Recent Articles
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Managed Services Not for Everyone
My phone rang at 4 a.m. Pacific time. On the other end was a VAR tortured by insomnia (fortunately for me, it was at least 7 a.m. in New York). He had been up all night racking his brain—and for good reason—over the quandary known as managed services. Now, you would think that this is…
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Managed Service Providers of the Year
Channel Insider today announced the first set of winners for its annual Bull’s Eye Awards. The first group is managed service providers and the vendors that support them. Each category has three award levels: Champion, Contender and Challenger. CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a leadership position today, but exhibits admirable qualities…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
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Gridstore Woos MSPs with NAS Offering
After close to two years of preparation in Ireland, Gridstore has opened its doors in Palo Alto, Calif., and is taking the wraps of its first offering targeted at managed service providers. NASg is an enterprise-class storage platform that delivers unlimited storage capacity, network bandwidth and processing capacity on existing Network Attached Storage resources. It…
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SecureWorks Acquires UK-based dns Limited
SecureWorks continued its managed security services empire building this week with its second major acquisition in six months by picking up UK-based dns Limited for an undisclosed sum. The purchase of this 10-year-old managed security services and consulting firm follows hot on the heels of SecureWork’s July acquisition of VeriSign’s Managed Security Services division for…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…