Tag Archive for Managed Services

Controlling Hidden Costs Boosts MSP Success

Handling hidden costs is a kind of business self-awareness. If an MSP can identify and manage these costs, you’ll know your business better. And that helps you set a course for managed services success.

ConnectWise CEO Bellini advises partners how to catch the wave

Arnie Bellini, CEO of ConnectWise

ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini says that while technology solution providers are beset by new challenges, the dynamics of the mature and nature of IT innovation continue to create ways for companies to reinvent themselves.

Virtual data protection vendor Altaro launches MSP program

Altaro, which is focused largely on Hyper-V and the SMB market, has launched both a new MSP program and a free multi-tenanted console to manage it.

Aerohive extends value-oriented Connect line to all access points and switches

Aerohive introduced a new, value-focused model on two of their entry level APs earlier this year as a test case. Results were positive and it has been extended across the whole portfolio, including high end solutions.

Making Veeam VCSP/reseller partnerships work

A VeeamON panel featured a frank discussion with VCSPs and their reseller partners on how resellers can partner effectively to get into the cloud, and overcoming the inevitable hurdles on the way.

Riverbed looking for more partners to get into managed services

At their Partner Event. Riverbed highlighted the success of Kentucky-based Tier 3 Technologies, which transitioned from an on-prem VAR to a SteelFusion and SteelCentral-focused MSP in less than three years.

New Service Delivery Platform will have broad partner applicability: Riverbed

Riverbed says that the new platform will make it easy, for the first time, for traditional networking partners to deliver services around Riverbed technology.

Riverbed opens ‘gold mine’ for partners with launch of partner services toolkit around Aternity

Riverbed looks to enhance partners’ selling motions around SteelCentral with a new toolkit to show off the Aternity technology acquired last year to customers.

Tigerpaw adds full Managed Print Services support with new integration

The new Tigerpaw integration is not just aimed at allowing their present MSPs to add a managed print services capability, but at reaching out to office equipment dealers who need to diversify their businesses to survive.

Elastifile brings high performance flash-native hybrid cloud data infrastructure to market

Elastifile leverages its distributed metadata model to produce a scale-out, flash-native distributed file system that provides both storage and data lifecycle management.

Massive partner recruitment a key goal of new Scale Computing channel program

The restructured Scale program accommodates managed service providers for the first time, and also makes provision for referral partners.