Month: January 2018
Channel Chat: How joining a peer group can help you find MSP success
Owning an MSP can be lonely. Most of the people you talk to on a regular basis, whether they’re your spouse, your friends, or even other local business owners that you know, don’t understand what it’s like to run an...
Smart cars require smarter cities, and the cloud should have a big role
There have been lots of stories in the last year about the move to edge computing. The argument goes that with something like an autonomous vehicle, you can’t afford the latency to go to the cloud to get an answer...
Relationship between internal IT teams and MSPs evolves rapidly
A survey of 1,000 senior IT leaders conducted by TEKsystems finds that more than a third (35 percent) plan to increase spending on IT outsourcing in 2018, a six-point increase over 2017. Nearly half (47 percent) also reported that spending on...
Tech Time Warp: Happy birthday to Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
Born Jan. 30, 1925, Douglas Engelbart isn’t a household name for most people, but we all know—and many of us can’t live without—his most famous invention: the computer mouse. The Portland, Oregon, native served as a Navy radar technician in...
Cloud 5: UK hospitals can use public cloud, the impact of a cloud outage
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...
Threat detection emerges as major opportunity for MSPs
Threat detection appears to be all the rage when it comes to IT security. Both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google are becoming much more focused on providing threat detection services. In the case of AWS, that means acquiring sqrll,...
IBM finally returns to positive revenue driven by cloud biz
For 22 quarters or 5.5 long years, IBM reported negative revenue growth, but last week the company finally announced a positive quarter. Revenue increased to $22.54 billion — and that beat analysts’ estimates. A good portion of that could be attributed...
Robin Robins: How to know with absolute certainty what customers want and will buy
Are you having trouble figuring out what additional services your customers want? What offers will get the best response? What you need to be able to do or say to get welcomed in to talk instead of being blocked, screened,...
Battle for control of the public cloud intensifies
The fight for control over application workloads moving into the public cloud is starting to resemble a knock-down drag-out brawl. The catalyst for this conflict is the accelerated rate at which application workloads are moving into public clouds. A new...
Tech Time Warp: The Not-So Happy99 Worm
The email users of January 1999 were an innocent bunch. Fresh from seeing “You’ve Got Mail” at the box office, they received emails with the attachment Happy99.exe and thought nothing about double-clicking. One rather lame “fireworks” display later, most of...