Tag: advisory

  • Alliance: A Professional Code of Ethics Will Distinguish MSPs from the Crowd

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    Looking to enhance the image of its membership in the eyes of end users, the MSPAlliance, a professional organization of managed service providers, has created a code of ethics. The move is intended to provide a benchmark for the emerging area of managed services and to also give the organization’s members an advantage over anyone… Read more

  • MySQL Adds Automation to Enterprise Subscription Service

    MySQL Adds Automation to Enterprise Subscription Service
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    Open-source database developer MySQL announced a new version of its commercial subscription service, which will feature automated technology designed to help users monitor their databases more effectively. MySQL Enterprise is available as an annual subscription in four different service tiers. The highest level, Platinum, contains components such as enterprise server software, network monitoring and advisory… Read more

  • CompTIA Preps Business Transformation Tools for the Channel

    CompTIA Preps Business Transformation Tools for the Channel
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    CompTIA’s Reseller Transformation Advisory Council is moving ahead with the creation of tools intended to help solution providers run their businesses more effectively. The council, backed with funding from Microsoft, IBM, Symantec, Ricoh, Canon, Xerox and McAfee, is developing tools that solution providers can use to assess the health of their business. The tools, currently… Read more

  • Symantec Establishes Partner Advisory Councils

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    Security vendor Symantec announced the establishment of a global and several regional partner advisory councils to give enterprise resellers a hand in the company’s course and forge closer ties between the vendor and VARs. The company promises a “highly interactive” vehicle to offer input on the vendor’s go-to-market strategies and an effective, influential forum for… Read more

  • CompTIA Guides VARs Through Transformation

    CompTIA Guides VARs Through Transformation
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    Changing your business model from reseller to solution provider takes more than the flick of a switch, and that’s why the Computing Technology Industry Association is devising a comprehensive plan to help make the transition. The association, based in Oak Brook, Ill., appointed an advisory council last spring to put together a transition plan for… Read more

  • SMB Council Offers HP Its 2 Cents

    SMB Council Offers HP Its 2 Cents
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    Hewlett-Packard Co., last month, launched an advisory council of its small and midsize business resellers to help guide its route to the SMB market and its relationships with its 15,000 partners in the space. Eighteen of the hardware vendor’s SMB resellers will serve as a channel of dialogue between HP decision makers and VARs, helping… Read more