Managed Services

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Vetting Vendors is Key to Cloud Sales and Success for MSPs What should information technology (IT) managed service providers (MSPs) consider in selecting vendors to be successful overall — especially in cloud sales?
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MSP Prospects Finally Start to Brighten MSPs need to invest now to be ready for a second half 2021 recovery.
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When Channel Partners Get to Resenting Channel Account Managers The channel is now about managed services, not products, and vendors that fail to see that will lose out.
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The New Software Provider Business Model - Toolsmith We think of software providers selling their products through resellers, but some software providers have radically changed that to a services model.
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Why it’s Not Easy to Become an MSSP Many pundits are recommending that MSPs become MSSPs and "simply add security" to their offerings. It's not that simple.
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Are You SURE You're Profitable? Service companies don't have a chance at profitability if they don't know the meaning of the term "fully burdened cost."
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Managing the Shift from Push to Pull As resellers morphed into service providers, they created huge opportunities to pull products along with projects, changing vendor-partner relationships.
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Making Sense of IT-Telecom Channel Convergence IT-telecom channel convergence could solve a lot of needs. But will it happen?
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The Changing Channel: How IT Vendors Should Position Partner Programs With very few resellers left, MSPs are the new channel partners. Here's how IT vendors can stay relevant - and what MSPs should consider when selecting a vendor partner.
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What Partners Need to Know About HP, Inc. In the channel, HP, Inc. is a storied vendor that has relationships in the channel that go back decades, So after a few troubling years and being spun off from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), there are a lot of partners benefiting from HP. But as...
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Much at Stake for MSPs in Merger of Datto and Autotask Chances are high that other providers of MSP platforms will soon move to aggregate IT services as well.
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Arrow Adds Automation Platform for Cloud Deployments Arrow Electronics aims to mitigate the cloud challenge for many of its MSP partners by offering BitTitan's MSPComplete managed services automation platform.
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How Channel Partners Monetize Vendor Relationships Marketing effectively to find new sources of income is challenging, but channel partners can leverage their vendor relationships to create new revenue streams.
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Planning for the Future: Consider the Possibilities With the cloud replacing many server and storage sales, what can channel partners that are dependent on these hardware sales do to replace them?
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Defining MSPs' Goals, Challenges and Tools Did you know that most IT service professionals who work at managed service providers prefer Star Wars (66 percent) to Star Trek (17 percent)? The majority of MSPs also log into social media networks daily, with Facebook and LinkedIn as the most...
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MSPs Need to Prep Now for an SDN Transition It's time for MSPs to prepare for the rise of software-defined networking and network virtualization because they stand to gain more than they might lose.
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Technology Is Shaping the Channel, CompTIA Reports Digital transformation, cloud computing, mobility and the internet of things (IoT) are some of the drivers behind the 4.1 percent growth rate projected for the global IT industry in 2017, according to CompTIA's "IT Industry Outlook 2017." For the...
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