Recent Articles
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Google Eyes MSPs as It Crafts a Channel
There’s no question that Google is a giant in the search engine and cloud computing markets, yet the company remains a neophyte when it comes to formally partnering with the solution provider community. Unlike more established channel programs, Google’s two programs, in particular the new Google Apps Reseller Program, are still a work in progress.…
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Purewire Develops Two-Tier MSP Strategy
Purewire, a pioneer in cloud-based Web filtering and security monitoring services, is expanding the availability of its technology by making it available to managed service providers through two-tier reseller agreements with hosted security service providers. The Atlanta-based company recently signed Reflexion and Proofpoint, both providers of hosted e-mail and security services, as the first distributors…
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Channel Insider, HTG Peer Groups Launch Cloud Computing Research Program
Channel Insider, the leading source of channel intelligence and analysis, and HTG Peer Groups, the groundbreaking collaborative network of IT resellers and service providers, announced a collaborative partnership dubbed “Project Nimbus” to produce community-based guidance on cloud computing in the IT channel. Cloud computing, managed services, and hosted infrastructure and applications are rapidly transforming the…
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MSPs ID Lack of Network Visibility as Top Problem
Is the latest cat video that’s gone viral on YouTube clogging your customer’s network? Got more than a few employees listening to their own private radio stations on Pandora? A new survey of managed service providers reveals that more than half of them spend 13 percent of their time troubleshooting sluggish networks—sluggishness that can be…
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Framing a Common Definition for Cloud Computing
The channel spent years deliberating and debating the true definition of what constitutes a managed service. I don’t know if the issue was ever really settled or if the channel just got bored and moved on. Now that we’re entering the era of cloud computing, the opportunity for renewed debate over cloud computing’s definition. Frankly,…
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Google Clarifies Channel Position; Questions Linger
Following the publication of my article “Google’s Incomplete Channel Program Still a Work in Progress” on Monday, the G-men sent me a note to clarify a point in the article—where to find information about Google’s channel program(s). While Google is all about organizing and simplifying access to information on the Internet, it’s no different from…