Month: July 2018
Cloud 5: Amazon Prime Day fiasco, Walmart cozies up with Microsoft
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...
Brad Stoller: Is talent temptation hurting your sales pipeline?
When it comes to growing a business, talent can be both a blessing and a curse. That might sound like a strange idea at first, but having natural talents can influence the choices we make and impact the growth of...
IT Infrastructure Paradox Creates Opportunity for MSPs
Something akin to a paradox has emerged when it comes to the management of IT infrastructure on the age of the cloud. A new survey of 401 IT leaders conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Virtual Instruments, a provider...
MSP marketing is an opportunity to have a conversation
People view marketing in a wide range of different ways and, unfortunately, almost all of them are wrong. Some see it as a proverbial megaphone — a chance to blast their message out into the ether to see how far...
Residential managed services: New frontier or urban legend?
Among the reams of material I read each week about cyber security, I saw that the rise of residential managed services is something of an “MSP urban legend.” People keep saying it’s going to happen, but it hasn’t. At least...
Battle for control over network edge begins in earnest
A battle for control over the layer of abstraction that will enable services to be delivered to the network edge is now being waged between various types of hypervisors and container technologies. Various types of embedded systems that make up...
Alex Hoff: 10 Ways a small MSP can punch above its weight
Sometimes we associate being big with being powerful and strong, but being small doesn’t mean you can’t compete — you just need to be smarter and more efficient than the other guys. Here are 10 things you can do as...
How MSPs can help secure the power grid
Much of the eastern United States has been slogging through a hot, humid summer. Places like Burlington, Vermont recently recorded its highest low ever, with the temperature not dropping below 80 degrees at night. A stifling summer isn’t the time when...
Cloud 5: 5G cloud impact, Amazon’s custom chip strategy
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. And without further delay, here we go with this week’s links:
Most organizations plan to reevaluate cloud computing strategy
A whopping 72 percent of 727 respondents to a global survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Virtustream, the cloud service provider arm of Dell Technologies, plan to revisit their organizations cloud strategy within the next two years. The...
