best New Technology” at MSPWorld 2012, the company’s platform of hosted services is architected from the ground up for ease of use and includes Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft SharePoint, email encryption and archiving and more.
VERTICAL AXION
Vertical Axion is a done for you Internet marketing solution. This exclusive program was built from input of ASCII members by an ASCII member. Vertical Axion’s sole purpose is to improve Internet marketing for small to medium sized business through website design, online marketing, and unique blog content that brings more clients to a company. We strive to find technology solutions that grant business owners the ability to grow their own company through lead generation and brand awareness. The team at Vertical Axion consists of expert developers, graphic designers, and writers that are devoted to empowering small and medium business owners. When a business is struggling to grow or the growth just isn’t fast enough, Vertical Axion can help achieve their goals without high costs and delays.
WASP BARCODE TECHNOLOGIES
Since 1994, Wasp Barcode Technologies has helped small businesses improve productivity, increase efficiencies and add profitability. Wasp offers complete solutions with a mix of integrated software and hardware that is easy-to-use right out of the box. Wasp prides itself in offering complete solutions to solve asset, inventory, employee and POS tracking needs. Centered on four core software solutions, Wasp offers integrated scanners, mobile computers, printers, time clocks, along with an array of add-on components, printer media and accessories. Wasp products come standard with a 30-day money-back guarantee and free tech support for life of their products. Headquartered in Plano, TX, Wasp offers products in NA, Europe and Australia through leading retail stores, direct catalog retailers, and an expanding host of VARs enrolled in their WaspLink™ partner program. The Wasp Partner Program is a great resource for those interested in receiving favorable margins and obtaining additional leads.
WATCHGUARD
WatchGuard is moving security forward with its best-in-class, award-winning hardware and software next-generation firewalls, and messaging and content security solutions that provide extensible network, application and data protection. Providing unparalleled network visibility, management and control, WatchGuard solutions are easy to set-up, use and manage, which eliminates the challenges of protecting IT assets, giving businesses more control. WatchGuard’s broad product line delivers flexibility and deployment options designed to protect against application and network threats through its award-winning hardware and software. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program.
SILVER SPONSORS
ALTEVA
Alteva is a leading cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) solution provider for the enterprise market space, offering hosted VoIP and Microsoft Communication Services (Exchange, OCS and SharePoint), fixed mobile convergence and advanced applications for PCs. Alteva is a subsidiary of Warwick Valley Telephone Company (NASDAQ: WWVY) (referred to as WVT Communications Group).
ATS PROCUREMENT DIRECT
ATS Procurement Direct offers managed service providers and IT consultants a single-source solution for the procurement of their IT Hardware and Software. Simply stated, ATSPD coordinates and oversees the entire procurement cycle from start to finish, from product quoting all the way through equipment delivery. Our integrated system grants IT consulting firms and MSP’s of various sizes, direct access to vendor certifications, competitive pricing, automated accounting and RMA recovery, without leaving the field or wasting billable hours. Our high purchasing power allows us to attain greater margins and share the savings with our Partners, therefore allowing their customers to receive the best value on hardware, software and procurement services.
AUTOPILOT MARKETING
Ready to get a company newsletter in the mail now! There’s no secret potion to newsletter marketing. The truth is, if you never start a company newsletter, it will never get done!!! That’s why Autopilot Marketing is here inspiring you to get a quality newsletter out now and keep it on track for the long haul. Autopilot Marketing is an automatic marketing tool designed specifically for managed service providers just like you. This program takes the drudgery out of preparing marketing materials such as monthly newsletters and other direct mail campaigns. After all, the best newsletter program doesn’t pay off if it never happens. We make it happen for you! Autopilot Marketing offers a full-scale solution that provides content and direct mailing services to ensure your newsletters are mailed on time every month. Newsletters have never been easier!
CA ARCSERVE
CA ARCserve® from CA Technologies is used as the foundation for building your data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery strategies. It provides comprehensive protection and recovery of physical and virtual systems, applications and data that live onsite, offsite or in the cloud. As a result, you can reduce business disruptions caused by system downtime and data loss and address demanding recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). CA ARCserve provides a wide range of capabilities that may be licensed individually, in bundles and all together with a single license.
