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MSPs need to size the scope of multi-cloud computing opportunity
Usage of public cloud computing services is fairly widespread, but a new survey of 130 IT professionals in organizations with more than 500 employees conducted by OpsRamp, a provider of an IT operations management platform, sheds some interesting light on...
Stuart Crawford: The biggest mistake MSPs make on Twitter
For the record, I wasn’t a fan of Twitter. I thought it was just a bunch of noise. I actually compared it to having a conversation at a nightclub while a death-metal band played with their amps turned up to...
Rapid proliferation of data platforms creates significant opportunities for MSPs
Increased complexity is generally a good thing for managed service providers because it adds more stress to IT environments, which usually creates demand for additional managed services. Lately, the greatest complexity involves the number of places data gets stored. Once...
MSPs need to focus on cloud security education
It’s already been well established that the No. 1 concern organizations have about deploying application workloads in the cloud is cloud security. But, it turns out there’s also significant confusion about who is responsible for IT security on a public...
Time for MSPs to get ready for the coming IoT data storm
There’s a storm of data coming unlike any other, and savvy managed service providers should be gearing up for it now. A new report from 451 Research suggests that organizations planning to implement Internet of Things (IoT) projects expect to...
MSPs Start to Tap into the Gig Economy
EY, formally known as Ernst & Young, like a lot of managed service providers (MSPs) is sorely pressed to find the IT professionals it needs to work on specific projects. All told, the provider of consulting, auditing, and managed services...
Is going “all in” with Facebook marketing the right strategy for your MSP?
Facebook, no doubt, is the largest social network today. Every day, all sorts of people from all sorts of places post about life events or what’s happening with their businesses, and make connections with long-lost friends, new neighbors, and others....
This one blog post can put your MSP marketing into high gear
Trust me—This isn’t a blog post you want to skim through. You should print it off, study it, and bookmark it so you can reference it over and over again. The “Wild West” of MSP marketing is here. It’s been...
Carrie Simpson: How to use WannaCry to sell your MSP Services
Aren’t you tired of seeing every second post on LinkedIn being about how none of so-and-so’s clients got hit with WannaCry ransomware and how so-and-so can help protect from it? Are you bored of reading about it by now? I...
Angela Leavitt: Why is MSP lead generation so hard?
I was just on the phone this morning with an MSP who was telling me all about “the good old days.” He said that back when he started his company in 1995, lead generation was easy. He was first to...
