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Security software provider Sophos is willing to consider potential acquisitions in the storage market, according to Senior VP Michael McGuinness. During a Sophos partner conference today in Las Vegas, the company described a “complete security” strategy that includes endpoint security, unified threat management (UTM), mobile device management (MDM), encryption, and other services for VARs and MSPs. It’s still hypothetical, but storage could be an interesting addition to that long-term strategy.
Storage and cloud automation provider iWave Software, will be demonstrating its iWave Storage Automator version 6 this week at EMC World. The solution lets solution providers give their customers more control over their cloud-based storage environments while taking away some of the complexity of managing such environments.
Intronis, which promotes cloud storage and online backup to managed services providers (MSPs), has raised $3.85 million to fuel company expansion, CEO Kent Plunkett (pictured) has confirmed to MSPmentor. The investors include…
Remote monitoring and management (RMM) provider LabTech Software has unveiled a multi-vendor backup dashboard to help make it easier for managed service providers to manage customer environments when they include technologies from multiple vendors. The new dashboard puts it all on a single pane of glass for centralized management for data protection environments.
Windows-based storage performance software provider Condusiv Technologies (formerly Diskeeper Corp.) has named networking technology channel veteran Nick Tidd (pictured) to the job of senior vice president of global sales. Tidd brings decades of networking technology channel experience to the company, having served as North America president at D-Link and channel chief at 3Com before 3Com was acquired by HP.
What if you could take a blueprint of an entire SMB (small and midsize business) network and reproduce it (or virtualize it) in the cloud for safe keeping? That’s the concept behind the latest Axcient Cloud Continuity upgrade. Axcient claims the updated cloud service allows SMBs to launch complete virtual offices in the cloud if the primary network goes down.
A poolside party at the Kaseya Connect 2012 user conference just wrapped up in Las Vegas. During a few dozen conversations with managed services providers (MSPs) and Kaseya employees, I picked up several more anecdotes worth sharing with the MSPmentor readership. Here’s the update.
When the Kaseya Connect 2012 User Conference kicks off this week (May 1-4, Las Vegas), it’s safe to expect the managed services and IT automation event to focus on at least five technology categories for MSPs: (1) Business management and automation software, (2) cloud backup and disaster recovery services, (3) infrastructure management, (4) managed print services and (5) cloud security and managed security services. Here’s a closer look at each category.
While half of MSPs are planning to offer an offsite backup and recovery solution, the majority have not taken steps to support their plans, according to a recent informal survey conducted by Modular Data Protection Services (DPS) Inc, a company that works with cloud data protection. Modular DPS surveyed resellers of Intel AppUp Small Business Service from Intel Corp.
Cloud-based unified network management platform provider Servoyant has added about 100 improvements to its most recent release, Servoyant 5, but the star of the upgrade is new support for LogMeIn Pro. And while Servoyant is keeping prices the same in its new release, it’s throwing in a license for LogMeIn Pro to sweeten the deal.
Barracuda Networks Inc., a provider of security, data protection and application delivery solutions, recently announced the new Barracuda Backup Service with VMware host support, enabling backup of guest virtual machines. The new service also provides deduplicated images of virtual servers that can be transferred offsite for comprehensive disaster recovery protection. The functionality is available free of charge for existing Barracuda Backup Service customers with an active Energize Updates subscription.
Nirvanix, a provider of enterprise-class cloud storage services, has announced a two-fold increase in its cloud storage capacity in the Dallas area through an agreement with CyrusOne. The addition of this data center in Dallas, marks the second data center location in Dallas for Nirvanix, which accompanies seven additional data centers in geographically diverse locations worldwide.
NovaStor, a software solutions company for data protection and availability, has announced the availability of the new version of its NovaBACKUP software for protecting workstations, servers, and virtual machines running under Hyper-V and VMware. New features include universal restore, access to individual files and folders within an image, as well as options which broaden backup flexibility.
The popular remote access service provider LogMeIn Inc. is launching its own cloud data storage and sharing service to enable users to securely share information across PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones and Android devices.
Many financial services firms have no confidence in their IT organizations to recover data after a disaster. According to the recent Acronis Disaster Recovery Index, 68 percent of U.S. financial services organizations lack confidence in their companies’ backup and disaster recovery capabilities, and only 36 percent believe they have ample resources. Only 32 percent believe they have adequate technologies to execute effective backup and disaster recovery.
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) continues to invest in the Intel Hybrid Cloud strategy, which allows MSPs to promote server software and services on a pay-as-you-go basis to customers. But the really interesting part of the Intel Hybrid Cloud effort involves Intel AppUp — a small business service catalog that includes a growing portfolio of applications that MSPs can offer to their end-customers.
Everybody’s talking about Dell’s (NASDAQ:DELL) recent acquisition spree – five since the beginning of 2012 and three of those in the last week. From AppAssure to SonicWall to Wyse to Clerity Solutions to Make Technologies. And that adds to a whole bunch of acquisitions in the last year including SecureWorks which was recently recognized by Forrester Research as one of the leaders among big managed security service providers. Forrester particularly cited Dell Secureworks for the quality of its consultants and engineers.
StorageCraft, which promotes ShadowProtect backup and disaster recovery software to MSPs, has generated at least 100 percent annual revenue growth each of the past three years. And StorageCraft expects to repeat that feat yet again this year. So how is StorageCraft continuing to grow and expand within the hyper-competitive storage and BDR markets? StorageCraft VP of Marketing and Business Development Curt James (pictured) offered MSPmentor some background today.
Information Services Group (ISG), a market intelligence and advisory services company, recently launched a new Consumption Management service to help enterprises address IT asset management and reconciliation.
Nimbus Data Systems, the sustainable storage and Flash storage provider, has added three new executives to its sales management team. The company’s newest executive members will lead the company’s efforts to expand Nimbus’ global sales figures, according to a company press release. What’s even more interesting is that Nimbus has taken all of three new hires away from NetApp, another network storage provider. The three new executives are as follows:
Avere Systems, the network-attached storage (NAS) provider for enterprise IT departments, has released a new version of the Avere Edge Filer as part of the company’s new NAS architecture designed to help the company’s enterprise customers maximize the benefits of Flash storage and virtualization.
Datto, a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) company that works closely with MSPs, has completed an initial integration with ConnectWise. By integrating Datto devices into ConnectWise, partners can monitor device alerts directly through ConnectWise rather than simply through email, according to Shannon Kohn (pictured), marketing and channel relations director at Datto. Here are more details.
I realize managed services is a business model. And the MSP market is far more than PSA, RMM and BDR software. Still, managed services providers (MSPs) and their software partners often are joined at the hip, working together to automate IT management and customer support. So where is the managed services software industry heading next? My educated guesses are below…
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