CARBONITE
Carbonite, Inc. is a leading provider of online backup solutions for consumers and small and medium sized businesses. The company has backed up more than 300 billion files, restored nearly 20 billion files and currently backs up more than 350 million files each day. Carbonite’s Reseller Program delivers flexible account management tools for its resellers, and arms them with secure, affordable cloud backup that is easy to deploy and to manage for their clients. Resellers can offer Carbonite’s full line of Home and Business solutions through a straightforward online platform designed for convenience and responsiveness.
CYBEROAM
Cyberoam offers gateway and desktop security in over 110 countries through its UTM, Logging and Reporting and SSL VPN appliances and Endpoint Data Protection. Cyberoam’s Layer 8 Technology allows Identity-based security. Its Extensible Security Architecture supports feature enhancements that can be developed rapidly and deployed with minimum efforts. With over 25,000 deployments across 110+ countries, Cyberoam has established itself among the leading UTM players around the world, as noted in analyst Gartner’s 2010 Magic Quadrant for UTM where it is currently in the “Visionary” quadrant
DOCULEX
DocuLex offers IT professionals a partnering opportunity with IF&D services for data center managed services. Our primary facility includes over 40,000 square feet of colocation and private data space and approximately 45,000 square feet of carrier and telco hotel facilities. The Inland facilities are a Tier IV Category IV SSAE 16 certified data center, designed and developed with the needs of the mission critical end-user in mind. Services include: Dedicated Server Colocation Facility – Very competitive network internet backbone rates. Tier IV Category IV facility with N+1 power redundancy. Private data suites, caged rooms, cabinets, U-space and onsite management available. Also, a disaster recovery facility option. Virtual Servers – Dedicated virtual servers for use, when you need them, configured that way you want and easy to reconfigure at a moment’s notice. Cloud Data Storage – Added storage on-demand
EXCEL MICRO
Founded in 1991, Excel Micro is considered one of the industry’s premier Software-as-a-Service distributors partnering with leading providers of best-of-breed cloud solutions. By establishing relationships with market leaders focused on security and compliance, Excel Micro takes the burden out of having large minimum commitments, and gives resellers the opportunity to take advantage of a program built for resellers without any huge upfront costs. Excel Micro resellers have the ability to provision any of their market leading solutions for any amount of users under one universal service agreement. Excel Micro’s approach is to provide our partners with a single point-of-purchase for the industry’s top security solutions, with round-the-clock sales and technical support from headquarters based outside of Philadelphia, PA. Excel Micro does not just offer a license; we offer an experience unlike any other distributor. Contact us today to learn more about our rewarding program.
EXCHANGEDEFENDER
ExchangeDefender is a global leader in infrastructure and security management with many years of experience in the world of hosting and delivering cloud services all around the world. Specializing in email hygiene, security and business continuity, SPAM and virus filtering, web file sharing, web filtering, Encryption, offsite backups, Hosted Exchange, SharePoint and much more, ExchangeDefender distributes solutions exclusively through partners and is tightly integrated with Autotask, ConnectWise, and Shockey Monkey for service management, statistics, and accounting. Shockey Monkey was developed to provide IT Solution Providers and MSP’s a simple and efficient way to manage their business. IT businesses can attain maximum efficiency and profitability through organizational processes and workflow management. Shockey Monkey is the only FREE CRM/PSA business management solution on the market. Up to two users can utilize the solution at no cost, while businesses with more users can get the most cost effective solution in the industry.
FLEXIS
Flexis is redefining the remote services delivery model for managed services providers (MSPs) with highly customized DEDICATED teams delivered through Agile Pods. The result combines the benefits of a traditional outsourced NOC model with the direct control and flexibility of an in-house team. Build your Agile Pod with exactly the skill sets and experience levels you need. Your Agile Pod team leverages your tools and your processes which translate to complete control and seamless integration with your existing workflow. Additionally, Flexis allows you to mix and match resources over time as your requirements evolve. Agile Pods are perfect to support your managed services business or to support project work in specific areas of expertise like: servers, networking, VOIP, database and virtualization. With Agile Pods, time to value is measured in days, not months. Flexis has over six years of experience delivering dedicated remote services from our Network Operations Center (NOC). Our process, facilities and management are tuned for optimal efficiency.
GFI MAX
At GFI MAX, we eat, drink and sleep MSP software and we LOVE it. We know ASCII members do too! Everything we do is focused on helping busy IT support companies and MSPs to grow. Our customers tell us that our software isn’t a cost to their business - they see it as a revenue multiplier. We offer IT support companies and MSPs an award-winning suite of Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), Email Security, End Point Security and Managed Hosted Back Up software that’s designed for companies of any size, from the large ambitious MSP to small hungry start-ups. Our way of thinking is simple. We give you something that fits your business and that is flexible to change as you grow. We’ve made it pay-as-you-go and only for what you use. No contracts, no money down, and no quotas.
