Tag: MSPs

  • N-able Ratchets Up Velocity for MSPs

    N-able Ratchets Up Velocity for MSPs

    Chris Gonsalves

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    When it comes to providing managed services for small and midsize businesses, the killer app is usually speed. MSPs (managed services providers) that get bogged down in the configuration process—spending hours setting up each seat for monitoring and management—are rarely the most profitable. Finding a managed services platform that eases the process of bringing new… Read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • ‘Tiny Metal Box’ Woos VARs and MSPs

    ‘Tiny Metal Box’ Woos VARs and MSPs

    Jessica Davis

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    Looking to bring appliance-enabled software services to smaller companies, Jumpnode Systems has created a reseller program and also began signing MSPs to use its appliance for monitoring and remote management. The three-year-old Minneapolis-based company, which only began shipping the appliance two years ago, launched the partner program at the end of April and has already… Read more

  • MSPs Will Need White-Box Services if They Are to Sleep at Night

    MSPs Will Need White-Box Services if They Are to Sleep at Night

    Michael Vizard

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    Among the things that keep managed services providers up at night is this concept of hardware as a service. But the sleepless nights have little to do with understanding the model, which is, after all, just a slight variant on the leasing model. The real concern is how to keep hardware service from eating away… Read more

  • Bridging the MSP-Consumer Gap

    Bridging the MSP-Consumer Gap

    Charles Weaver

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    During the 1970s, everyone wanted to be a lawyer. Enrollment at law schools skyrocketed, and the legal profession enjoyed a surge of new members—not unlike what the managed services profession is going through at this very moment. There is so much buzz in the IT channel today about managed services it is almost comical. Everyone… Read more