Tag: MSP opportunity
Digital business transformation requires data engineering heroes
Most organizations intuitively realize that sound data management and data engineering practices are at the core of any digital business transformation practice. However, a survey of 150 IT professionals working for organizations with at least 4,000 employees published this week...
New eBook: 6 Can’t-Miss Opportunities for MSPs in 2021
MSPs face an unprecedented amount of exciting change and opportunities in 2021, as the world recovers from a global pandemic and the shifts in the workforce and cybersecurity landscapes that ensued because of it. The widespread emergence of 5G, AI,...
MSPs gain digital business transformation ground
A global annual survey of 1,350 business and IT executives conducted by Jigsaw Research on behalf of NTT Ltd. suggests that as organization invest more in software to drive digital business transformation initiatives, there has been a corresponding rise in...
MSPs need to get ahead of coming IT rebellion
A survey of 1,003 individuals, published this week by Eagle Hill Consulting, confirms what most managed service providers (MSPs) have long known in their hearts: more than three quarters (78 percent) respondents said technology makes their job harder. Most IT...
MSPs (and SMBs) can benefit from zero trust cybersecurity
The way network security has tended to work is you have a set of people you trust like employees, who you usually let in via username and password. This approach worked great when everyone was inside the firewall, but we...
MSPs should bet on all platforms to win
There’s been an ongoing debate about the relative strategic importance of public clouds versus on-premises IT environments for several years. The general consensus today is that the deployment of on-premises servers will continue to decline as more workloads shift to...
Reliance on open source software expands opportunities for MSPs
One of the most attractive things about open source software is that it’s free. Many IT professionals routinely download it simply because they don’t have to get approval from anybody. And quite a few IT organizations have even gone so...
MSPs find opportunity in cloud security gaps
Cloud security issues are creating a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) as organizations of all sizes continue to struggle with the shared responsibility model that cloud service providers require customers to embrace. A survey of 303 IT professionals...
IoT security and MSPs: Just the beginning
The continued proliferation of IoT will present both challenges and opportunities for MSPs in 2021. Projections put the number of IoT devices by 2021 at over 35 billion. This parade of IoT devices ranges from security cameras to appliances to...
MSPs need to take charge of IT trends in the post COVID-19 era
One of the consistent themes that has emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as it pertains to IT is that, rather than witnessing massive shifts in how IT is employed, there’s simply been an acceleration of adoption. Everything from videoconferencing to...