Recent Articles
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Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft Join Level 3 Network Partner Program
Fiber-based communications network provider Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) is launching a new Content Delivery Partner (CDP) program for direct resellers, VARs and device vendors, with inaugural partners such as Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), aimed at expanding the reach and value of Level 3’s broadcast and content delivery services. Billing itself as a telepresence-ready network provider, Level…
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ConnectWise Launches $20m Incubator Fund
Under the leadership of Arnie and David Bellini, ConnectWise evolved from an IT services organization to a publisher of professional services automation software that enables managed service providers to organize and optimize their business. Now, the brothers Bellini are launching ConnectWise Capital, a $20 million investment fund to provide channel entrepreneurs and innovators with funding…
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Channel Insider Premiers MSP Spotlight
Channel Insider and MSPtv, a video production arm of Zenith InfoTech, are partnering to produce "MSP Spotlight," a monthly live video talk show on sales, marketing and business optimization in managed services and cloud computing. The show will air on MSPtv.net. "MSP Spotlight," sponsored by Zenith InfoTech, is hosted by Carolyn April, editor of Channel…
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Kaseya, Lenovo Team for PC Managed Services
Lenovo is teaming up with automation specialist Kaseya to educate and enable its community of managed service providers in remote desktop management. Through the alliance announced today, Kaseya and Lenovo will embark on an education effort to expose more MSPs and VARs to emerging opportunities in desktop managed services, with particular emphasis on leveraging Intel…
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Companies Leverage Services to Keep Data Center Lights On
There’s no better way to sell to a customer than to understand their pain points, which is why the most recent Symantec State of the Data Center 2010 survey should pique the interest of most channel executives. The comprehensive study released last week by Applied Research West on behalf of based Symantec shows what makes…
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Former Silverback Master MSP Leaves Dell Behind for Level Platforms
For Do IT Smarter, a master managed service provider that had standardized on Silverback as the MSP platform it offered to its partners, the last two years have been a long road. That’s because Dell, the computer maker that just a few years ago subscribed to the so-called direct-only "religion" and eschewed the channel, decided…