Managed Services

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  • On-Demand LOB Goes Really Small

    Saving space and energy are big selling points for server virtualization, but what’s a VAR to do with desktop virtualization? David Bennett, president of Connections for Business has an idea on how to use desktop virtualization that he thinks could change the industry the same way LANs did back in the 1980s. Bennett, who partners…

  • Lexmark Offers Managed Services for its VARs

    Lexmark is telling its VARs to think managed services when it comes to offering printing solutions. The Lexington, Ky. printing vendor announced Oct. 23 that it expanded its channel program to allow its VARs to offer more managed services to customers as a way to add value to its products. The program, called the Lexmark…

  • Dell Building ‘Services Supply Chain’

    Dell’s MSP partners will soon have a new service to offer to customers, and to compete with Dell on. The company announced April 24 that it has closed on its MessageOne acquisition. The deal provides Dell with managed services technology for e-mail management, archiving and business continuity. The company is adding these functions to its…

  • Managed Services Becoming Commodity?

    Recent moves by heavyweights Dell and Intel in the managed services market raise some questions about the market’s direction but, more importantly, add validity to a business model dismissed as hype not long ago. Intel on April 8 launched its “white label” managed services offering, which includes hosted Exchange and Sharepoint components. A week earlier,…

  • Amazon Proves That the Grass Is Not Always Greener

    For those users rushing to hosted storage solutions, the news that Amazon’s S3 utility has crashed should make many of them think twice before putting their eggs in the remote basket. S3 suffered a “massive” outage today, beginning at about 7:30 am ET. By about 9:00am, Amazon posted a note in the service’s customer forum,…

  • Channel Summit Raises Million Dollar Question

    How long until managed services are commoditized? A tough question to answer, not least because many solution providers (if not most) are still trying to come to terms with transitioning their business to managed services, let alone it already becoming a commoditized arena. Nevertheless, this was the question posed to Dell’s channel chief, Greg Davis…

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