HIGHLY RELIABLE SYSTEMS
Highly Reliable Systems manufactures removable hard drive backup devices. These appliances can be used as hardware targets for a variety of cloud and local backup software. The firm will be showing new RAIDFrame products in Windows and Linux versions. Each 4 bay RAIDFrame provides up to 48TB of storage on removable RAIDPacs. RAIDPacs can be set to RAID5 or RAID 0 and used to seed cloud backups or as manually transported media. The system allows daily swap and re-mirroring of RAIDPacs to produce duplicate copies of the backup independent of the software. Mirroring in hardware happens in the background and has been certified to work with virtualization platforms like Hyper-V or VMWare, as well as backup products like StorageCraft, Symantec, and others.
INSIGHTPRM
Do you offer unique or unparalleled service to your customers? If so, we want to talk to you. Managed IT Services can be difficult to market, but we’ve developed a proven plan to win over prospects and grow your client base. InsightPRM and its subsidiary, Movemybiz.com, offer a roadmap for promoting your services with a fully-integrated marketing system that showcases the value you offer your clients. We’ll identify companies that are in a state of flux: the most likely leads for Managed IT Services. We’ll feature you as an expert in your field and give you an online platform for engaging with your prospects, so you can build trust. Finally, we’ll make it easy to nurture prospects and convert them into customers. Contact us today for a 15-minute demo. We promise you’ve never seen anything like it.
INTRONIS
Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery is a world-class cloud backup solution for the IT channel. Intronis provides the industry’s easiest-to-use secure data solution for offsite and local backup, generating a monthly recurring revenue stream for your business. Intronis offers the market’s best, deepest Exchange and SQL backup, supports virtualized environments with native VMware backup and is integrated to major solutions in the MSP ecosystem. Partners receive expert customer support from our U.S.-based team. The solution has been field tested by thousands of MSPs, and the company has been named Best Revenue Generator seven times and Best Customer Support three times by members of ASCII.
JOOMCONNECT
JoomConnect is an innovative and powerful combination of marketing solutions and platform integration designed to streamline every aspect of managed service’s operations. Founded by the Upstate New York MSP, Directive, JoomConnect has unique insight into what marketing solutions an MSP will benefit from. JoomConnect offers inbound and outbound marketing services geared toward the MSP community with offerings such as MSP blog content distribution, printed and e-newsletter services, content creation, brochure kits, SEO and marketing campaigns, and more. JoomConnect can also help to drive your marketing initiatives from planning and scheduling through printing and fulfillment. With over 10,000 compatible applications, JoomConnect’s integration platform assists in operations, such as gathering and automating sales leads, managing tracks and projects, creating client service tickets, managing billing and inventories, resource scheduling, and human resource management, and more. The development team is constantly expanding and improving the services offered by JoomConnect and have several releases planned in 2013.
MODERNOFFICE SUITE
ModernOffice Suite, ConnectWise, LabTech and Quosal, is a complete end-to-end management platform for IT Solution Providers. The mission is to create success, for you, and your clients. Quosal (quote and proposal automation) offers the ability to produce the simplest quote to the most advanced proposal. ConnectWise (Professional Services Automation) manages customers, scheduling, ticketing, time, invoicing, projects, agreements, sales, marketing, finance, procurement, reporting and more. LabTech (remote monitoring and management) focuses on automation through a powerful scripting engine and monitoring. The result? Complete insight into customer environments, and the ability to identify and resolve issues more efficiently. ModernOffice Suite: Sell, service, manage.
POCKET MBA
Based on extensive real world wisdom, the Pocket MBA was created to provide the outcomes you need immediately to be more successful. Led by world-class subject matter experts, the Pocket MBA provides unparalleled access to true winners and their combined knowledge. You will quickly discover that you have taken the first step to making more money, and increased professionalism when you apply for admission to the Pocket MBA program. It’s not who we admit that makes the Pocket MBA special and unique, it’s who we keep out. Based on the popular and convenient online learning model, the Pocket MBA ensures success with its innovative success teams approach. Loneliness and motivation aren’t a problem, as you will work closely with your peers to discover success! The Pocket MBA is a competitive program that is outcome-based and graded. You will complete assessments and case studies both individually, and as a group. It’s the best of the true MBA experience without the huge expense, time commitment, commute and hassles. Learn what you need now to immediately transform yourself and your business to greater success than you can imagine. The Pocket MBA program is a multi-disciplinary program offering several business and IT-related concentrations that are focused and applicable to the real world. Part of the Brelsford Institute of Technology (BIT) and wholly-owned by SMB Nation, Inc., the Pocket MBA is synonymous with quality, achievement and success.
