Recent Articles
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Small Business IT Budgets Drop, but Some Spending Remains
Small business and midmarket business are decreasing their operating IT budgets by 4 percent in 2009 and their IT capital budgets by 2 percent to 3 percent in 2009, even as they strive for the most part to keep compensation and headcount about the same. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which…
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Steve Ferman: Busiest Man in Backup Services
Steve Ferman is one of the busiest men in managed services. In the past month, he’s changed the name of his backup and storage services company and attained the vaunted MSP Alliance vendor accreditation. In July, Ferman changed the name of his company from CompuVault to eTegrity Systems International, a specialist in two-tier storage and…
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Recession Boosts Managed Services Sales
The recession is driving the increased use of managed services by IT organizations. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research which notes that almost 20 percent of IT professionals are purchasing more managed services as a result of the current economic conditions. The finding comes from Forrester’s Enterprise and SMB Networks and Telecommunications…
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Kaseya-Powered ASCII MSP Fuel Helps VARS Jump into Managed Services
Resellers looking to get into managed services now have yet another option to choose from with the introduction of ASCII MSP Fuel from the ASCII Group. The community of independent resellers says that ASCII MSP Fuel is currently in beta and is being powered by Kaseya, a provider of software and services to MSPs. The…
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Verizon Business Remodels MSSP Platform
Verizon Business announced Aug. 5 a relaunch of its managed security services platform, introducing a number of new features that it hopes will take it to the top of the managed security service provider (MSSP) heap in the coming year. Designed to go above and beyond the standard antivirus-firewall-IPS trio so common among many security…
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CompTIA Outlines MSP success factors
With the annual value of the managed services opportunity expected to top $60 billion (US) by 2011, and margins as high as 40 percent, according to MSP Partners’ Jim Hamilton, it’s easy to understand why the channel is jumping on the managed services provider (MSP) business model. However, only a small fraction of VARs, just…