Tag: managed service provider

  • Replacing the ‘M’ in MSP With Other Terms

    Replacing the ‘M’ in MSP With Other Terms

    Howard M. Cohen

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    What service can you offer that is not managed? The delivery of any service must be managed to assure quality, so calling it a “managed service” is somewhat like referring to “wet water.” Many service providers are dropping the superfluous word “managed” and replacing it with a wide variety of others in an effort to… Read more

  • Atera Makes Benchmarking Service Available to MSPs

    Atera Makes Benchmarking Service Available to MSPs

    Michael Vizard

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    Looking to offer managed service providers a platform to manage their operations, Atera is making available a Benchmark service through which MSPs can employ a range of metrics to show how their organizations are performing in comparison to their competitors. Using data collected from hundreds of managed service providers that use the Atera platform, an… Read more

  • The Cloud MSP: Building on Traditional Roles

    The Cloud MSP: Building on Traditional Roles

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Many channel partners who used to sell on-premise infrastructure solutions have been gradually acknowledging the customer value proposition from cloud computing and have transitioned to it. A new breed of cloud solution providers has emerged as a result. Many managed service providers (MSPs), on the other hand, seem to want to perpetuate the myth that… Read more

  • Data Management Opportunities Abound for Channel

    Data Management Opportunities Abound for Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    Data management Data Management Opportunities Abound for Channel Poor data management practices may cost organizations more than $3 trillion by 2020. This creates significant data management opportunities for the channel. The Growth of Data On average, IT executives report data is growing at a rate of 39% per year. Average File Size The average size… Read more

  • Will SDI’s Rise Enhance MSP Profits?

    Michael Vizard

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    On one hand, the rise of software-defined infrastructure (SDI) takes away from the channel. Instead of being able to count on revenue generated by integrating servers, storage and networking, a greater percentage of IT infrastructure is now pre-integrated. On the other side of that equation, the combination of SDI and hyperconverged infrastructure makes it much… Read more

  • MSP-Internal IT Relationship: How It’s Changing

    MSP-Internal IT Relationship: How It’s Changing

    Michael Vizard

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    At a time when many organizations have higher expectations than ever regarding their IT investments, the divide between internal IT organizations and managed service providers is finally coming to a head. Historically, internal IT organizations often as a last resort begrudgingly agreed to outsource to an MSP areas beyond their ken—including IT security or lower-level… Read more