Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) continues to invest in the Intel Hybrid Cloud strategy, which allows MSPs to promote server software and services on a pay-as-you-go basis to customers. But the really interesting part of the Intel Hybrid Cloud effort involves Intel AppUp — a small business service catalog that includes a growing portfolio of applications that MSPs can offer to their end-customers.
The MSPmentor team is just about ready to unplug for the weekend. Of course, we’ll be around if any big news — or rumors — hit our inbox. But in the meantime here are seven managed services blogs and MSP news stories that MSPmentor’s editorial team didn’t have a chance to write for the week ending Friday, January 13, 2012.
At ConnectWise’s IT Nation conference yesterday, the MSPmentor team met privately with a range of managed services and channel influencers. So what are we hearing during the briefings and meetings? And what can attendees expect from ConnectWise CEO Arnie Bellini’s keynote later this morning? Here’s the chatter.
Roughly 1,100 MSPs and VARs will gather later this week at ConnectWise IT Nation (formerly ConnectWise Partner Summit). The conference (Nov. 4-6, Orlando) also serves as a magnet for several related events hosted by CharTec, HTG Peer Groups, LabTech Software, Level Platforms and TruMethods. No doubt, attendees will hear a lot of themes related to cloud computing, the last mile of IT and managing the modern office for SMBs. Here are 35 key questions MSPmentor plans to raise during the conference.
After a one-week hiatus, MSPmentor’s most-read weekly entry is back. And I promise: This entry is worth reading — especially for those who are good at reading between the lines in the managed services market. So here we go: The seven managed services blog entries we didn’t have time to write for the week ending October 22, 2010.
