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Kaseya 2 Improves Remote Access, Adds ITIL Service Desk
Calling it the biggest revision since the product was created, Kaseya is rolling out Kaseya 2 – a major update to its remote monitoring and managed services platform. Click here to read about Kaseya rival, Level Platforms (LPI)’s, most recent platform upgrade. Kaseya’s new release features new database architecture, a new user interface and navigation;…
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PC to Thin Client, a Transition Strategy for Desktop Virtualization
Greater energy efficiency, centralized management savings, lower acquisition costs and a longer lifetime. When you put it that way, what’s not to like about desktop virtualization and thin clients? But many companies have balked at the idea of what they see as some trimmed-down terminal model of computing. Users want their familiar PC desktop. Tell…
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Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft Join Level 3 Network Partner Program
Fiber-based communications network provider Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) is launching a new Content Delivery Partner (CDP) program for direct resellers, VARs and device vendors, with inaugural partners such as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), aimed at expanding the reach and value of Level 3’s broadcast and content delivery services. Billing itself as a telepresence-ready network provider, Level…
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ConnectWise Launches $20m Incubator Fund
Under the leadership of Arnie and David Bellini, ConnectWise evolved from an IT services organization to a publisher of professional services automation software that enables managed service providers to organize and optimize their business. Now, the brothers Bellini are launching ConnectWise Capital, a $20 million investment fund to provide channel entrepreneurs and innovators with funding…
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Channel Insider Premiers MSP Spotlight
Channel Insider and MSPtv, a video production arm of Zenith InfoTech, are partnering to produce "MSP Spotlight," a monthly live video talk show on sales, marketing and business optimization in managed services and cloud computing. The show will air on MSPtv.net. "MSP Spotlight," sponsored by Zenith InfoTech, is hosted by Carolyn April, editor of Channel…
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Kaseya, Lenovo Team for PC Managed Services
Lenovo is teaming up with automation specialist Kaseya to educate and enable its community of managed service providers in remote desktop management. Through the alliance announced today, Kaseya and Lenovo will embark on an education effort to expose more MSPs and VARs to emerging opportunities in desktop managed services, with particular emphasis on leveraging Intel…