cloud
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Will N-Able Customers Stay Through Acquisition?
Big news in the MSP world today as well-known industry remote monitoring and management (RMM) player, N-Able, announced in a press release, that it is being acquired by SolarWinds for $120M. It would appear, from the press release that SolarWinds is looking to enhance its already robust product line to gain more traction in [...]
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Intel Hybrid Cloud Partners Left Out to Dry
MSP’s and IT companies often find comfort in large vendor products and solutions. For some it is name recognition, while others it’s that happy feeling they get knowing the company has been in business for many years. Intel is one of those companies that gives you the warm and fuzzies every time they attend [...]
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Do Small Businesses Still need Servers?
As more and more software manufacturers and Line of Business application vendors move to software as a service models, the need for on-premise servers would seem to become less necessary. As an IT salesman for many years, the number one sale I made was for networked servers. This single device allowed offices to share files, [...]
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SMB Nation Conference Back at The Microsoft Campus
The SMB Nation Spring Conference 2013, now in its seventh season, is back on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. The event, which kicks off tomorrow, has an agenda that is clearly focused on integrating cloud and mobility into the MSP business model. Sessions include “Why you should become a CSP (Cloud Services Provider),” [...]
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How will RMM Evolve?
RMM or (Remote Monitoring and Management) has been around for some time, helping IT companies and MSP’s keep an eye on their customer’s vital networks and devices. The RMM solution has helped to define the current standards and made the Managed Services business model what it is today. Most RMM solutions provide a number of [...]
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What Can Cloud Infrastructure as a Service not Do?
It seems that many traditional hardware items can be virtualized or emulated to work in a software or cloud environment. This is great, but if everything was off premise how would the internal network that connects an office to the outside world be protected? Items such as secure firewalls and switches still have a [...]
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Will Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure Offering be able to compete with Amazon?
Microsoft has announced price matching with Amazon for its Windows Azure cloud infrastructure offering, which will have Microsoft partners seeing up to a 33% savings over the current pricing model. This comes as a surprise considering the low cost of Amazon’s cloud offering and Microsoft’s usual unwillingness to heavily discount its services. The move comes [...]
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With PC sales on the Decline Can Ingram Micro Win with HaaS?
Reports of steep declines in PC sales in favor of tablet and mobile devices continue to pour in to mainstream and technology based media outlets. Even so, technology distributor Ingram Micro is jumping into the Hardware as a Service (HaaS) game with their latest announcement. The company, which provides hardware, software, and services [...]
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Low Tech Thieves are a Major IT Security Risk
Much of the news lately has been around high tech security risks, DDoS, attacks, hackers, and personal data breaches. These security issues have reached large and small businesses alike and have wreaked havoc for consumers caught in the middle. A seemingly low-tech threat is surfacing with a recent news story. Vudu, which is a [...]
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Has the Build Your Own Cloud Trend Paid Off?
For a number of years there has been a trend in the MSP and IT community to build out internal cloud solutions. As I have discussed this trend with a number of providers, I have encountered a mix of successful and not so successful ventures. The build your own cloud movement (BYOC) started about 4 [...]
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Zenith Infotech TigerCloud Test Drive released as Company Officers are Barred from India’s Stock Exchange
Zenith Infotech today, in a press release (see below), announced its latest TigerCloud Test Drive solution just as an order was passed in India barring Executives Rajkumar Saraf, Akash Saraf, Devita Saraf, Vijayrani Saraf, as well as two others from accessing or making any buys, sells, or trades on the securities exchange. Zenith Infotech, a [...]
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[Update] “Was not an Outage” ConnectWise Outage Denial of Service Attack to Blame?
(Update) – According to an email received from Jeannine Edwards Director, ConnectWise, LabTech & Quosal Communities clarifying the situation ConnectWise did not experience an outage, instead experienced a DDoS. The Connectwise North American Cloud suffered an outage today that affected a number of its customers. Users took to twitter and facebook looking for updates regarding [...]
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Orlando Xchange Event opened with Controversial Session
CRN reported on the opening Cloud Computing session hosted by Gartner’s Vice President Tiffany Bova at the Xchange Solution Provider 2013 event currently running through March 12th. The session, which had Bova suggesting attendees “Fire all of your Salesforce”, in order to get into the cloud, may be considered by some to be controversial. [...]
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Is CSP the new MSP?
MSP or “Managed Service Provider” has been around for some time now and has become “the” term to use for IT companies, replacing the outdated term VAR or “Value Added Reseller.” Recently there has been a shift in the way IT businesses, media outlets, and industry experts describe IT companies. Names such as IT Solution [...]
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Collaborating in the Cloud
How Cloud Technology Helps Marketing Professionals Maximize Their Time and Performance by Gina Smith I can still remember the good old days working in marketing and public relations. There was no such thing as a “personal” schedule. My office schedule was set according to my clients needs. Times have drastically changed. Gone are the days [...]
