Tag: MSP

  • N-able Reporting Reminds MSP Clients What They’ve Bought

    N-able Reporting Reminds MSP Clients What They’ve Bought
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    N-able Technologies’ new N-Compass reporting tool delivers customizable reports, so managed service providers can demonstrate why they no longer feel the pain of downtime or service calls. The reporting tool and similar means from N-able’s competitors are crucial to MSPs trying to remind clients who no longer see their VAR’s engineers tinkering in the server… Read more

  • Study: MSPs Are Taking Legal Risks

    Study: MSPs Are Taking Legal Risks
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    Managed services providers operating under tight customer and partner contracts not only protect themselves legally but also raise the value of their companies. But according to a recent study by the MSP Alliance, some of the companies providing managed services to users don’t take legal protection seriously enough. In some cases, companies forgo legal counsel… Read more

  • MSPs Think Like Buyers, Notice NOCs

    MSPs Think Like Buyers, Notice NOCs
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    As solution providers move to add managed services to their portfolio, an interesting transformation begins to take place. Rather than thinking along the same lines as somebody trying to sell something, solution providers start to think like buyers, because the product selections that make up the service become technology decisions they have to live with… Read more

  • SecureMyCompany Makes MSP On-Demand for VARs

    SecureMyCompany Makes MSP On-Demand for VARs
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    BellSolutions, an MSP, has launched SecureMyCompany, a hosted management service provider offering for sale by VARs and other MSPs. Using its own MSP bundles on top of Jamcracker Saas (Software as a Service) platform, MSP-turned-vendor SecureMyCompany has put forth an on-demand MSP offering, allows VARs and MSPs to piggyback on SecureMyCompany’s own success. Resellers may… Read more

  • Security Breach Notification Legislation Will Boost MSPs

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    In the California Senate, it went by the name SB1386. It was A4001 in the New Jersey Assembly. The U.S. House of Representatives calls it HR3997, and the Senate S1789. Whatever the anonymous title, all fall under the category of data security breach notification bills sweeping Capitol Hill and statehouses nationwide, and each could represent… Read more

  • MSP Automation Saves, While Customization Costs

    MSP Automation Saves, While Customization Costs
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    When Bill Clinton ran successfully for President in 1992, he won largely on the strength of the campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” As legend has it, this statement was posted in the war room of his campaign headquarters. All service providers should have a similar mantra if they want to be successful and sell… Read more