Category: Tech Insight
Some IT trends you should be thinking about to stay relevant in 2020
As I sit down to craft my last blog post of the year, it only seems appropriate to look towards 2020 and beyond. Many smart MSPs are also taking this time to assess what they can do to help their...
Tech Time Warp: Why Perl — the “duct tape of the internet” — was such a gem
The programming language Perl ended up becoming the backbone of Yahoo and a million other websites, but when Larry Wall released Perl 1.0 for machines running the UNIX operating system December 18, 1987, he was simply sharing his personal code...
MSPs need to get in the blockchain game
Blockchain burst onto the scene in a big way over the past decade. It propelled cryptocurrencies to new heights and spawned a whole new class of cybercriminals, with cryptojacking. However, blockchain’s long-hyped benefits to MSPs have been uneven and slow...
Vendors want to put machine learning in reach of more companies
Machine learning requires a good data set. It requires someone to build a model to make use of that data and make reasonable predictions about something, such as how many visitors are likely to buy, how many applicants deserve credit,...
Tech Time Warp: The high and lows of the AltaVista search engine
Since “google” is now legitimately considered a verb (per Merriam-Webster), it’s hard to remember a world in which another search engine was considered innovative. However, there was life before Google — and it was called AltaVista.
Edge computing consortiums start to multiply to the benefit of MSPs
When vendors band together to promote the adoption of a standard via a consortium, it’s usually a sign that it will benefit managed service providers (MSPs). At the Edge Computing World Conference this week, the Eclipse Foundation, which now oversees...
Content Shield now integrates with Barracuda RMM
The modern workforce is becoming more mobile. Often, businesses have remote workers and road warriors with laptops who can connect any time, at any place. Unsurprisingly, this poses security challenges for MSPs tasked with protecting customers who use these devices....
Shift to the hybrid cloud drives increased reliance on MSPs
Just about everyone agrees that more application workloads will be moving into the cloud. The only real question now, is to what degree. A survey of 508 IT professionals conducted by Internap (INAP), a provider of managed services, finds that...
AWS re:Invent should have lots of news for MSPs
This week is AWS re:Invent, the company’s massive annual customer conference taking place in Las Vegas. It’s typically packed with news about new features and services, and you should be paying attention to what new stuff could benefit your clients...
Ten technology trends MSPs can be thankful for in 2019
The arrival of Thanksgiving once again presents an opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to take stock of the opportunities that lay before them. With the spirit of the holiday in mind, here are ten technology trends benefiting MSPs, as...
