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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…
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Spiceworks, Eaton Release Free UPS Monitoring and Management Software
Social business networking specialist Spiceworks has teamed with Eaton, a diversified power management company, to offer the industry’s first free power management software features that allow its 1.4 million small and midsize business users to remotely monitor and manage uninterruptible power systems for free through Spiceworks. The UPS features are available in the latest beta…
