Managed Service Demand To Increase

A survey from IT consultancy Teneo Group shows 60 percent of corporate IT managers IT budgets are still frozen. They've been frozen in fact, since the height of the recession in 2008, the survey found.

That's the bad news.

The good news is that 20 percent of those surveyed are more optimistic these days.

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Posted by Jabulani Leffall on July 28, 20100 comments


Cutting IN the Middle...ware

One of the opportunities that managed services provides is the ability of IT shops be innovative in a client stack, as well as create conduit-proprietary software or hardware configurations that complement partner products.

A good example of such an undertaking, especially for more of the entrepreneurial and tech-savvy minded MSPs, is middleware. By finding a middlware niche, an MSP can provide a degree of interoperability that supports SMB legacy systems, vendor products and other third-party partners.

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Posted by Jabulani Leffall on July 27, 20100 comments