Tag: MSP
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Security Vendor SonicWall to Target MSP Integration, Licensing
Security appliance infrastructure vendor SonicWall is strengthening its play in the managed services space by offering solution providers a host of educational and marketing materials to help them get into the managed services business. But that’s just the beginning Later this year, the company plans to introduce more flexible licensing options to better match the managed… Read more
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N-Able Publishes MSP Training Materials
N-able Technologies is trying to make it easier for channel partners to get into the business of selling managed services with the launch of a new online tool called Business e-Training Essentials. The evolution to the managed services provider business model can be challenging, and although there are an estimate 60,000 channel partners in North… Read more
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MSPAlliance, MSP Partners Clash over Accreditation
A feud, of sorts, is brewing between two of the channel’s largest associations of managed service providers—the MSPAlliance and MSP Partners—over which organization is best positioned to deliver training and certification to providers in the burgeoning managed services marketplace. MSP Partners—an organization founded by Level Platforms, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Ingram Micro and other vendors—recently announced… Read more
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Bridging the Gap Between MSP and Consumer
Categories: Managed ServicesIt is easy to become distracted by all the channel chatter surrounding managed services. To be honest, sometimes even I sit back with incredulity about how much managed services are on everyone’s minds these days. There are some out there who view all the excitement around managed services as evidence that this profession cannot be… Read more
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Study: Economy Fueling MSP Interest Among Vendors
As business spending on equipment and software slows, some of the biggest IT vendors are setting their sights on subscription-based revenue sources to help buoy them through the economic slump. A new study by Amazon Consulting and Channel Insider reveals that managed services, for which clients pay MSPs (managed services providers) utility-like fixed fees, are… Read more
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Managed Service Providers Find Strength in Numbers
When managed services started gaining momentum following the Y2K rush and dot-com bubble burst, solution providers that ventured into this new way of doing business were largely on their own. The pioneers met with different levels of success, and inevitably there were some false starts. Support was scarce and the vendors that had developed the… Read more