CloudJumper thinks its option of a concurrent user licensing model will be particularly popular in larger enterprise accounts, because rather than a license for each named user, it requires only licenses for the maximum number using the offering at the same time.
Datto is looking to disrupt a highly commoditized market, attract a significant number of new prospects for its channel, and provide upgrade options to better monetize the offering.
Asigra looks to fill a void in the marketplace by providing its MSPs with a tool for snapshot management in AWS, which will assist partners with workload migrations to AWS and provide a service for which they can charge.
The HPE ProLiant Easy Connect Managed Hybrid solution is a subscription based offering for small businesses and ROBO environments. But while American partners get access to it in a couple weeks, Canadian ones will have to wait a while – like until Q4.
DH2i partners with Rackspace to make its container management software available as a cloud offering for SQL. They see potential to expand with other cloud provider partners, and with other Microsoft software, and see it as a valuable managed service for their own partners.
The new version of AVG’s RMM platform reworks the platform around the MSPs business processes, greatly reducing installation time and building customizable customer service plans right into the RMM solution.
The new functionality enhances a platform for MSPs based on extreme simplicity and a lower price point. Atera is making a push into North America this year, in particular among solution providers who have been turned off by the complexity of getting an MSP business up and running.
New AVG SMB chief Fred Gerritse recently talked with ChannelBuzz about the impact of recent management changes on the company’s strategy and Canadian presence, and about how AVG is now looking to enhance the markets for its SMB solutions and the skills of the partners who sell them.
Intronis is now Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda. They have also leveraged Barracuda’s hardware to provide an appliance option for partners, the Barracuda Backup – Intronis MSP Edition
VAR Dynamics completes a major restructuring with a name change to highlight the company’s focus on its platform rather than the services on top, and to illustrate that the company’s base has also moved beyond VARs to include other types of partners.
Auvik Networks’ Alex Hoff on how MSPs can build profitability by better understanding their clients’ networks.
IDDriven has designed a SaaS offering that is full featured while also simple to use, and which they will be selling through a channel that they are looking to grow.
Technology from the newly announced acquisition of PSA provider Vorex upgrades Kaseya PSA tools, and propels a takeaway offer aimed at customers of competing solutions.
Alex Hoff on Auvik’s first year in the managed services arena and what it sees coming through 2016 in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast.
Softchoice adds Dell to their Keystone Managed Services portfolio, to provide a complementary wrap to Dell’s own ProSupport services.
HEAT has not had an out-of-the-box offering designed for MSPs to date, and is remedying that with HEAT MSP Cloud, which adds new features and capabilities specifically for MSPs to the core HEAT cloud service management offering.
New StorageCraft channel chief Marvin Blough talks with ChannelBuzz about the plans to take the company to the next level, which include a new cloud offering this week.
SmartPrint strengthens its claim to being Canada’s largest independent MPS provider by acquiring the Toronto MPS business of Lasercorp, which is highly focused on legal and professional services in downtown Toronto.
Kaseya has also released a new survey highlighting the practices being following by the most successful MSPs today.
Some new year’s advice from Alex Hoff of Auvik Networks on how to get rid of old habits that may be harmful to your MSP business.
