Category: Tech Insight
Tech Time Warp: The Cray X-MP/48 brings style and substance to supercomputers
This week’s Tech Time Warp takes a closer look at “the world’s most expensive loveseat.” It’s quite the moniker for a pioneering supercomputer, but when you look at the legacy of electrical engineer Seymour Cray, it’s apt. The Cray X-MP/48, which started...
AWS Insights: How profitability scales with services expertise
A survey of 35 Amazon Web Services (AWS) partners reveals that services revenue per dollar of AWS-generated revenue varies widely, depending on the level of expertise and the breadth of services offered across the customer lifecycle. Key findings Conducted by...
Tech Time Warp: Celebrating 30 years of Pixar magic
For many families, going to the movies is as much of a Thanksgiving tradition as parades and pumpkin pie. This week’s Tech Time Warp goes back to Thanksgiving weekend 30 years ago—Pixar’s big break. Toy Story was released in theaters...
Five trends MSPs can be thankful for in 2025
While Thanksgiving has been a national holiday in the U.S. since 1863, the notion of setting aside a day to give thanks reaches as far back as 1623. Fast forward to 2025, and the tech landscape looks very different, but...
Tech Time Warp: A bite-sized story from Apple history — how the Macintosh got its name
The 1984 introduction of the Macintosh computer featured the iconic and still-relevant Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott. More than 40 years later, this advertising masterpiece holds up, as does the brand it launched. Let’s dive into this week’s...
The AI shift: Is It time MSPs turned MIPs?
A Top Down Ventures report forecasts that next-generation managed service providers (MSPs) that are focused on outcomes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) agents, will enjoy 10 to 15 basis points of higher EBITA margins than their current average. The next...
Pioneers in Tech: Robert Fano, a man of many gifts
Technology pioneer Robert Fano’s contributions to computer science are many—so many, indeed, that it would be best to frame them as his Massachusetts Institute of Technology colleague (and fellow innovator) Fernando Carbato did. Fano, he said, had “at least four...
AI-driven change demands faster innovation from MSPs
Ingram Micro CEO Paul Bay is calling on managed service providers (MSPs) and other channel partners to become true business partners to their end customers. AI’s acceleration of change Speaking at the Ingram Micro ONE 2025 conference, Bay noted that...
Tech Time Warp: The early business dealings that set the stage for Microsoft dominance
This week marked the 45th anniversary of a pivotal event in Microsoft history: Nov. 6, 1980, the date the then-fledgling company signed a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for the IBM PC. IBM paid Microsoft $700,000 in...
Tech Time Warp: Three scream-inducing examples of historical malware
Malware is one of the managed service provider’s (MSP’s) worst professional nightmares, so it’s no wonder so many viruses have names that sound like horror movies. In honor of Halloween, let’s take a look at this rogue’s gallery of malware,...
