masterIT Provides Education Amid Gulf Coast Disasters

Talk about timely, on-point messaging. MasterIT, one of our MSPmentor 100 companies, is hosting a “non-technical” symposium October 30 at the FedEx Institute of Technology in Memphis, Tenn.

The timing and positioning of this event offer five key lessons to rival managed service providers. Here they are:

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IBackup Recruits 2,000 Online Storage Resellers

At what point does the online backup market become saturated? I ask myself that question at least once a week. The reason: I get flooded with emails, voicemails and press releases about managed service providers and resellers signing up for online backup services.

The latest example: Pro Softnet Corp. says its IBackup service now has more than 2,000 reseller partners and 150 new resellers are signing up per month.

Here’s how managed service providers can continue to compete — and differentiate — in the managed storage market.

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Will Managed Storage Providers Emulate HP?

If you’re wondering how managed storage services will evolve in the business market, perhaps you should keep an eye on the customer industry. There, Hewlett-Packard and a bunch of start-ups are launching online storage services that promote simple file access and file sharing.

Here’s a look at how the consumer managed storage market is evolving, and how it may soon impact the small business market. Read More >

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