As the new year approaches, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are gearing up to face a slew of challenges brought about by rapid technological advancements and shifting market dynamics.
The workshop agenda includes sessions on a variety of pertinent topics.
Channel partners agree that Google Cloud’s blockbuster $32 billion acquisition of security star Wiz will put pressure on Microsoft. However, solution providers have mixed views as to how much new cloud security market share Google can capture.
Google’s historic $32 billion acquisition of security superstar Wiz will boost Google Cloud’s market competition against its cloud cybersecurity rivals Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, according to channel partners.
Updated: Oct 21, 2024
MSPX has teamed up with members of The ASCII Group to find out which strategies are working best to help grow their MSP businesses. Here, six industry leaders share the marketing tactics, strategic partnerships, and unique value propositions that have been most effective for them.
Solution providers CEOs share with CRN what they feel are the most important things they need from their vendor partners as a way for those vendors, their partners and their end-user customers to succeed in an increasingly complex world.
Vendors depend heavily on their solution provider and MSP partners to take their hardware, software and services to end-user customers, deploy those technologies and provide the necessary support.
Last year was a good year for MSP growth. The new MSP Success Annual Reporting & Predictions Survey finds that a whopping 77% of MSPs increased their revenue in 2023.
David Stinner, president and founder of USitek, an MSP in the Buffalo-Niagara, New York area, finds the best marketing activity to drive growth has been networking— “building long-term relationships with people before they become prospects.
When Alan Weinberger founded the ASCII Group Inc. four decades ago, he was guided by the same principle that years earlier had led him to law school – the pursuit of justice.
Much like citizens who turn to the judicial system, small, independent PC resellers needed someone to watch out for them.
The ASCII Edge MSP event series stopped in Toronto this week, hosting managed service and IT solution providers at the Sheraton Centre Toronto on August 30-31. It was the seventh location on The ASCII Group’s 2023 two-day, multicity conference tour, which includes more than 20 strategy sessions covering operations, technical, leadership, marketing, and sales topics.
THE METAVERSE is still in its infancy, but experts say it is fast becoming a new target for cyberattacks. David Stinner, president and founder of USitek, an IT solutions provider in Tonawanda, N.Y., is concerned companies are not paying enough attention to metaverse security risks as they explore use cases.
‘This is a game-changer for HPE and GreenLake,’ says US itek President David Stinner. ‘HPE has found a vendor who is highly integrated with meeting all the needs of both enterprises and MSP clients. This makes HPE interesting as an MSP vendor.
