Managed Services

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  • VeriSign Sells Managed Services Unit to SecureWorks

    The Associated Press is reporting that VeriSign has divested its managed security services division to SecureWorks for an undisclosed price. VeriSign’s new management has reportedly been looking to sell off some of its non-core assets to focus the business on domain registration and management services, and SSL certificate units. Managed security services was among those…

  • Report: Managed Services Doing Well Despite Recession

    Companies delivering technology solutions through a managed services model have weathered the current economic recession better than companies focused on more traditional product and support sales, new research from CompTIA reveals. Though profits from both groups have been negatively affected by the economy in the past year, managed services providers have been better able to…

  • DataPreserve Offers ‘Cloud’ Data Protection for SMBs

    With an eye on small to midsized business (SMB) customers, DataPreserve unveiled its DataPreserve Pro software suite; enterprise-level, cloud-based data protection software and storage geared for SMBs. In announcing the software, DataPreserve noted that it is designed to be utilized by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), who offer data protection services to their clients without incurring…

  • Printing: The Untapped Services Opportunity

    Hewlett Packard announced its quarterly earnings this week and quickly analysts asked “what happened to the profit in printing?” The decline in HP printer revenue—the former cash cow of the company—and the struggles of printer vendors such as Xerox, Ricoh and Lexmark—as many financial analysts and reporters believe the green (money) is gone when it…

  • Level Platforms Adds Microsoft Hosted Apps to Monitoring Dashboard

    Level Platforms is making it easier for the channel to remotely monitor and manage both on-premises technology and managed services that are increasingly becoming part of customers’ IT environments. The company has launched the Managed Cloud Services program, which offers support for Microsoft hosted applications like the Business Productivity Online Suite that features Exchange Online,…

  • Meraki Brings Wireless into the Cloud

    Wireless networking provider Meraki has launched a breakthrough Enterprise Wireless local area network (LAN) product line that pushes wireless LAN capabilities into the cloud, allowing solution providers to offer wireless as a service to businesses of any size. The line consists of Meraki’s Enterprise Cloud Controller and two new high-performance 802.11n wireless access points (APs),…

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