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N-Able Brings iPhone Support to N-Central 8.0
Remote monitoring and management and automation software provider N-able Technologies is bringing a mobile user interface to its next version N-central 8.0, available now. The support for mobile clients is available on Apple’s iOS first starting now and the Android platform in the 8.1 release later this year. Why? Because every single MSP is using…
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Cloud Computing Era Could Mean MSP Extinction
“Managed Service Providers will be obsolete in the next five to ten years.” Those blunt words come from Saeer Butts, a senior software architect at one of those MSPs, Zaphyr Technologies, in Parsippany, N.J. The cloud will put MSPs out of business, Butts said. As customers move more of their infrastructure to hosted environments, monitoring…
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Services Marketplace Gets Cloudy
Image via Wikipedia Everybody is talking this week about HP’s most recent service offering announcement, HP Strategic IT Advisory Services, which the company says is designed to “help CIOs use IT as a key driver of innovation, growth and profitability.” That’s because what this new offering provides sounds a lot like what channel partners provide…
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Google Introduces Flexible Pricing Plan Business Apps
Five years after the launch of Google Apps, the company is offering a flexible pricing plan designed to help small and midsize businesses. For customers who sign up online, Google is adding the Flexible Plan, a new $5 per user, per month pricing option which requires no contractual commitment. With this plan, businesses can add…
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Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services
Are you calling yourself a managed services provider but still making most of your money from other revenue streams? Jim Hare, vice president of sales at eGestalt, says that only about 10 percent of the channel who say they do managed services actually have a full fledged managed services business. The others are dipping toes…
