Tag: MSP opportunity

Edge computing consortiums start to multiply to the benefit of MSPs

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...

/ December 12, 2019
Shift to the hybrid cloud drives increased reliance on MSPs

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...

/ December 3, 2019
Hybrid cloud computing opportunity starts to manifest for MSPs

Hybrid cloud computing opportunity starts to manifest for MSPs

Most IT organizations want to embrace hybrid cloud computing, but most are far away from achieving that goal. In fact, a survey of 2,650 IT professionals conducted by the research firm Vanson Bourne, on behalf of Nutanix, suggests a large...

/ November 19, 2019
Helping SMBs find the balance between low and high-tech cybersecurity strategies

Helping SMBs find the balance between low and high-tech cybersecurity strategies

Cybersecurity is among the top priorities for companies concerned with growing threats. Yet, many SMBs are not making cybersecurity a top priority. In fact, 43 percent of cyberattacks are targeted at SMBs, but only 14 percent are prepared for an...

/ October 24, 2019
MSPs and schools can be a good cybersecurity partnership

MSPs and schools can be a good cybersecurity partnership

Achievement tests, rumbling school buses, and Friday night football are a few signs that the educational ecosystem is up and running again for another academic year. Schools are increasingly on the radar of hackers, who view schools as repositories of...

/ October 23, 2019
Why you should make time to attend MSP conferences

Why you should make time to attend MSP conferences

The IT conference season is a very busy period when dozens of conferences aimed at IT Solution Providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) take place worldwide. Wherever you are in the world, there will be an MSP-focused conference near to...

/ October 21, 2019
Survey suggests large portions of IT budgets are being wasted

Survey suggests large portions of IT budgets are being wasted

A new report on IT spending trends for the coming year suggests there is a significant opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) to help organizations get a better handle on where and how IT budgets are being allocated.

/ October 17, 2019
Is “normal” behavior holding you and your business back from success?

Is “normal” behavior holding you and your business back from success?

This shocking statement just came in from the US National Library of Medicine regarding diets: “They all work…when you stick to them.” Back when I was teaching fitness classes, the most common question I would get was “What is the...

/ October 16, 2019 / 1 Comment
Survey uncovers massive digital business transformation gap for MSPs to fill

Survey uncovers massive digital business transformation gap for MSPs to fill

A global survey published today in advance of a FutureStack event in London hosted by New Relic, provider of a platform for monitoring applications and infrastructure, suggests the rise of digital business transformation is likely to be a boon to...

/ October 16, 2019
Bots with conversational interfaces come to Managed Services

Bots with conversational interfaces come to Managed Services

Managed service providers (MSPs) should start moving now toward incorporating conversational interfaces into their customer service applications. Chat bots that rely on natural language interfaces are already employed on the Web. The next wave of these bots, however, will support...

/ October 8, 2019 / 1 Comment