QUOTEWERKS<
QuoteWerks provides the tools necessary for MSPs and VARs to efficiently and accurately prepare, manage, and deliver interactive sales quotes and proposals to their customers. With QuoteWerks you can create quotes and proposals in minutes and streamline your sales quoting process by integrating with your CRM/PSA and accounting solutions, such Autotask, ConnectWise, Outlook, and QuickBooks. Our complete distributor procurement integration will save your countless hours by enabling you to retrieve your pricing and availability, place electronic orders, and track your shipments, serial numbers, and receiving. Our product content subscription makes it easy to create visual appealing quotes with product pictures, customer friendly descriptions, accessories, and more. You can even deliver quotes through the cloud, which enables your customers to electronically sign and accept your quote, as well as make payment. Best of all, you know every time your customer views the quote.
REFLEXION NETWORKS
Reflexion provides a suite of cloud-based email security and compliance services that help organizations to protect sensitive customer information, their employees, and their intellectual property, and to comply with important government and industry regulations. Specific services include hosted email security, email archiving and e-discovery, email encryption and business continuity. The company sells its services exclusively through a global network of IT Solution Providers. All of its services are built upon a centralized management platform that enables Solution Providers easily to deploy and manage hosted services without any up-front investment in hardware or software. Additional benefits include full branding, on-demand deployment, unified diagnostic logs, integration with leading RMM and PSA tools, and no sales minimums, along with top quality technical support. Reflexion has over 8,000 customers in 45+ countries.
SALESREACH
SalesReach Software is an innovative and rapidly growing cloud computing software development company firm. We provide our clients with cutting-edge technologies and the know-how to apply them to their individual business models. All software we write runs on the world’s number 1 cloud computing platform, Salesforce.com. As a Certified Salesforce.com ISV (Independent Software Vendor) we have for years been providing reliable software to businesses in Telecom and IT throughout America and beyond. Our comprehensive services provide clients with unique technology solutions that are customized to meet the specific demands of your business. Look to our experts for strategic IT guidance, management and support that will allow you to take your mind off technology and concentrate on your core area of business. SalesReach provides cost-efficient solutions that simply make good sense.
SEARCHITCHANNEL.COM
The first resource of its kind, SearchITChannel.com offers unique, fully integrated information -- both business advice and technical guidance -- specialized for information technology resellers. Stay educated on the reseller channel marketplace with SearchITChannel.com -- the source for all of your value-added reseller news, industry analysis and information on emerging products and technologies that directly affect your business.
SMB NATION
SMB Nation is a publishing and events company, targeted at the small and medium business (SMB) channel partner/reseller/consulting/VAR community. SMB Nation spreads the knowledge of SMB technology trends through its conferences, books, SMB PC magazine, online services, and world-wide seminars and workshops. As an active participant in the technology community, SMB Nation has a long history of enthusiastic advocacy and evangelism. The SMB Nation tribe exceeds 45,000 followers worldwide. The company was founded in 1999 as Matthew\Brelsford Associates and became SMB Nation in early 2003, to promote the books and consulting services of Harry Brelsford, the author ofchampion-badges-2011-125x250 a successful series of books written for the global SMB IT consulting and reseller community. Initially the community conversations focused on Microsoft Small Business Sever (SBS), but has expanded into SMB infrastructure alternatives, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), cloud computing, and business technology consulting best practices. Harry Brelsford is a popular conference speaker on SMB technology consulting topics and sits on several advisory boards in the SMB technology industry. He also serves as the Dean of the School of Technology at Aspen University.
SONIAN
Sonian is the first dedicated Information Discovery Cloud for business and government. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily and securely preserve and discover information with no software or hardware required. Over 11,000 Legal, Audit, IT, Sales, Compliance, Finance, Executive and HR customers benefit from our ability to collect, index, search, analyze, retrieve and archive millions of emails, files, documents and data. Built upon on a true Cloud fabric of unlimited compute and storage power, we offer the fastest search and discovery and the lowest archive storage costs of any company in the industry.
