We didn’t exactly race across the finish line this week. A range of deadlines consumed our team’s collective bandwidth. Lots of blogs didn’t get written. Here are seven managed services blog entries the MSPmentor team didn’t have a chance to write for the week ending Jan. 29, 2010.
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Seven Managed Services Blog Entries We Didn’t Write: Jan. 29
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Joe Panettieri
ManageEngine: Managed Services Meets SaaS
Posted December 10th, 2009 by Joe Panettieri
As we’ve mentioned in recent days, a flood of new managed services software will hit the market in December 2009 and January 2010. But I didn’t have a ManageEngine upgrade on my radar. Until now. Here’s why.
ZOHO: Blending SaaS And Managed Services
Posted July 23rd, 2009 by Joe Panettieri
Consider two of the biggest questions facing MSPs: First, how will managed services and SaaS (software as a service) converge with one another? Second, what role will MSPs play in that convergence? Take a look at ZOHO Corp. and you might begin to find some key trends and answers. Here’s why.
ManageEngine + Zoho = Managed SaaS Services?
Posted February 26th, 2009 by Joe Panettieri
Quick, name a company in the managed services market that successfully competes against Google Apps, Salesforce.com and Microsoft — all at the same time. Before you answer, consider this name: AdventNet — which owns Zoho (SaaS applications) and ManageEngine (managed services software). Take a closer look, and you’ll discover Zoho and ManageEngine are cross-leveraging their technologies. Here’s how.
Can Amazon’s Cloud Reduce MSP Hosting Costs?
Posted January 21st, 2009 by Devanand
If you are a start-up managed service provider, I would recommend taking a look at Amazon Web Services. It is very promising and it helps you host your software on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), store the data on a networked drive EBS (Elastic Block Store), and backup the data on to the S3 (Simple Storage Service) with an uptime guarantee of 99.95%. All for less than $99 per month. Here’s what that means for MSPs.
HP OpenView Under Attack (Again)
Posted December 29th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Small, nimble software companies — some of them promoting open source, many of them leveraging closed source — continue to attack big, legacy network and systems management platforms.
How to Start A Managed Services Business In 2009
Posted December 22nd, 2008 by Devanand
If you have been dilly-dallying with the idea of starting a managed services business, look no further, 2009 is the ideal year for you to become an MSP. For a complete guide on how to setup a managed services business, plan for resources, and run it like a pro download this guide “How to become an MSP in 2009.”
N-able Reaches Out to MSPAlliance Members
Posted September 15th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
The MSPAlliance continues to build technology vendor relationships to help managed service providers evaluate software at discounted costs or no initial cost. The latest deal involves N-able, and it arrives a few weeks after the MSPAlliance and AdventNet announced a somewhat similar relationship.
AdventNet Reaches Out to MSPAlliance Members
Posted September 4th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
AdventNet, which develops the ManageEngine managed services platform, has launched a new pricing program designed for MSPAlliance members. Here are some quick details.
It’s Time to Add Power Management to Your Service Catalogue
Posted July 20th, 2008 by Devanand
A lot of people talk about “going green” — but have you ever done the math to see how power management can assist your company — and your customers? Take a look at this quick example, involving the cost of running 500 PC desktops year-round in California.
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