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MSP Success: Connecting Point Stresses Uptime
Las Vegas-based solution provider Connecting Point doesn’t sell its customers managed services. After all, not even the people who build managed services can agree on a definition of the term. If those who sell managed services can’t agree on what it means, then will customers understand the term? No, and that’s why Connecting Point sells…
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Gartner: Still No Economic Recovery for IT Spending, Sales
Gartner is now forecasting a 6 percent decline in IT spending for 2009, representing a more significant decline than the market research firm’s previous forecast of a 3.8 percent decline. Gartner says that all four major segments of IT spending will experience declines—hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications. "While the global economic downturn shows signs…
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The Cloud`s Complex Future
A couple of weeks ago, I mused about the role of solution and managed service providers in the rapidly evolving cloud computing world. Cloud computing is, without a doubt, fast becoming more than just a theory but a preferred reality for the delivery of applications and services. And everywhere I go, everyone from large integrators…
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Tone Software Rolls Out Partner Program for MSPs
Tone Software Corp., an Anaheim, Calif.-based provider of end-to-end monitoring and management solutions, launched the ReliaTel-Streamline Partner Plus Program, providing managed service providers (MSPs), integrators, value added resellers (VARs) and channel partners with strategic sales, marketing and engineering support, the company says. The program is designed to empower Tone’s ReliaTel-Streamline MSP partners to build managed…
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Watching Old Friends Become Enemies
In a global virtual press and analyst roundtable, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior said blade servers being developed by Cisco for its Unified Computing Systems are not intended to compete with existing servers offered by IBM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard or Sun Microsystems. Rather, she says, the UCS strategy is to put the assets in place to help…
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N-able Puts Retail Vertical in Sights
N-able Technologies is building an industry focus around retail much as it’s done with medical and financial in the past. With retailers trying to drive efficiencies throughout their organizations because of the poor economy, N-able is looking ahead to a growing business opportunity, said Mike Cullen, vice president of sales at N-able Technologies. The opportunity…