Here’s a quick tidbit of info that you can use on sales calls: “Best-in-class” companies experienced an 88% average jump in application availability, a 30% average cost savings and improved application response times for business-critical applications by using managed network services, according Aberdeen Group (now owned by Harte-Hanks Company).
The research was sponsored in part by Virtela — an MSP that recently launched a secure video extranet service.
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Actually, the concept of managed services was born in Fortune 500 companies such as HP, EMC, Johnson & Johnson, Staples and others….most just didn’t realize that it was translatable to a broader marketplace, as the technology, such as broadband access, wasn’t very developped at the time.
We based our model on our experiences as server and desktop managers and directors at larger companies, and went from there. Of course, now, it’s possible to outsource much of the technical side of things, so the costs of entry and continued delivery have dropped dramatically…