Managed service providers considering a shift into cloud services are faced with a number of considerations: What should I offer? How much do I need to lay out in infrastructure costs? How can I get the word out? Each of those three questions demand answers that, if incorrect, could severely impact an MSP’s success.
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Considering the Cloud? Find Your Sweet Spot, CA Advises
Posted January 3rd, 2012 by Charlene OHanlon
Ingram Micro Cloud Launches for VARs and MSPs
Posted November 8th, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
Ingram Micro continues to accelerate its cloud strategy, today launching Ingram Micro Cloud and a related marketplace for VARs and MSPs that are seeking a range of SaaS and cloud solutions. In an MSPmentor FastChat Video, Ingram Micro VP Renee Bergeron says the distributor’s cloud strategy is a natural extension of Ingram’s services strategy for partners. Here’s the update plus some perspective from MSPmentor.
Microsoft Acquires AVICode For Cloud App Management
Posted October 12th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Microsoft has acquired AVICode, Inc., a specialist in .NET application and service monitoring. Is there a managed services hook here? You bet. AVIcode will be rolled into the Microsoft System Center, giving MSPs a unified view into physical, virtualized, and cloud applications. Here’s some more perspective on the deal.
Accelops Launches Co-Branded Managed Services for MSPs
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
At first glance, AccelOps has launched a channel partner program for traditional VARs. But take a closer look, and you’ll discover the AccelOps partner program also targets managed services providers that want to offer remote monitoring, managed security and managed infrastructure services. Translation: In some ways, AccelOps is the latest in a growing list of RMM (remote monitoring and management) software suppliers targeting MSPs. Can AccelOps stand out from the RMM crowd? Here are some thoughts.
ServiceSource: A Secret Sauce for SaaS Channel Management?
Posted June 17th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Question: How do big software companies build their SaaS channel management applications and programs? In some cases, the answer involves ServiceSource, a cloud-based revenue performance solution that appears to be catching on. The latest adopter is CA Technologies (formerly CA Inc.). Here are some details.
Seven Managed Services Blog Entries We Didn’t Write: March 19
Posted March 19th, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
Another week has flown by. Missed deadlines. Dropped cell phone calls. Delayed video posts. Boy, I’m on a roll. Kidding aside, here are seven managed services blog entries that MSPmentor didn’t have time to write for the week ending March 19, 2010.
NetQoS: Powering CA’s Network Assurance Solution
Posted February 17th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Back in September 2009, we mentioned that CA, Inc. had acquired network monitoring solution provider NetQoS, but we didn’t hear much after that. Seeking answers, I spoke with NetQoS and CA about the acquisition, what NetQoS brought to the table, and what they can offer a managed services provider.
Systems Management: Targeting the Big Four
Posted January 21st, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
Nimsoft and Groundwork Open Source are strikingly different companies. And they rarely run into each other in competitive settings. Now here’s the irony: Both companies claim they are displacing BMC, CA, HP Openview and IBM Tivoli in some enterprise accounts. And yes, there’s a managed services hook here. Let me explain.
IBM Making Managed Services Moves?
Posted January 8th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
We spend quite a bit of time on MSPmentor covering small but fast-growing software companies that cater to the managed services market. But occasionally an industry titan will catch our attention. A case in point: IBM made a key move this week, and it involved small and midsized communication service providers (CSPs). Does this mean the Big 4 systems management companies (BMC, CA, HP, IBM) are finally waking up to managed services? Here’s some perspective and speculation.
Where Are The Managed Services IPOs?
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
If the managed service market is so darn hot, when can we expect MSP platform providers to begin launching initial public offerings?
Nimsoft: Small Acquisition, Big IT Management Aspirations
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
How do you attract managed service providers and disrupt a traditional software market dominated by CA, BMC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM-Tivoli? For Nimsoft, the answer to that riddle involves organic growth coupled with acquisitions.
Changing Markets Could be Perfect Time for Report Automation
Posted December 5th, 2007 by Charlene OHanlon
Changes in the way companies receive and consume data are forcing many MSPs to change the way they manage that data. And as that relationship becomes more complex, so, too, should the way MSPs manage the information about that data.
