Comments on: Level Platforms, Managed Services Head for Home http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/01/29/level-platforms-managed-services-head-for-home/ 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/2009/01/29/level-platforms-managed-services-head-for-home/comment-page-1/#comment-41762 Joe Panettieri Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:03:29 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/01/29/level-platforms-managed-services-head-for-home/#comment-41762 Peter: I respect your thoughts but I think you've hit upon two of Microsoft's key challenges with Windows Home Server. 1. most consumers don't know what it's for (yet). 2. And solutions providers don't know Windows Home Server is powerful enough for small offices. (Though your efforts may change that.) Peter: I respect your thoughts but I think you’ve hit upon two of Microsoft’s key challenges with Windows Home Server.

1. most consumers don’t know what it’s for (yet).
2. And solutions providers don’t know Windows Home Server is powerful enough for small offices. (Though your efforts may change that.)

]]> By: Peter Sandiford http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/01/29/level-platforms-managed-services-head-for-home/comment-page-1/#comment-41760 Peter Sandiford Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:02:24 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/01/29/level-platforms-managed-services-head-for-home/#comment-41760 This opportunity is really about the millions of small businesses that have not yet purchased a Small Business Server. Windows Home Server is the same code base as SBS 2003 minus Exchange and Sharepoint, which can now be provided as a complementary hosted offering. So the MSP now delivers all the benefits of a commercial server including local back up etc. as well as end-to-end remote monitoring and management. With all due respect, I don't see open source anywhere near this market anytime soon. This has Microsoft's full support and represents a major business transformation opportunity, paticulary in a recession. So this is a very big opportunity for anybody touching small businesses in the 3-20 desktop range to offer a complete solution including bundled managed services for a new very low price. Our partners are also telling us they are deploying this in workgroup environments in mid sized businesses and enterpises as a departmental solution. So don't get fooled by the name "Home Server". This is very much an industrial strength integrated solution for business that effectively doubles the addressable market for MSPs worldwide. Peter Sandiford CEO Level Platforms www.levelplatforms.com This opportunity is really about the millions of small businesses that have not yet purchased a Small Business Server.

Windows Home Server is the same code base as SBS 2003 minus Exchange and Sharepoint, which can now be provided as a complementary hosted offering. So the MSP now delivers all the benefits of a commercial server including local back up etc. as well as end-to-end remote monitoring and management.

With all due respect, I don’t see open source anywhere near this market anytime soon. This has Microsoft’s full support and represents a major business transformation opportunity, paticulary in a recession. So this is a very big opportunity for anybody touching small businesses in the 3-20 desktop range to offer a complete solution including bundled managed services for a new very low price.

Our partners are also telling us they are deploying this in workgroup environments in mid sized businesses and enterpises as a departmental solution.

So don’t get fooled by the name “Home Server”. This is very much an industrial strength integrated solution for business that effectively doubles the addressable market for MSPs worldwide.

Peter Sandiford
CEO
Level Platforms

http://www.levelplatforms.com

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