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Regulatory Compliance Services
'Compliance as a service': How to stay out of hot water
Before leaping into IT compliance services, MSPs must make sure they're following best practices. Some mistakes could potentially cost them their businesses. Continue Reading
Cloud marketplaces: Can channel partners make money?
Channel partners can take advantage of many cloud marketplace options as part of their go-to-market strategies. Here's what you need to know to get started. Continue Reading
Current on cloud and managed services? Take the quiz
There's always a lot happening in the cloud and managed services sector. Take this new quiz to see if you're up to speed on the latest regulatory, vendor relations and market development trends. Continue Reading
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Channel marketing plan a must for partners
A well-honed marketing plan provides insight into who your customers are, what they need and how you can help them with what you know and what you sell, Jennifer Anaya writes. Continue Reading
Channel partner marketing: Offloading the work to specialists
Channel partners, who have long bemoaned the challenges of marketing themselves, turn to outside specialists for help optimizing their website design and content. Continue Reading
Five MSP marketing tactics to boost growth
Scott Lindars, a former Citrix senior alliance marketing manager and now director of technology markets at Merit Mile, an interactive agency in Boca Raton, Fla., outlined MSP marketing tactics at ...Continue Reading
application rationalization (AR)
Application rationalization is the process of identifying which business applications should be kept, replaced, retired or consolidated across an organization to improve business operations.Continue Reading
Moving clients to a hybrid cloud model
Businesses increasingly see the value of moving to a hybrid cloud model, with more flexibility, scalability and data deployment options being just a few of the potential benefits. However, hybrid cloud environments can pose technical, organizational...Continue Reading
BPM platforms unlock channel partner opportunities
Channel partners say business process management offers greater opportunity today in light of lower BPM platform costs and increased awareness of what the tools can accomplish.Continue Reading
Retail health clinics set to emerge as channel partner market
Healthcare-oriented channel partners should keep tabs on the emerging retail health clinic space, which could harbor systems integration and consulting opportunities.Continue Reading
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IT migration case study: Partner helps downsize data center
HighVail, an IT consulting and professional services firm, helped Empire Life downsize its data center, migrate business applications and create a new disaster recovery site.Continue Reading
Marketing on the cheap: Pointers for channel partners
Channel partners can minimize their marketing expenditures by focusing on their existing customers, according to author Joseph Jaffe.Continue Reading
Hammering out an MSP sales and marketing plan
Chances are you didn't get into managed services because of a passion for sales and marketing. Unfortunately, if your goal is to scale up your managed service provider, or MSP, business, you're going to need much more than customer referrals to ...Continue Reading
Cybersecurity services: MSPs look to expand portfolios
MSPs are pushing beyond traditional services such as patch and firewall management as they look to stand out from other companies offering managed IT security services.Continue Reading
Cloud management tool strategies: Channel weighs hybrid options
Automation is a must for managing a hybrid cloud environment. Channel partners are tapping commercially available products and homegrown capabilities to get the job done.Continue Reading