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If Day One of the MSP Summit at the IBM Edge 2013 conference was all about the inevitability of the services-driven IT market, Day Two was about helping traditional resellers and integrators get there. Speakers from IBM and IBM ...
Day One of the Managed Service Provider (MSP) Summit at the IBM Edge Conference was all about business transformation, market forces and the inevitability of the cloud computing model. While speakers cautioned that the transition from traditional system integrator and ...
A next-generation MSP offers cloud services that enable their individual customers to differentiate themselves from their competitors. We recently held a MSP and ISV roundtable in Chicago, asking a few of our current partners to talk about their business requirements ...
First, there are five trends of which MSPs should be aware: Price wars among the big giants: Rackspace, Amazon, Microsoft – they’re killing the price points out there today. They want to be a dominant gorilla in the cloud-provider market ...
The MSP space is crowded now; traditional IT services like backup and recovery are becoming a commoditized market. Next generation MSPs differentiate from the rest, beyond IT cost reduction and better systems management. In a world where we expect things ...
The next-generation MSP is business-focused, not IT focused. This means: in order to counter MSP commoditization, a next-gen MSP differentiates itself and understands how to sell the front office: the CMO, CFO, the procurement officer, the supply-chain officer. These are ...
IBM today accelerated its strategy to drive big data and cloud computing adoption with the addition of new Power Systems ...
Cobalt Iron, a new entry in the data protection market, seeks to give customers the flexibility to mix and match ...
By Craig Gunderson (right), President and CEO, Oxford Networks & Ed Abrams (left), IBM VP of Global Midmarket Business. As more and more small and midsize businesses turn to managed service providers and the cloud to handle routine IT needs, ...
IBM today launched new initiatives for managed service providers (MSPs) with the goal of helping this emerging class of cloud ...
In today’s always-on, hyper-connected world, technology has become a critical lynchpin for business success. Increasingly, businesses of all sizes view technology as an essential to improving customer engagement, raising employee productivity, and creating innovation and differentiation—all vital ingredients for building ...