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Special from MSPmentor’ sister site, TheVARguy.com: The VAR Guy is touring Silicon Valley this week. He met Netscape veterans launching a new company. He visited Trend Micro insiders. He spoke with the CEO of Nimsoft. During more than six hours of meetings, the recession was discussed for about 15 minutes. Fact is, savvy IT businesses aren’t bombing. And they aren’t bogged down in recession talk. Here’s a recap of Day 1 in Silicon Valley. Read More >

Nimsoft CEO Gary Read continues to share reassuring information through his personal blog. In a November 3 entry, Read writes about Nimsoft’s Q3 performance and provides some key year-over-year comparisons. Here’s a sampling of this thoughts.

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After some lengthy business travel, Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (pictured) updated his blog on October 29. In it, he mentions that Nimsoft’s business (focused on corporate IT management as well as managed services) remains strong.

However, Read offered this view of Nimsoft expenses and the economy:

“we’ve decided to watch our costs in some areas. This is not a reflection of actual business which has continued to be very strong (Q3 results announced soon, I promise!) but more a precautionary measure because of everything that all the analysts and experts are telling us. We’ve actually had a very good start to Q4, and the sales forecasts are really strong but, as I say, we cannot ignore all the advice that’s being given that spending will slow, it would be irresponsible of us to do so.”

You can catch Read’s entire blog entry here.

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I just spotted this on The Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology blog:

In a study released Wednesday by the University of San Francisco, Mark Cannice, founder of USF’s Entrepreneurship Program, found that venture capitalists’ confidence is at its lowest level since the university began surveying venture investors in 2004.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean bad news for the managed services industry. Here’s why.

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This blog entry is a bit of a stretch, but stick with me. Novell has acquired Managed Objects, which specializes in “business service management.” The company’s software allows customers to monitor, manage and report on the availability of specific applications and IT systems.

Managed Objects mainly targets corporate IT. But the deal provides Novell a potential path to more aggressively target managed service providers. Here’s how.

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A few months ago, MSPmentor praised several very promising blogs penned by managed service providers, software companies and industry pundits.

Alas, many of those blogs have gone silent. Even worse, they’re still online — allowing everyone to see that they’ve run out of things to say.

I’ll avoid the temptation to list the dead blogs by name. Instead, here are five managed services blogs that continue to move forward with fresh content.

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Forgive me for blowing MSPmentor’s own horn. But I’ve noticed a range of vendors now marketing their IT solutions directly to our MSPmentor 100 companies.

The MSPmentor 100 is an annual survey and research report that identifies the world’s 100 most progressive managed service providers. In recent months, both Nimsoft and TeleHOUSE America have actively pursued — and won — business using the MSPmentor 100 list. Here’s how. Read More >

The last time I visited N-able CEO Gavin Garbutt at the company’s headquarters in Ottawa, he was celebrating N-able landing on Deloitte Canada’s Technology Fast 50 list. This time around, I expect to see Garbutt in New York the week of August 18, where he’ll be meeting with customers and investors. Yes, investors.

Financially speaking, this is an intriguing time for N-able and other managed services platform providers. Here’s why.

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