VMware NSX emerges as network management platform
At the VMworld 2018 conference this week, VMware firmly established the role network virtualization overlays will play in managing disparate physical networks from here on in. In addition to revealing that VMware now has 7,500 customers for its NSX network virtualization...
Extended lifecycle of IT equipment starts to force the managed services issue
Most solution providers have added managed services to their portfolio to one degree or another. But, arguably far too many of them are still dependent on reselling products as their primary source of revenue. A new survey of 1,372 IT...
Data management issues are about to create a major opportunity for MSPs
Given the extensive history most IT organizations have managing data leveraging all information to drive a wide variety of digital processes should be a simple enough proposition. But it turns out melding data sources is anything but easy. A new...
Modernization of IT services potentially cuts both ways for MSPs
A major shift in terms of how IT services are monitored and managed that is being driven by a need to correlate events in real time creates both risk and opportunity for managed services providers (MSPs). A survey of 100...
MSPs can look to provide end users with cybersecurity training
Given the costs of investigating security breaches and then cleaning up after them, managed service providers (MSPs) arguably now have a vested interest in training end users to better recognize cybersecurity threats. After all, it’s the MSP that usually absorbs...
Digital business transformation driving more reliance on MSPs
As IT organizations begin to play a much more strategic role in the digital business era a new survey suggests they are relying more on managed service providers (MSP) to handle fundamental operational tasks. A new survey of 404 IT...
Starting gun has fired in MSP race to deliver Kubernetes services
Managed services based on Docker containers running on top of Kubernetes clusters are starting to proliferate beyond the reach of any single public cloud. A new survey of 576 IT leaders published by Diamanti, a provider of bare-metal servers optimized...
CompTIA CEO advises channel partners to mind the widening managed services gap
CompTIA CEO Todd Thibodeaux is warning solution providers that have not yet made the transition to business models based on managed services will soon discover the gap they will need to cross to make that transition is only going to...
Proliferation of file repositories drives greater need for managed services
Much to the probable chagrin of IT leaders the number of places that end users can store files has rapidly expanded. A new survey of 160 IT professionals conducted by Cloudtenna, a provider of enterprise search tools, finds that on...
Advanced Analytics Creates Opportunity for MSPs to Transform IT Operations
A new report published this week by Dresner Advisory Services sheds some light on how IT organizations want to apply advanced analytics to optimize IT operations. The 2018 IT Analytics Market Study finds that the top four management metrics in...
