Recent Articles
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Managed Services Commoditization: Myth or Reality?
Charles Weaver, president of the MSPAlliance, writes in his blog that commoditization of managed services is a myth that is perpetuated by scare tactics by large vendors, pressure by customers and managed service providers quick to drop prices for fear of an unknown future. As Weaver writes: “The commodity talk is almost entirely created by…
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Asigra Launches New Cloud-Based Backup Services
Asigra Inc., a cloud backup and recovery software provider, has announced the Asigra Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery platform. The ninth generation Asigra platform brings transformational backup architecture, allowing users to outsource backup to a public cloud, build a private cloud or select a hybrid of the two models. The latest generation offering brings industry…
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Security Vendor SonicWall to Target MSP Integration, Licensing
Security appliance infrastructure vendor SonicWall is strengthening its play in the managed services space by offering solution providers a host of educational and marketing materials to help them get into the managed services business. But that’s just the beginning Later this year, the company plans to introduce more flexible licensing options to better match the managed…
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Verizon Offers Pay-as-You-Go Hosting Service
(Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc on Thursday unveiled a pay-as-you go hosting service for corporate customers looking to save money by buying only as much computing capacity as they need at any given time. Verizon is the latest U.S. telecom to jump on the bandwagon of so-called "cloud computing" services after AT&T Inc said last…
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HP Software Revamps Partner Program Licensing
Hewlett-Packard is revamping its software licensing options and software channel program in an effort to make more of a play for the managed services platform space and to better accommodate the way end-user companies and solution provider channel partners would prefer to pay. "We are helping partners reduce their risk [and] improve their cash flow…