SPIFFSEARCH
SpiffSearch was created with the end goal of making lives easier for sales representatives, VARs (Value Added Resellers), and their strategic vendors. Developed by industry geeks and professionals, we have used our years of experience to create an intelligent, custom built, proprietary system that is truly innovative. We have a passion for our customers and are dedicated to providing the highest level of support. Our product has been designed with the goal to add value and put additional money in your pocket.
TREND MICRO
Securing the Journey to the Cloud. As a global leader in cloud security, Trend Micro develops innovative security solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. As the largest independent security vendor, with 25+ years of dedicated security expertise, we’re recognized as the market leader in server and virtualization security and for delivering top-ranked endpoint, network, and cloud-based solutions. Trend Micro’s technology is proven to stop threats faster, provide increased performance, and give the visibility and control required to confidently share and protect data in physical, virtual, cloud and mobile environments. No matter what the security need, or how it may evolve over time, Trend Micro is the smart security choice as people journey to the cloud.
UMBRELLA BY OPENDNS
Umbrella by OpenDNS is the world's leading provider of Internet security services, enabling the world to connect to the Internet with confidence on any device, anywhere, anytime. The company’s Umbrella security service protects users from malware, botnets and phishing whether they are in the office or on the road. MSPs leverage Umbrella to lower costs by decreasing the number of malware infections by as much as 90% beyond what traditional AV can cover. At the heart of all OpenDNS services is the OpenDNS Global Network, the world’s largest Internet-wide security network, securing 50 million active users daily through 12 data centers worldwide.
VAULTLOGIX
VaultLogix is an industry leading cloud backup and recovery service provider. VaultLogix offers the next generation of offsite data protection combined with a comprehensive partner offering for IT outsourcing companies, VAR’s or MSP’s. VaultLogix enables partners to deliver a secure and cost effective online data backup service to end-users for high-margin, monthly recurring revenue. Providing 24x7 support, web portal, marketing assistance and training, VaultLogix offers the most comprehensive partner program in the online data backup industry. VaultLogix service can be integrated with most RMM solutions for premier client monitoring and PSA solutions for streamlining internal operations.
VEMBU
Vembu Technologies is an established leader in providing flexible, reliable, and cost-effective managed cloud based IT solutions, specifically, cloud storage, online backup and cloud content management for small and medium businesses. Vembu's cloud data protection solution, StoreGrid and cloud content management solution, SyncBlaze together provide an affordable platform for Managed Service Providers, Managed Hosting Providers and Value Added Resellers to boost their customer base and revenues by broadening their managed services offering to their business customers. Since 2004, Vembu’s award winning cloud solutions have delivered tangible value to over 3,500 partners worldwide who manage, protect and administer over 50 PB of business critical data
VIRTUAL ADMINISTRATOR
Since 2008 Virtual Administrator has helped hundreds of innovative I.T. organizations to step into the profitable world of managed services. Starting with a complete MSP-in-a-box solution Virtual Administrator brings premium offerings from companies like Kaseya, SonicWALL, Intronis, SpamSOAP, Live Virtual Helpdesk, and Docuwise. Mix in our personal one-on-one training and pay-as-you-grow pricing and you are able to quickly turn your business into a profitable MSP with little-to-no upfront cost. As the leading distribution partner for Kaseya’s SAAS services, Virtual Administrator can get you quickly started as an MSP, and our vast content library will make your I.T. business instantly more productive. Stop by our booth and let us show you how.
WD
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time electronics innovator and storage industry leader. Setting storage technology standards, the company’s reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives keep users' data accessible and secure from loss. Its storage technologies are deployed in a wide range of computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as in its own storage systems. From the secure platform of the company storage systems to networking products and media players, the company provides products that simplify people’s digital lives, enable their connected homes and enhance their small businesses.
WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS
Windstream offers enterprise-class cloud computing solutions powered by 23 state-of-the-art data centers throughout the nation. Our highly available cloud hosting environments are designed by our dedicated, certified operational staff and engineers—providing the industry’s most robust cloud computing and data storage solutions. You’ll get a solution that provides the level of speed, flexibility, reliability and security your customers need. •Accelerate time to market by deploying capacity and eliminating the need to set up new hardware prior to launching services. •Enhance flexibility with accessible resource allocation that readily accommodates seasonal spikes. •Increase efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications. •Consolidate, standardize and unify platforms and automating infrastructure. •Improve application infrastructure with 99.9 – 99.99% SLA and available redundancy. Our partners leverage our data centers, SSAE16 certification, and robust product offerings to provide smart solutions to their clients that are both scalable and cost effective. In addition to cloud and data center services, Windstream also offers converged voice and data solutions via our nationwide IP network.
MEDIA SPONSORS
BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE
Business Solutions magazine inspires executives of IT channel companies (VARs, MSPs, and solutions providers) to grow their businesses by teaching them how to sell new IT products and services, enter thriving vertical markets, and integrate complementary technologies. Business Solutions prides itself on being the voice of channel, offering advice on business growth from thought leaders at each level of the channel -- vendors, VARs, distributors and our own industry experts, our editors.
CHANNEL PARTNERS
Channel Partners is the country’s leading resource for communication distribution channels. For more than two decades, Channel Partners has been the undisputed leader in providing news, analysis, education and peer-to-peer networking to the indirect sales channels serving the communications industry. It is the unrivaled resource for agents, brokers, VARs, systems integrators, interconnects and dealers that provide cloud-based communications and computing services and associated CPE, applications, and managed and professional services.
CHANNELPRO: THE INSIDERS GUIDE TO SMB
ChannelPro targeted business and technology information for the IT channel. Via ChannelPro magazine and our online properties, the network delivers expert opinion, analysis, news, product reviews and advice vital to a reseller's business success. Perspectives from vendors, distributors and analysts are spotlighted daily. No other media company focuses on the SMB marketplace like we do.
MSPMENTOR
MSPmentor is the ultimate guide to managed services and the leading global destination for managed service providers. We cover the news, the gossip and the speculation — responsibly. We focus on the entire MSP community, we cut through the hype, we ignore vendor spin (or provide our own spin), and we deliver in-depth analysis of the evolving MSP industry. More than telling you about MSP platforms, our editorial content shows you how to evolve from a solutions provider to a managed service provider.
VARVID
Varvid is a video production company aimed at helping clients leverage their existing online presence by way of video case studies, live event webcasting, social media integration, and emerging online video portals. Simply put, we understand internet delivered video and the powerful role it plays as an effective marketing tool for your business. Since its inception, Varvid has produced hundreds of videos for Varvid.com, a video blog site for the VAR segment of the IT industry, as well as, dozens of testimonial videos for regional, national, and international businesses, events and trade shows. With years of experience as a VAR in the IT & Technology Industries, we understand the needs & goals of a successful business and work with you to keep your message concise, on topic and effective.
INDUSTRY SPONSORS
CARGILL CONSULTING GROUP, INC.
Cargill Consulting Groups is a thirty five year old sales acceleration coaching and consulting firm. We specialize in helping companies identify bottlenecks which inhibit their ability to acquire new revenue. We’ve learned, over the years that merely focusing on sales skills frequently fall short in terms of producing the desired effect… and increase in sales. In order to significantly increase the volume of sales that an organization generates one must identify and remove any and all sales process bottlenecks. Secondly, a top performing sales organization must craft and present messages that align with the results based needs of the marketplace. Failure to achieve this alignment is one of the primary reasons why today\’s high technology sales force produces in a sub optimal fashion. We’ve learned that our technology prospects don’t want to buy acquire or own technology. What they want are the results that technology produces. During Gil’s session, you’ll learn how to help your team quantify and present the value of the results that a relationship with you your organization and your technology produced for a customer. Cargill Consulting Group’s clients’ have documented top line increases averaging 36% and in one case a spectacular 88% increase, you can do the same. It’s all about the process, it’s rarely about the people.
CNET CONTENT SOLUTIONS' CHANNELONLINE
CNET Content Solutions’ ChannelOnline™ is a SaaS application with an ecommerce storefront that automates the complete sales cycle from quote to purchase order and is designed to give small to medium-size resellers the operational advantages of their larger competitors. ChannelOnline can cut quoting time to as little as 10 minutes, maximize margins, increase revenues and improve customer satisfaction. At the foundation of ChannelOnline is DataSource™, CNET’s premier product data, which enables an IT company of any size to give its customers the best content and catalog coverage in the industry. ChannelOnline’s strength comes from its ability to synchronize dynamic employee, customer, supplier, pricing, services, and product content into a single application. It provides integration with leading distributors, carriers, and third-party service providers. Today, approximately 2,100 reseller users in the U.S. and Canada use ChannelOnline to access critical information on over 1 million IT and consumer electronic products.
