I spent much of the week at Ingram Micro Cloud Summit in Phoenix, Ariz. There was plenty of managed services chatter at the conference. But as usual, we’ve got too many news leads and too little time. So here are seven managed services blog entries MSPmentor didn’t have time to write for the week ending June 3, 2011.
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Seven Managed Services Blogs MSPmentor Didn’t Write: June 3
Posted June 3rd, 2011 by Joe Panettieri
IBM Focuses On Cloud Service Providers
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Dave Courbanou
When it comes to the cloud IBM is getting aggressive. They’ve launched a new cloud services platform to help communication service providers get an edge on public cloud services. Read on for the scoop…
Jamcracker and Eucalyptus Partner For Private Clouds
Posted September 7th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Eucalyptus Systems is probably best known as the open source private cloud platform provider. Jamcracker is a unified cloud services delivery and management provider. Together, Eucalyptus and Jamcracker are now offering self-service infrastructure clouds to the IT world. Here’s the skinny.
Kaseya Connect User Conference: Top 10 Keynote Highlights
Posted June 2nd, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
During the Kaseya Connect User Conference this morning, CEO Gerald Blackie said the company is marching toward $100 million in annual revenues. Blackie and other Kaseya executives also described the bigger mission for Kaseya 2, a managed services platform that experienced a launch delay from 2009 to early 2010. And that’s not all. Here are 10 highlights from Blackie’s keynote plus additional observations from Kaseya Executive VP Jim Alves and President Mark Sutherland.
BackupAgent, Jamcracker Partner for Backup-On-Demand
Posted April 16th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Some Friday morning SaaS chatter: Cloud services provider Jamcracker has apparently entered into a partnership with online backup software vendor BackupAgent. Under the deal, according to their press release, Jamcracker will make BackupAgent’s eponymous backup-on-demand solution available for resale through their cloud. Here’s the deal.
Kaseya Launches Global SaaS Partner Program
Posted February 25th, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
Kaseya has launched a global Software as a Service partner program. Known as KSP (Kaseya SaaS Partner Program), the initiative allows partners to “promote, refer and market” Kaseya’s SaaS and IT offerings to their respective channels. It’s easy to see what’s in it for Kaseya. The bigger question: What’s in it for partners? And what are the implications for the broader managed services software market? Here are some thoughts.
Telstra, Jamcracker Launch SaaS and Managed Services
Posted November 17th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Talk about a small world. On November 13 I traded email with Mathew Dickerson, a managed service provider in Australia. He and I were discussing how Telstra — one of Australia’s top telecom service providers — may promote managed services and SaaS (software as a service) across the country.
Dell’s Next Move: A Master MSP Strategy
Posted June 23rd, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
As part of its ongoing managed services push, Dell hopes to launch a Master MSP strategy in late 2008 or early 2009, MSPmentor has learned. The move has potential implications for anyone involved in managed services. Here are some of the preliminary details, based on a conversation I had with Greg Davis, vice president and general manager of Dell’s Americas Channel Group.
Jamcracker’s MSP LaunchPad: Ready for Liftoff?
Posted June 18th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Sometime this week, Jamcracker is expected to formally unveil its MSP LaunchPad strategy for managed service providers. Steve Crawford, Jamcracker’s VP of marketing, walked me through the LaunchPad initiative on June 17.
Climbing From Managed Services to SaaS Clouds
Posted April 9th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
The move from managed service provider to software as a service (SaaS) can seem intimidating, but the barriers to market entry continue to fall. Each week, yet another company introduces a SaaS framework that you can plug your managed services business into.
