Tag: MSP
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CompTIA Outlines MSP success factors
With the annual value of the managed services opportunity expected to top $60 billion (US) by 2011, and margins as high as 40 percent, according to MSP Partners’ Jim Hamilton, it’s easy to understand why the channel is jumping on the managed services provider (MSP) business model. However, only a small fraction of VARs, just… Read more
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McAfee Sports MSP Status After MX Logic Buy
McAfee agrees to buy security vendor MX Logic for $140 million to bolster its software-as-a-service business. The deal follows McAfee’s recent announcement that it will be looking to expand its SAAS footprint among enterprises. McAfee announced July 30 that it has agreed to purchase security vendor MX Logic for $140 million to help build out… Read more
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Spiceworks Claims World’s Largest MSP Community
The world’s largest community of managed service providers doesn’t belong to a major IT vendor or any of the well-established remote monitoring and management software providers. Rather, the crown goes to Spiceworks, a provider of free, Web-based network management tools. At least that’s what Spiceworks claims in a press release issued today. Austin, Texas-based… Read more
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MSP Success: Video Cloud New Face of Video Conferencing
It’s hard to be optimistic in troubled economic times, but Jim Drohan and Paul Goldman, co-Founders of Video Cloud are just that. Fresh from the launch of Video Cloud in May 2009, Drohan and Goldman are seeing incredible interest in their managed video conferencing solutions both from small-to-midsized businesses and solution providers serving that market.… Read more
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MSP Success: Connecting Point Stresses Uptime
Las Vegas-based solution provider Connecting Point doesn’t sell its customers managed services. After all, not even the people who build managed services can agree on a definition of the term. If those who sell managed services can’t agree on what it means, then will customers understand the term? No, and that’s why Connecting Point sells… Read more
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Video MSP Provides Live Feeds for 2009 NBA Draft
For basketball fans watching tonight’s 2009 NBA Draft live on television to see which team gets Blake Griffin, there’s no tolerance for lost video signals, dropped video or audio or anything else going wrong with the broadcast. For the fifth year in a row, video conferencing managed service provider Glowpoint service will be making sure… Read more