Comments on: Verizon Business Surpasses 4,000 Managed Services Customers http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/ Managed Services & Cloud Services Blog for VARs & MSPs Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:25:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-31886 Joe Panettieri Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:10:10 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/#comment-31886 Update: Verizon also is partnering with Nortel on <a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0452153.htm" rel="nofollow">managed telepresence services</a>. Update: Verizon also is partnering with Nortel on managed telepresence services.

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-31693 Joe Panettieri Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:29:42 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/#comment-31693 John: Good to hear your perspectives. And I should have noted that there are numerous alternatives (MSFT, Nortel, etc.) for UC ... but in this particular case I was speaking with Verizon about the CSCO relationship. I think you'll be hearing a lot more from Cisco regarding managed services in the weeks ahead. They have a managed services virtual trade show planned for <a href="http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/03/cisco-preparing-major-managed-services-event/" rel="nofollow">November 18 and 19</a>. We're not involved but I hope to tune in a bit to see what they're discussing... John: Good to hear your perspectives. And I should have noted that there are numerous alternatives (MSFT, Nortel, etc.) for UC … but in this particular case I was speaking with Verizon about the CSCO relationship.

I think you’ll be hearing a lot more from Cisco regarding managed services in the weeks ahead. They have a managed services virtual trade show planned for November 18 and 19. We’re not involved but I hope to tune in a bit to see what they’re discussing…

]]> By: John Kilgore http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-31692 John Kilgore Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:24:28 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/11/13/verizon-surpasses-4000-managed-services-customers/#comment-31692 Joe: we're seeing the exact same success in the small to medium sized businesses that are moving to a UC solution. They want the feature rich technology of UC and find it to be a very good investment. Rest assured, anytime we're selling a Cisco UC solution there's a Managed Services contract stapled to the back of the proposal. If Cisco would just hurry up and give us an "IMPACT" program ourselves to remotely monitor and manage the on-premise equipment we'd be much more effecient in supporting those contracts :) Joe: we’re seeing the exact same success in the small to medium sized businesses that are moving to a UC solution. They want the feature rich technology of UC and find it to be a very good investment.

Rest assured, anytime we’re selling a Cisco UC solution there’s a Managed Services contract stapled to the back of the proposal.

If Cisco would just hurry up and give us an “IMPACT” program ourselves to remotely monitor and manage the on-premise equipment we’d be much more effecient in supporting those contracts :)

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