Tag: MSP
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Becoming Your Vendor’s Favorite Reseller
Categories: PartnersIt can be difficult to determine whether vendor relationships are healthy, especially if you don’t communicate with your vendors very often. But vendors typically send leads to their favorite resellers, which could mean you’re missing out on quite a few opportunities if you don’t pay attention to your vendor relationships. During the Q1 iteration of… Read more
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The Channel Outlook for 2022: Get Ready for Major Change
The good news is the channel is growing and full of opportunities. The challenge is that major changes are coming that will disrupt the channel and managed service provider (MSP) business model. Here’s everything you need to know about the dramatically changing channel business model and how to reposition your business to take advantage of… Read more
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The Channel Gets Serious About Being Taken Seriously
It may be because so many have deep roots in product resale, but the sad fact is that many customers see channel technologists, technicians, consultants, engineers and such as little more than glorified computer hobbyists. Not all customers, certainly, and not all channel partners, but enough that it poses a challenge to any credible firm… Read more
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SASE Managed Service: MSP Guide to Secure Access Service Edge
The network edge is an increasingly popular term to describe the expanding corporate network, which has grown beyond traditional perimeters to include the cloud, mobile and remote users, IoT devices, and the multitude of ways users and devices tap into today’s digital resources. For organizations building edge networks, managed edge security could be a viable,… Read more
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If We’re Not a Channel Anymore, What ARE We?
The channel has changed dramatically and will change even more dramatically in the coming decade. Should we even call it “the channel anymore”? Before we get to a possible answer, let’s set the stage with a quick look back into history. In August 1981 IBM introduced their Personal Computer. Since it was a corporate rule… Read more
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MSPs Expand Security Practices to Meet Demand: Kaspersky
Most managed service providers (MSPs) plan to grow their cybersecurity practices to meet demand from companies worried about the massive increase in threats that occurred at the same time that they had to deal with a dramatic shift to hybrid work environments brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report released last week, cybersecurity… Read more