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Future in the Cloud: Managed Services Megatrends
Image by kevindooley via Flickr Hardware has been commoditized and the margins hardware sales offer have narrowed. And now, just when you are ready to move more dramatically into services and perhaps even managed services, it seems like big vendors are also eyeing some of that same market. LPI Level Platforms CEO Peter Sandiford has…
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Avnet Introduces Professional and Managed Services
Technology distributor Avnet is pulling together its expertise in a number of solution areas—including security, networking, storage and virtualization—and creating SolutionsPath Services, a portfolio of professional and managed services that VARs can resell. The services practice is designed to help channel partners get in on the more profitable services business. “If you look at market…
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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…
