{"id":36215,"date":"2019-11-20T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=36215"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:58:45","slug":"msp-voice-episode-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/msp-voice-episode-67\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP Voice Episode 67 &#8211; \u201cPredictable Success\u201d with Phillip Poarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s guest is Phillip Poarch with Tolar Systems out of Abilene, TX. Tolar has been in business since 1999 where they started with high-end consulting. In 2012 they switched over to the MSP model. Phillip has been with Tolar since 2012, the same year the changed their model.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After educating their customer base on the MSP model they\u2019ve had great success in Abilene and surrounding areas. By targeting verticals that have to deal with compliance they can use their expertise in security and compliance.<br \/>\nWhen I asked Phillip what technology he\u2019s most excited about, he replied it\u2019s is the upcoming release of the Rivian EV. It\u2019s billed as the first adventure based electric truck. Tolar has already pre-ordered one and they\u2019re very excited for its release.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Phillip Poarch<\/p>\n<p>Company: <a href=\"https:\/\/tolarsystems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tolar Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Watch on YouTube<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSP Voice #67: PREDICTABLE SUCCESS with Phillip Poarch\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcM5MKyXTq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>News of the Week<\/h2>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msspalert.com\/cybersecurity-news\/hackers-target-connectwise-automate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ConnectWise warns of hackers targeting Automate<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brief: If you\u2019re running on-premise ConnectWise Automate be sure to make sure ports are NOT left open<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2019\/11\/11\/boston-data-backup-company-carbonite-sold-for\/HDCl5Sqd3wsdvj09i4ugYJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston data backup company Carbonite sold for $1.42b<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brief: Carbonite (and Webroot) have been acquired by OpenText.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s guest is Phillip Poarch with Tolar Systems out of Abilene, TX. Tolar has been in business since 1999 where they started with high-end consulting. In 2012 they switched over to the MSP model. Phillip has been with Tolar since 2012, the same year the changed their model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":35276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,884],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp-business-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}