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Industrialized, Low Cost IT Services The New Norm
Gartner this week touted the adoption of industrialized, low-cost IT services (ILCS) as one of the best ways CIOs can reduce the cost of keeping the lights on in the coming years. A subset of both managed services and cloud services–certainly leveraging the benefits of cloud architecture–ILCS is best seen in the burgeoning infrastructure utility…
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Managed Security Services Continue Growth Pace
New research out from market analysis firm Infonetics Research showed that in spite of a stagnant economy, managed security services are experiencing a brisk rate of growth with no signs of letting up through the next few years. In 2011, Infonetics believes that the managed security market will reach 13 percent growth. By 2015, Infonetics…
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Zenith Infotech Spins off Managed Services Group
Remote monitoring and cloud computing solutions provider Zenith Infotech announced that its managed services business unit has been spin off and is now operating as a new and separate company called Zenith RMM. The company noted Summit Partners made a “sizable” growth equity investment. Summit’s John Carroll and Jason Glass will join the Zenith RMM…
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SonicWALL Woos MSPs with New Partner Program
Network security vendor SonicWALL rolled out a new managed service provider program this month that it says will provide MSPs more flexible monthly service billing and give them better tools to manage their SonicWall-enabled service portfolio. "At SonicWALL, we continuously strive to drive technology, but we also understand the business challenges that our partners are…
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IronKey, Imation Partner on Secure Cloud Access
IronKey, a provider of secure data and online access platforms, announced a partnership with data storage and protection specialist Imation dedicated to helping businesses store, protect and connect to cloud-based data and services. The partnership would allow IronKey to focus its efforts on helping enterprises secure access to cloud-based Internet services, the companies said in…
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MSP Acquisition: TCI Buys Bravura Networks
Managed services provider Bravura Networks, which operates in San Diego and Chicago, has become part of the Technology Capital Investors (TCI) portfolio of MSP partners through an acquisition. The deal marks one of many that TCI has struck over the past few years as it looks to build a network of large managed service providers…