D&H
As the nation’s leading technology distributor, D&H provides a wealth of resources to empower solution providers and consultants, delivering a broad selection of SMB categories, products and applications. The company’s offerings span server and infrastructure, digital office and mobile applications, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. With over 95 years of history, D&H prides itself on creating business partnerships with an astute focus on ease-of-doing-business, relationships, knowledge, value, performance and service. This level of all-around consultative support enables their loyal resellers and integrators to recognize and accomplish their strategic goals within the market. D&H has redefined distribution with value-add services and support including ongoing educational programs, account-dedicated sales teams, free account setup, flexible financing, purchasing rewards programs, access to their team of vendor- and category-based Specialists and the industry’s most comprehensive website.
DIGITEX
Digitek Computer Products is a full service, independent wholesale distributor specializing in technology solutions to simplify business needs. Online ordering, XML interface, same day shipping, blind drop shipments, and personalized sales consultants provide the foundation for Digitek’s business partnerships. Having strategically placed distribution centers in Virginia, Illinois, and California Digitek provides quick delivery of its extensive product offerings in media, copiers, and printer suppliers to meet customer’s growing demands. Value Added Services: •Barcode labeling with 24-48 hour turnaround •Custom pad printing with rapid turnaround •Shrink wrapping available to create unique packaging •In-house rapid response bid desk
LIFEBOAT DISTRIBUTOR
Lifeboat Distribution is an international specialty software distributor for virtualization/cloud computing, security, application and network infrastructure, business continuity/disaster recovery, database infrastructure and management, application lifecycle management, science/engineering, and other technically sophisticated products. Lifeboat Distribution services thousands of solution providers, VARs, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and consultants worldwide, helping them power a rich opportunity stream, expand their margin+ services revenues, and build profitable product and service businesses. Lifeboat is a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTG).
NEWWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
NewWave Technologies, Inc., founded in 1992, is a nationally recognized distributor of Enterprise Content Management technologies and support services. Together, NewWave and its Value Added Reseller channel partners deliver seamlessly integrated products and solutions that capture, store, manage, and distribute business-critical information. Strategic alliances with document management and storage market leaders such as Kodak, Fujitsu, Canon, Imation, Panasonic, and Kofax, and emerging mobile capture partnerships with TabletKiosk, and Mi-Co, insure NewWave’s partners the continued ability to meet the ever changing needs of their customers. NewWave supports its customers with competitive pricing, highly trained support teams, unparalleled E-Commerce services, and a full suite of custom tailored reseller programs. It is this commitment that has made NewWave the distributor of choice for over 1300 customers in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
SYNNEX
SYNNEX Corporation, a Fortune 500 corporation, is a leading business process services company, servicing resellers and original equipment manufacturers in multiple regions around the world. The Company provides services in IT distribution, supply chain management, contract assembly and global business services. Founded in 1980, SYNNEX employs over 7,000 associates worldwide and operates in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
TECH DATA
The Tech Data model enables technology solution providers, manufacturers and publishers to cost-effectively sell to and support end users ranging from small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) to large enterprises. At Tech Data, we see our services as a platform for your business success-because your success is our success! We carry an extensive line card of products from hundreds of technology manufacturers and publishers, and distribute these products to more than 100,000 technology resellers.
TOGL
TOGL’s mission is to provide growing MSP’s with access to a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge solutions, best practices and superior mentoring. We partner with Managed Services Providers like YOU who are struggling to keep up with rapid changes in the technology industry and missing out on competitive pricing opportunities. We help our affiliates follow our model of success to dominate their market in four crucial growth areas of IT: Cloud Computing, Desktop Management, Mobility and Connectivity. The core value of affiliation is access to a comprehensive suite of best of breed recurring revenue solutions, high value pricing and out-of-the-box best practices combined with mentorship from some of the country’s top IT services providers.
THE ASCII GROUP
ASCII helps SMB IT Practices that want more efficiency, knowledge and benefits from economies of scale. We reduce your need to hire more resources because our staff is responsible for supporting your business in critical areas that involve time, money or opportunities that your business deals with but is non-revenue generating. That means more of your time is spent on building your business not administrating it.