Managed Services

HP Introduces SureStart Self-Securing BIOS

September 18, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

HP’s SureStart will be a technology differentiator on its high-end notebooks, but the real channel value may be in additional manageability options.

Nirvanix is shutting down its cloud services

Failing Nirvanix Warns Cloud Storage Customers: Move It or Lose It

September 18, 2013 Chris Gonsalves (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Troubled cloud storage provider Nirvanix has its partners scrambling to relocate customers after warning that it will soon close the doors.

Alistair Forbes, general manager of GFI MAX Business Unit

GFI MAX Boasts 8,000 MSPs Now in Network

September 13, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

As the managed services segment is undergoing consolidation and change, GFI MAX is boasting gains in the number of MSPs using its RMM platform.

Ingram Micro global cloud chief Renée Bergeron

Ingram Micro buys Toronto’s SoftCom

September 13, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

Ingram Micro has been early to the game in building a distribution cloud practice, but the Toronto-based Web company is its first cloud acquisition.

OnX Names Paul Khawaja First Canadian President

September 12, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

In his new role, Khawaja aims to continue building on OnX’s position as a partner that can assist customers at any point in their IT transition.

Microsoft partners face a fork in the road

As Microsoft Aspires to Apple Model, Channel Changes

September 4, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Success in buying Nokia could look something like Apple’s juggernaut complete-stack model, but failure could make Microsoft the next BlackBerry.

server sales are up, but revenues are not following

Managed Services Continues Evolution, Growth

September 3, 2013 Larry Walsh (Channelnomics) Comments Off

Everyone wants to talk about the growth in cloud computing. By the end of the decade, cloud computing will generate more than $200 billion in annual sales for vendors and solution providers. Pretty good, right?

Luke Walling, vice president of SMB sales and operations for North America at AVG.

AVG Offers Buyout Program to PacketTrap MSPs

August 26, 2013 Robert Dutt Comments Off

AVG will allow MSPs using Dell’s discontinued PacketTrap RMM product to use Managed Workplace free for up to a year and offer switchers priority support.