--- title: The MSP of 2027 won’t be defined by the size of its stack description: Acronis hosted a roundtable dinner in Cape Town for MSPs, resellers and channel partners to discuss how managed service providers can scale security capability... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-msp-of-2027-won-t-be-defined-by-the-size-of-its-stack-tke25uczs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The MSP of 2027 won’t be defined by the size of its stack | daily.dev og:description: Acronis hosted a roundtable dinner in Cape Town for MSPs, resellers and channel partners to discuss how managed service providers can scale security capability... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-msp-of-2027-won-t-be-defined-by-the-size-of-its-stack-tke25uczs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tkE25UCZS.png og:image:alt: The MSP of 2027 won’t be defined by the size of its stack og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The MSP of 2027 won’t be defined by the size of its stack **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Acronis hosted a roundtable dinner in Cape Town for MSPs, resellers and channel partners to discuss how managed service providers can scale security capability amid a persistent skills shortage. Key themes included the gap between compliance and genuine resilience, the complexity hidden inside fragmented tool stacks, and the shift from passive protection to active detection and response. The concept of the 'autonomous MSP' was framed not as removing people but as using intelligent platforms and automation to free skilled staff for higher-value work. Acronis positioned itself as a partner helping MSPs consolidate cyber protection, backup and endpoint management into a unified platform to reduce tool sprawl and improve response times. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The MSP stack is collapsing under its own weight. 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