Recent Articles
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N-Able Partners with Intronis, Sees Strong Growth Ahead
Intronis and N-Able Technologies joined forces this week to integrate Intronis’ Online Backup + Recovery with N-able’s N-central 7.0 with Endpoint Security Manager, allowing MSPs to track backup and recovery statuses, notifications, and other events via the same centralized interface that they use to perform remote monitoring and management functions. Boston-based Intronis is a developer…
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Level Platforms Releases Update to Managed Services Platform
Level Platforms’ update to its managed services platform, Managed Workplace 2010, now includes on-site utilities and a Website console, plus support for mobile clients and new Intel vPro productivity enhancements. "It’s a product maturity launch loaded with lots and lots of small features that our partners have been asking for," Peter Sandiford, CEO of Level…
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Managed Services Not for Everyone
My phone rang at 4 a.m. Pacific time. On the other end was a VAR tortured by insomnia (fortunately for me, it was at least 7 a.m. in New York). He had been up all night racking his brain—and for good reason—over the quandary known as managed services. Now, you would think that this is…
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Managed Service Providers of the Year
Channel Insider today announced the first set of winners for its annual Bull’s Eye Awards. The first group is managed service providers and the vendors that support them. Each category has three award levels: Champion, Contender and Challenger. CHALLENGER recognizes a vendor or individual that isn’t in a leadership position today, but exhibits admirable qualities…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
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Gridstore Woos MSPs with NAS Offering
After close to two years of preparation in Ireland, Gridstore has opened its doors in Palo Alto, Calif., and is taking the wraps of its first offering targeted at managed service providers. NASg is an enterprise-class storage platform that delivers unlimited storage capacity, network bandwidth and processing capacity on existing Network Attached Storage resources. It…