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ChannelVision is a bi-monthly digital and print magazine, read by channel partners selling all manner of voice, data, access, managed and business services (both on premise and “in the cloud”), as well as, technology, gear, and equipment. ChannelVision is a highly focused and efficient way for service providers, hardware, and software companies to reach experienced channel partners targeting the small/medium business space. Serving a controlled circulation of providers and indirect distributors of communications, network, IT and cloud-based business services, ChannelVision is telecom’s gateway to perspective on how to adapt, what to sell, and how to sell it.
CONTENTS
Emergent
Core Communications
Emerging technologies move toward the core By Martin Vilaboy
Microsoft Teams gains steam By Martin Vilaboy
Mobile & Wireless
The march to WPA3 By Gerald Baldino
Virtual Reality
24 SD-WAN Challenges Are IT Channel Opportunities (By Joe O’Connor)
Cyber Patrol
26 Flawless Phishes, Monetization and Intelligence
A look at cybersecurity in 2019 (By Brian Pinnock)
30 Layer on the Security Sales Five reasons cloud-based
MFA makes perfect sense for VARs and MSSPs (By Himanshu Vermaa)
32 Channel Partners Seek Security
By Gerald Baldino
Channel Management
IT channel firms head into 2019 optimistic about transformation (By Martin Vilaboy)
Channel partners need services not technology (By Peter Radizeski)
International Agents
44 Africa’s Overlooked Opportunities
Explosive growth abounds in this not-so-dark-anymore continent (By Martin Vilaboy)
At Your Service: XaaS
50 Exodus to Cloud UC (By Gerald Baldino)
52 Online Tech Acquires Neverfail
63 ICYMI
66 Ad index