SMB Community Podcast

As I was wandering the floor at IT Nation, Jessica Turner from AVG stopped me to give me some information about the new AVG program: Cloud Care.

Then Austen Clark wandered up…

As the IT Nation show was winding down, I talked to some guys from Continuum.

Joe Consolmagno is a Technical Account Manager for the Mid Atlantic Region. Raymond Vrabel is Director of Technical Acco…

I always like catching up with Dan Wensley from Level Platforms. Dan makes a point of starting out this interview with a ringing endorsement of the IT Nation conference.

Level Platforms recently add…

My friend Nancy Hammervik is the Senior Vice President, Industry Relations at CompTIA. On November 9th she was awarded a Bronze Stevie Award as “Female Innovator of the Year – Government or Non-Profi…

Alan McDonald is President and CTO of Xilocore.

Xilocore is a “business continuity and disaster recovery” company focused value added resellers. The develop entire disaster preparedness plans that c…

While at IT Nation last weekend, I grabbed Kent McNall, CEO of Quosal for a quick interview. This “killer combo” of products is one of the most impressive things I saw over the weekend.

Quosal was o…

One of the fun people I don’t get to see enough is Ian Watkins from the UK. He has been using ConnectWise for seven years.

I caught up with Ian as he was in line to get into one of the breakout sess…

While hanging out in the PacketTrap booth, the talk turned to an interesting product combination that surprised me. Geoff Parker from PacketTrap tells me that a number of partners came by the booth a…

Erinn Davis is one of the hardest working people I ran into at IT Nation. We grabbed an empty boardroom to talk abou…

ChannelEyes is now in its second year and Jay McBain was on the floor at IT Nation to talk to vendors about connecting with partners.

According to Jay, most MSPs work with an average of eight vendor…

Kim’s cloud display was very clever. In fact, it caught my eye and I had to take a picture. Then, of course, I turned on the microphone to ask what they do.

Integral is a “full IT solution provider.…

I dropped by the Symantec booth at IT Nation and had some fun horsing around with Anne Stobaugh and Dal Gemmell. They brought me up to speed with some of the latest programs at Syamantec.

Anne made …

Karl with Jenna from Spam Soap

Jenna Chase is always in a good mood, and she really enjoyed the IT Nation vendor floor this year. We caught up with her on the last day.

Spam Soap is a cloud based …

One of the vendors that seems to make every show is eFolder (www.eFolder.net). I talked to Booth Dude Tel Hulsy about the eFolder product and what they’re up to.

eFolder Crew at IT Nation

Ted’s bi…

I had a chance to sit down with Arnie and David Bellini near the end of IT Nation and get some insights into what they’re doing and where the company is going. Arnie B…

One of my old friends Steve Noel talked to me about his role at Axcient and what the company’s up to these days. Steve is a Techno Sales Engineer at Axcient.

Steve Noel

Axcient is a 100% Channel f…

I sat down with Larry Walsh, CEO of The 2112 Group at IT Nation.

The 2112 Group is an analyst firm that supports vendors in the solution provider community. They provide “leadership and best practice…

Kevin McGibben – CEO of LogicMonitor – met up with me at the ConnectWise IT Nation conference in Orlando Friday.

LogicMonitor is a “pure SaaS based IT infrastructure monitoring service.” We talked ab…

I caught up with Jason Samples from PacketTrap at the ConnectWise IT Nation conference in Orlando.

My first question was “What are you doing here?” PacketTrap has both a PSA and an RMM tool. Their RM…

Final Report from SMB Nation Fall 2012.

Our final interview from SMB Nation’s Fall conference is with Tom Poole, Founder and CEO of Cloud Nation. Cloud Nation is an SMB Nation family brand.

Cloud Nat…