Month: May 2018
Inaugural MSP Day 2018 marks launch of The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business Report
Today has been declared National MSP Day 2018, a chance to celebrate the difference that managed IT services are making to UK businesses. To help mark the occasion, the Barracuda MSP team launched The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business...
Digital business transformation creates data management opportunities for MSPs
A lot of hype has been generated about the need to turn data into a strategic business asset as part of a digital business transformation. But, it turns out that the biggest impediment to realizing that vision is reliance on...
Carrie Simpson: Creating long-term prospecting success
If you had asked some our very first customers three or six months into their first campaign with us at Managed Sales Pros, many of them would have declared their programs a failure. Zero deals closed. Many of them left...
Tech Time Warp: Network General — Maker of The Sniffer — Founded
Time for a pop quiz. Was “The Sniffer”: A. The title of a 1959 B-movie B. A piece of barware C. A revolutionary diagnostic tool for Local Area Networks If you guessed C, then you are either a network administrator or...
Cloud 5: Microsoft all in on cloud, more Pentagon cloud deal controversy
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
The end of the GDPR beginning creates new opportunities for MSPs
A new report published by IBM this week suggests the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) being put into effect May 25 will ultimately transform how most organizations manage data. The survey of 1,500 GDPR leaders, conducted by the IBM Institute...
Why security should be a pillar in your MSP marketing strategy
Looking back on my two decades of industry experience, one thing I can say for sure is that while the digital era has brought a huge number of benefits with it, it’s also brought a number of significant disadvantages, too....
ATM security threats: Jackpotting and beyond
It’s easy to forget ATMs have been around so long. When ATM machines began showing up in my Ohio hometown sometime in the late 1970s, my grandmother found the technology incomprehensible. “Isn’t it nice that the banks give you money?”...
Serverless computing is coming to a cloud near you
Over time, we have watched the levels of computing abstraction filter down to a mind-boggling degree. The virtual machine was the first step on the path, allowing us to take a single server and divide it into multiple machines, providing...
Infighting raises additional IoT challenges for MSPs
In theory, the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a trillion-dollar opportunity for IT services providers. The challenge will be determining exactly who inside any organization owns the IoT budget. A new survey of IT and operational technology (OT) stakeholders published...
