To complement some of the stories that I have written lately about managed service providers (MSPs), I am one of the keynoters at the Managed Services Providers annual conference in San Jose this week that is hosted by the MSP Alliance. You can see the entire program here, and download my slides here.
Locking Down Endpoint Apps is the title of my latest podcast for Ziff’s ITLink site. With data leakage and malware being number one problems today, Brian Gladstein, director of product marketing for Bit9, talks about it and ways you can protect your network.
We talk to T.M. Ravi, CEO, Mimosa Systems about email archiving partnering opportunities. E-mail systems are not designed for long-term storage and retrieval, but e-mail is an asset that needs to be archivable and discoverable, in another in our series of podcasts for Ziff’s IT Link community site.
You can listen to the podcast here.
When your reputation precedes you. We talk with Ratepoint’s CEO Neal Crieghton about reputation management and how online businesses can establish their reputations and have consumers rate their service offerings.
You can download the podcast here, another in the series for Ziff’s ITLink community site.
Managed Service Providers are becoming more noticeable and credible in handling network and IT infrastructure tasks and more popular because of smaller IT staffs. Thanks to cheap Internet bandwidth, regulations dictating more stringent backup and offsite data recovery procedures, and acquisitions of small MSPs by firms like Verizon, BT and IBM, opportunities abound for value-added resellers looking to expand into managed services. So how do you staff up to anticipate this increase in business? Here are some guidelines and questions to address as you look around for hiring the right engineering talent as your organization grows.
Read the entire story that ran today on SearchSecurityChannel.com.
Business, especially big ones, began outsourcing information technology operations nearly a decade ago. But compared with the earliest efforts, corporate IT outsourcing is far more precisely calibrated. The vendors supplying this new generation of outsourcing services are called managed service providers, or M.S.P.’s. They come in all shapes and sizes, from I.B.M. down.
You can read the entire story here in today’s New York Times (registration may be required).
If you are a Microsoft ISV, VAR or systems integrator partner, you should be thinking about gaining expertise in five critical technologies. These are the ones that Microsoft is banking on for many future offerings, and these five will play an increasingly bigger role in your own products and services. The five include .Net, Live services, endpoint security, SharePoint, and Exchange.
The story ran this week in eWeek print here.
I talk to Rich Bader, the CEO of Easystreet Online Services in Portland, Ore. about what it takes to run a managed services data center in my latest series of podcasts for Ziff’s IT Link. Bader has been involved in the computing industry, helping to launch the add-on card business for Intel way back in the go-go years of the early 1980s.
In my latest series of podcasts for Ziff’s ITLink site, I talk to John Powell, VP of Global Channels for MSP Virtela. The title of the chat is “When long distance is the best thing to being there” and we discuss ways that VARs and integrators can get involved in adding value to long-haul connectivity and bandwidth.
Managed service providers (MSPs) are becoming more important these days: a combination of more bandwidth for less money, increasing Internet integration with existing applications, and more complex compliance regulations requiring offsite storage have created a boom time for managed applications and services.
Clearly, the pool of managed applications will continue to widen to these other IT infrastructure components. So we’ve put together a short guide to help you choosing the right MSP partner. Ask them these five questions before you make any decisions.
You can read the entire story published today in CIOUpdate.com.