What do IT managers and managed service providers (MSPs) have in common? They both manage a sea of desktop devices. Join the SolarWinds MSP™ Head Nerds while they discuss the challenges and successes of deploying, managing and securing the multitude of desktop devices in various environments.
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Episode Host
Eric Anthony
Head Operations Nerd, SolarWinds
A long-time member of the IT services community, Eric began his career in IT by opening his first break/fix business in 1992. After a couple of c-level management positions in manufacturing and fashion, he returned to IT in 2007 to start an MSP. After selling his MSP, he joined the GFI Max team which has now evolved into his current role as Head Operations Nerd at SolarWinds MSP where he continues to engage in the IT services community daily. He’s a frequent contributor to the SolarWinds MSP blog and hosts many webinars through the MSP Institute to help MSPs grow and succeed.
Episode Guests
Marc-Andre Tanguay
Head Automation Nerd, SolarWinds
Marc has expansive experience in the MSP space. Having worked as an internal IT support engineer for multiple MSPs, Marc has a real understanding of what SolarWinds MSP customers truly go through on a day-to-day basis. In addition, Marc has worked as an automation developer for four years and has written over 200 automation objects for SolarWinds, making him a perfect fit to elevate the SolarWinds MSP automation community and take automation in our platforms to the highest level. His experience working one-on-one with hundreds of MSPs with SolarWinds—helping them create, optimize, and employ some of the strongest automation processes in our industry—will most certainly help to achieve our goal of becoming the leader in automation.
Gill Langston
Head Security Nerd, SolarWinds
Gill Langston is Head Security Nerd for SolarWinds MSP. His focus is helping MSPs increase awareness of current security issues and trends to improve protection for their own business—and their customer offerings. Gill’s background is in SMB- and MSP-focused security products, including endpoint antivirus, web protection, patch management, log and event monitoring, advanced endpoint protection, next-gen firewalls, vulnerability management, and email protection. Gill has served in product management roles at GFI Software, ThreatTrack Security, Avast, and Qualys.
Eric Harless
Head Backup Nerd, SolarWinds
Officially named as Head Backup Nerd for SolarWinds MSP, Eric has over 25 years of data protection experience and has held senior-level product management, marketing, system engineering, sales, and customer support roles with several data protection and disaster recovery vendors, including FalconStor Software, Symantec, CA Technologies, CommVault Systems, Yosemite Technologies, and Veritas Software.
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