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June 14, 2019 The Nerdio Admin Portal (NAP) is a multi-tenant, single-pane-of-glass portal that allows MSPs to manage all of their Azure deployments securely in one place and across all aspects of the IT environment. The NAP can manage VMs, storage, networking, backup, autoscaling, users, virtual desktops, Office 365, mailboxes, security, and much more – all in a...
June 12, 2019 One of the most common workloads that MSPs support for their customers are line-of-business applications with a SQL Server database back-end. This also happens to be one of the more popular Azure workloads. Microsoft has created several SQL offerings in Azure, including Azure SQL and SQL Managed Instance. However, most MSPs prefer to start out with...
June 12, 2019 Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end on January 14th, 2020 and Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 will end on July 9th, 2019. End of support means the end of regular security updates. With cyber attacks becoming more sophisticating and frequent, running apps and data on unsupported...
June 11, 2019 Microsoft holds monthly meetings to share with partners their current incentives for the month. The incentives change slightly depending on the specifics that Microsoft wants partners to focus on. Microsoft’s purpose is to reward and support CSP partners for driving the activation and enabling of customers with Microsoft-based Online Services. Internally, this is known as...
June 07, 2019 Although not the case in every single deployment scenario, for the vast majority of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) deployments for SMBs, Microsoft has dropped the price by 25%! As most Managed Service Providers (MSP) cater to the SMB market, this recent development will significantly decrease the cost per-user for the majority of their WVD deployments. For those not familiar with WVD, take a look at this recent post: What MSPs...
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