Recent Articles
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Channel Helps Customers Make Their Move to the Cloud
Using a mix of on-premise and cloud deployments, channel companies are making the transition to the cloud to help their end customers capitalize on its benefits such as reducing both costs and IT complexity. As many enterprises opt for this mixed approach, partly because of concerns about cloud security and integration, cloud providers are beginning…
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Gen Y Ups the Ante for Technology in the Workforce
Gen Y for Technology Bye-Bye Baby Boomers As older Boomers reach retirement age, Gen Y and Gen X workers will be filling the gap. The workforce is expected to shift to Gen Y by 2020. This means businesses will need to adapt to a new set of expectations, attitudes and work preferences, including IT tools…
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MSP Platform War Escalates Across the Channel
For more than 10 years, a slow but steady migration toward managed services has been taking place across the channel. There have been many challenges facing solution providers making that migration, including the fact that most customers are still not managing IT as a service. Without that fundamental shift in philosophy about the management of…
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LogMeIn Launches Its First Official Channel Program
After 10 years of operating without one, LogMeIn has launched its first formal channel program, which is aimed primarily at managed services providers (MSPs) that would incorporate the company’s IT application and systems management tools into their portfolios. The new channel program puts some formal terms and conditions around tools that are already widely used…
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Roambi Launches N.A. Partner Program, Debuts Cloud
Roambi has launched its North America Roambi Partner Program, which will enable solution and referral partners to offer their customers a new cloud platform that takes advantage of the increasing business use of smartphones and tablets. Roambi Business, the new cloud platform, gives mobile device users access to a data visualization tool that leverages their…
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Managed Services Thrive in the Cloud Era
By Michael Vizard Conventional wisdom held that cloud computing would lead to a centralization of IT resources in a way that would ultimately lead to the demise of managed services. Instead, we’ve seen an explosion in complexity that is about to create more demand for managed services than ever before. The major issue customers are…
