Tag: MSP

  • Do IT Smarter Targets MSP Marketing

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to help its MSPs build their businesses, Do IT Smarter, a reseller of outsourced managed services for small-business VARs, is now offering its partners a marketing program that costs as little as $29.95 a month. The San Diego-based company, once a managed services provider itself, said VARs transitioning into being MSPs often find it… Read more

  • SilverBack Partner Takes Planned Dell Purchase in Stride

    SilverBack Partner Takes Planned Dell Purchase in Stride

    Jessica Davis

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    SilverBack Technologies’ partner Do IT Smarter is keeping an eye on what happens with Dell’s planned purchase of SilverBack, but for now everything is status quo. That’s the word from Do IT Smarter President Lane Smith, who told The Channel Insider today he had heard rumblings of a possible SilverBack sale, but found out about… Read more

  • Dell Enters the Managed Services Business

    Dell Enters the Managed Services Business

    Jeff Kaplan

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    Dell’s announcement that it plans to acquire SilverBack Technologies clearly shows how the IT industry is shifting from a product focus to a service orientation. While the size of this transaction was minute compared with the mega-deals that are getting headlines today, the significance of this acquisition could be great. SilverBack was one of the… Read more

  • Dell to Acquire MSP Platform Provider SilverBack

    Dell to Acquire MSP Platform Provider SilverBack

    Jessica Davis

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    Dell plans to acquire SilverBack Technologies, one of a handful of leading managed service platform companies offering IT monitoring and management services through resellers, the company announced today. The move comes two months after the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker, which built its business on direct sales of PCs to customers, announced that it would… Read more

  • Kaseya Supports Plug-Ins for Third-Party Vendors

    Kaseya Supports Plug-Ins for Third-Party Vendors

    Jessica Davis

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    MSP platform provider Kaseya has launched a technology alliance program to create better integration between its own technology and that of other vendors its partners may use. To further that end, Kaseya has released APIs, set to begin a 90-day beta period in July, for partners to write to. Kaseya said the new technology alliance… Read more

  • Ingram Micro Adds to MSP Platform

    Jessica Davis

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    Ingram Micro increased the magnitude of its Seismic managed services platform Monday, announcing two new major components – print services and online backup and restore. Seismic Online Backup and Restore, powered by VaultLogix, gives Seismic partners the option of offering data storage and retrieval for PCs, laptops, file servers, and application programs and databases. Seismic… Read more