 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcast, the newsroom for tech, telecom, and data center professionals. I'm Buffy Herakitas coming to you from Channel Partners 2022 in Glamorous, Las Vegas. And joining me today is Brandon Jansky, Vice President of Sales for Involta. Brandon, thank you for joining us today. Buffy, thanks for having us. Thanks to JSA for having us as well. And I have to agree, Glamorous, Las Vegas, right? Great place to be. Great conference. You know what they say? What happens at Channel Partners stays at Channel Partners. Well, this is the biggest Channel Partners to date. They say over 7,000 attendees here in Las Vegas. And it's so great to be back together in person in Las Vegas for Channel Partners. And when it comes to the channel and Involta, why don't you tell us what's been going on? Yeah, I have to agree with you. Awesome event. A lot of good conversations, a lot of good energy in this whole entire conference. So as far as Involta goes, things that are new and things that are happening for us at Involta really focus around cybersecurity, really focus on our public cloud offerings, and then providing managed services that help support Channel Partners that we're speaking with and engaging with here in this program. So what we're realizing and some of the new things that we're rolling out that seem to be beneficial to the groups that we've been talking to here, our ability to provide security services above and beyond what they may be able to do on-prem for their clients, provide 24-7 365 security operations centers, and also help them with conversations such as public cloud migrations, digital transformation and application rationalizations, trying to understand where workloads should go and where they should be putting their clients workloads as far as on-prem private clouds and public cloud solutions. Yeah, Involta is such a leader when it comes to the channel year after year, winning multiple awards, CRN, Tech Elite 250, several others. So it's so great to have you guys out here and talking about cybersecurity, which is so important today, especially when it comes to Channel Partners and really helping them understand some of the different services when it comes to cybersecurity. But let's pivot for a second about something else that Involta is known for as a pioneer when it comes to edge computing and edge data center. Why don't you tell us a little bit more about what's going on at the edge? Yeah, so edge is definitely one of those buzzwords that people are talking about all the time more and more, but really for 15 years, I think we believe that we've been at the edge already. So we build, own, operate, maintain our own data centers, and that's really what we started cutting our teeth when we were founded back in 2007 and building our first data center in 2008. Recent news from us, we were bought by a company called Carlyle Group, which definitely allows us to have a little bit more economic backing to go out and say, hey, maybe we want to expand into some new markets with some new data center builds, but it also allows us to start out on initiatives like edge computing and helping to find what that might mean for Channel Partners, for our clients themselves, and having teams like Scott Evers who's one of our enterprise architects leading the team with our product development saying, what is the edge going to be for Involta? What is that going to be for our clients? And you know, how are they going to leverage the quote unquote edge platform or edge computing that we're providing at Involta? So it's exciting. We're definitely working on it. We're there and we're developing more and more new ideas around it every day. Yeah. Yeah, so, so proud of everyone over at Involta and congratulations again on that acquisition with the Carlyle Group giving you the funds and the backing that you need to further expand at the edge. Brandon, where can viewers go to find more when it comes to Involta? Yeah, so obviously you can find us at involta.com, i-n-v-o-l-t-a dot com, and then LinkedIn, follow our Involta team, and I believe we're on Twitter as well. So if you like that platform a little bit more, follow us there and see our posts. Yeah, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, involta.com, one of the leaders when it comes to cyber security, one of the leaders when it comes to edge recently acquired by the Carlyle Group and just continuing to grow and win channel award after channel award. Brandon, again, thank you so much for joining us today and viewers, thank you for tuning in to another fabulous episode of JSA TV and JSA Podcast here at Channel Partners 2022. Happy channel networking!